Talk:House Order of Hohenzollern
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[edit] Swords on German orders
Someone recently changed this page to reinsert this sentence, which I had deleted when I rewrote the article: "It was both a military and a civil award, with the addition of crossed swords to indicate a military award. It could only be awarded to commissioned officers (or civilians of approximately equivalent status)."
Crossed swords on the House Order of Hohenzollern did not "indicate a military award"; crossed swords indicated a wartime or combat award. This was not just the case with the House Order of Hohenzollern but also with most other Imperial German decorations (as well as the orders of a number of other European countries). Military officers routinely received orders without swords for peacetime merit. Take a look at the 1914 Prussian Army ranklist and one will see, for example, at least a dozen officers in Füsilier-Regiment Nr. 40, the regiment of the former Hohenzollern principalities, who have the Princely House Order of Hohenzollern without swords. And one will find few officers above the rank of captain who do not have a Prussian Order of the Red Eagle or Crown Order, or both, without swords. These were commonly given as peacetime long service awards.
12.145.108.11 01:08, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
