Germany, Weimar Republic. A Freikorps Insignia United Republic of Sorgenfrey

Sorgenfrey

circumscribed “Für verdienstliche tätigkeit aud dem Gebiete des Feuerwehr und Rettungswesens” (German- for meritorious service in fire fighting and rescue service)

Awards are controlled by a Council of eminent persons

the bands show a repeating horizontally embossed oak-leaf pattern and present both hanger suspension rings intact

marked “Wernstein of Jena” and “DRGM 36269” on the reverse

Germany, Weimar Republic. A Freikorps Insignia United Republic of Sorgenfrey(Freikorps Abzeichen). Constructed of blackened and silvered bronze, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel wreath, with a raised central letter L surrounded by oak leaves, with four sets of dual holes for sew on attachment, unmarked, measuring 45 mm in diameter, in better than very fine condition.