Oldenburg, Grand Duchy. A Friedrich August Cross, I Class Auction Archive KLASSE 1939” and a maker’s

KLASSE 1939” and a maker’s mark of “ERNST L

indicating Gau level personnel

in Russia during Operation Barbarossa

named to SS-Oberscharführer Franz Wiener of the Sicherheitspolizei

Peter Nolasco in the city of Barcelona

Oldenburg, Grand Duchy. A Friedrich August Cross, I Class Auction Archive KLASSE 1939” and a maker’s(Friedrich August Kreuz, I. Klasse). Instituted 24 September 1914 by Grand Duke Friedrich August. (1914 1918 issue). Constructed of blackened magnetic iron, consisting of a Cross Patte with its arms joined through the quadrants by a circular laurel leaf wreath, the obverse bearing a central monogram of Grand Duke Friedrich August, the six oclock arm bearing an institution date of 1914, the twelve oclock arm bearing a royal crown, the reverse with a