This is an original Kriegsmarine Auxiliary Cruiser Badge by C.E.Juncker. The front features an oval oak leaf wreath with a Kriegsmarine eagle holding a mobile swastika, encircling a central motif of a Viking longship traversing the Northern Hemisphere.
This is an original Kriegsmarine Auxiliary Cruiser Badge by C.E.Juncker. The front features an oval oak leaf wreath with a Kriegsmarine eagle holding a mobile swastika, encircling a central motif of a Viking longship traversing the Northern Hemisphere.
Reverse image of a Kriegsmarine Auxiliary Cruiser Badge by C.E. Juncker.
Reverse image of a Kriegsmarine Auxiliary Cruiser Badge by C.E. Juncker.

Kriegsmarine Auxiliary Cruiser Badge By C.E. Juncker

This is an original Kriegsmarine Auxiliary Cruiser Badge by C.E. Juncker (Kriegsabzeichen für Hilfskreuzer), constructed in tombak. The front features an oval oak leaf wreath with a Kriegsmarine eagle holding a mobile swastika, encircling a central motif of a Viking longship traversing the Northern Hemisphere. On the reverse, there is a block-style hinge banjo pin and a flat wire catch soldered directly to the badge; it is unmarked but attributed to C.E. Juncker. The badge has no damage or repairs in very good condition.

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Kriegsmarine Auxilary Cruiser Badge

The Auxiliary Cruiser War Badge (Kriegsabzeichen für Hilfskreuzer) was a WW2 German decoration awarded to officers and men of the Kriegsmarine for service on Auxilary Cruisers or supply ships.  The award was instituted on 24.4.1941 by Grand Admiral Erich Raeder.

Designed by Wilhelm Ernst Peekhaus in Berlin, the award featured a Viking longship sailing over the northern hemisphere of the globe surrounded by a laurel wreath of oak leaves.  At the apex of the badge was a German Eagle clutching a swastika.  The wreath, eagle, and ship were in gilt and the globe area gray coloured. Versions were produced in bronze and later in zinc.

A special presentation version, featuring 15 small diamonds inlaid on the swastika, was presented in January 1942 by Grand Admiral Raeder to Kapitän zur See Bernhard Rogge, commander of the successful German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis.

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