German Awards - Rossbach Cross 1. That is sick

Freikorps Rossbach was created by order of the governor of the fortress of Graudenz/West Prussia in November 1918 by Gerhard Rossbach. The Rossbach Cross was established in 2 classes. 1st class was the nodal cross, and 2nd class was the cross on the ribbon. I do not know anything about the requirements for awarding, as well as the exact date of foundation. Whether temporary affiliation with the volunteer corps, position or bravery in combat was used to distinguish classes is anyone's guess. The Rossbach volunteer machine gun company was soon renamed the Rossbach assault detachment and was used in the border guard east of Strassbueg (West Prussia). The slogan of the freikor was: "We can be given." In early 1919, the assault detachment was accepted into the pro-naval Reichswehr as the 37th Jaeger battalion. In October 1919, a volunteer corps of about 1,000 people, contrary to the orders of the High Command of the Ground Forces (OHL), crossed the Littauen to Latvia. There they supported the Volunteer Russian Western Army and the Iron Division on the Dune Front and at the end of 1919 covered the retreat of the Baltic troops. In 1920, Freikorps was officially disbanded and expelled from the Reichswehr for rebellion. He continued to exist underground. During the Kappovsky putsch, Rossbach mobilized his troops and gathered them in Gerries at Schwerin. The armed Reichswehr was subordinate to the volunteer corps of the 9th Reichswehr brigade under the command of Major General von Lettov-Forbeck. The locations were first Mecklenburg, and from April 1920 the Ruhr. In May 1920, the Volunteer Corps was again disbanded. Former Freikor members organized into the Rossbach Workers' Community. In 1921, in the 3rd Polish uprising, as a volunteer detachment of Silesia, parts of Freikor participated in battles in Upper Silesia. The crosses, fully gilded, are replicas.
The original crosses have only gilded deer trophies. The cruciform shoulders, as well as the middle shield, are silver-plated.

Eight-pointed cross made of silver-plated non-ferrous metal. The cross-shaped brackets of the front are burgundy silver and enameled in white. In the center is an embossed round central shield. Between the cross sleeves is a correspondingly gilded deer trophy with horns (a distinctive sign of jaeger battalions). The back side is smooth and silver plated with a perpendicular pin.

Front side:

• The co-embossed central shield with a smooth border is enameled with black.
In the
• center is a large, decorated letter - R -. The vertical bar is central with a gap.
• The relief trophies between the cross sleeves are plastic and gilded.

Downside:

• The back is smooth and silver-plated. The trophies are gilded.
• Vertically - a pin with a reciprocal hook. (The needle system was replaced here)