Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, by Josef Feix & Sons Archive on period faded green ribbon

on period faded green ribbon

he had been promoted to Lieutenant

naming on BWM is inverted with second initial on "J" incorrect (should be "G")

the bottom bearing a sickle and hammer

a 1935 NSDFBSt Wuppertal-Elberfeld roll call booklet

Germany, Kriegsmarine. A Destroyer War Badge, by Josef Feix & Sons Archive on period faded green ribbon(Zerstrerkriegsabzeichen). Instituted June 4th, 1940. (mid to late war manufacture). A textbook example by this maker, constructed of gilded and silvered zink, the obverse consisting of an oval oak leaf wreath, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, topped by a Heer style German national eagle clutching a mobile swastika, surrounding a central depiction of a destroyer cutting through waves, the reverse with a crimped ball hinge, straight horizontal