GERMAN WWII LUFTWAFFE KNIGHTS CROSS WINNERS PRIVATE PRESENTATION DOCUMENT.

A beautifully illuminated document presented to Luftwaffe Knights Cross winner Stefan Frohlich who became a Luftwaffe General. The illuminated document placed inside a hand tooled leather folder, the document held in place by a long strip of bullion lace with two golden tassels. To the front cover of the inner document an image of the town of Hainburg am der Donau (Hainburg on the river Danube) which is 12 kilometres west of the Slovakian capital Bratislava and 43 kilometres east of the capital of Austria, Vienna, accompanied by the dates ‘1869 1918 1908 1943’, the significance of these dates is unknown to us, the artwork is absolutely magnificent. To the inside of the vellum document the central feature is the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross, to each corner is either an outstretched winged eagle and swastika or a down swept winged eagle and swastika with laurel leaves surrounding the Knights Cross. To the right hand side of the inner section of the document is the presentation script where the comrades of the former officers Pioneer School at Hainburg is congratulating General Der Flieger Stefan Frohlich on the award of the Knights Cross of the Iron Cross, Frohlich was obviously a former member of the school. Awarded Vienna October 1943, pen signed by two unidentified officials at the school. Stefan Frohlich born in Austria, at the age of 15 enlisted in the Austro Hungarian Army, served in the Pioneer Cadet School in WWI, in pilot training in Austria 1933 and became the Commandant of a new established flying school regiment, he transferred to the Luftwaffe and during WWII served on all major fronts eventually retiring on April 30th 1945, he received the Knights Cross on July 4th 1940 as a General Major and Commander of Kampf Geschwader 76, died 2nd October 1978 age 88 in Duisburg, Germany.

Code: 81855