Germany, Luftwaffe. A 1940 Air War School Klotzsche Distinguished Student Trophy To Unteroffizier Werner Reinicke Auction Archive Uxbridge on July 2nd

Uxbridge on July 2nd

It was awarded in four classes: 1st Class with a gold gilt laurel wreath on the ribbon

with a dedication to “HEINRICH LÜCKE” in recognition of his 25 years of service with Deutsche Reichsbahn (German Reich Railways)

(thus the abbreviated name "Sidcot" and was used by the British

with original breast ribbon on a typical Spanish horizontal hanger with pinback

Germany, Luftwaffe. A 1940 Air War School Klotzsche Distinguished Student Trophy To Unteroffizier Werner Reinicke Auction Archive Uxbridge on July 2nd(Luftkriegschule Pokal). Constructed of two pieces of pewter, consisting of a chalice bearing a carefully engraved Luftwaffe eagle clutching a mobile swastika, topped by a domed lid bearing a raised and wreathed mobile swastika, with the edge circumscribed by an engraved inscription of "NICHT EINZELLEISTUNG SONDERN GEMEINSCHAFTSLEISTUNG" (NOT INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE, BUT COMMUNITY PERFORMANCE), with the signature of Reichsmarschall Hermann Gring,