Carpathian Corps badge
The Carpathian badge was an officially approved commemorative hat badge of the German army during the First World War . It was issued from solid silver for officers. For crew ranks it was made of hollow aluminum. It represented deer antlers backed with green fir green, in the middle was a double-edged sword behind the slightly curved inscription: "Karpathenkorps". It was worn between the two cap corks . The members of the Carpathian Corps usually wore it . The Carpathian badge was allowed to be worn by all soldiers who had participated for two months in the fighting in the Carpathian Mountains from August 1916 to July 1917 . A competition was held in the corps for the design, Charles I selected the above badge from the proposals. It was approved by Charles I as a special badge for the Austrian troops on December 17, 1916. On February 1, 1917, it was approved as a memorial by King Ludwig III for the German troops.
literature
- Jörg Nimmergut: German medals and decorations until 1945, Volume 2: Limburg-Reuss, Central Office for Scientific Religious Studies, Munich 1997