103188 | GERMANY. Generalleutnant Erich Ludendorff silver Medal.

103188  |  GERMANY. Generalleutnant Erich Ludendorff silver Medal. Issued 1914. World War I series: "Germany's unshakable will" (33mm, 12h). By Ludwig Christian Lauer in Nürnberg.

 

GENERALLEUTNANT LUDENDORFF, uniformed bust facing slightly right // MIT DEM UNERSCHÜTTERLICHEN WILLEN DURCHZUHALTEN UND DEM FESTEN GLAUBEN AN DEUTSCHLANDS ZUKUNFT! (with the unshakeable will to persist and the firm faith in Germany's future), downward sword dividing date (19 14), partially within oak wreath.

 

Zetzmann 2045. PCGS SP-62. Exceptionally brilliant and prooflike, with a mostly argent nature near the center and a peripheral ring of vibrant iridescence.

 

One of the leading German military figures of World War I, Ludendorff was instrumental in the early victories at the Battles of Liège and Tannenberg. Later, he was appointed as First Quartermaster General of the German General Staff in 1916, which essentially set up a military dictatorship (under the command of Ludendorff, Paul von Hindenburg, and Kaiser Wilhelm II) until the end of the war and the dissolution of the German Empire.

 

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