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District Administrator FRIEDRICH VON ALTEN (Hirschberg, Silesia) - autograph

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Award certificate for the Hindenburg Cross 1914-1918.

Issued in 1935 in Hirschberg in the Riesengebirge (Silesia).

Ink signature from District Administrator FRIEDRICH VON ALTEN.

From 1933 to 1944 he was district administrator in Silesia, Sudetenland and Neumark, namely in Groß Strelitz (1933/34), Hirschberg (1933–1937), Aussig (1938/39, temporary) and Landsberg (1937–1944) .

When he was to be questioned or arrested by the Secret State Police on the day of the assassination attempt on July 20, 1944, he committed suicide.

He was the holder of the following awards:

  • Iron Cross 2nd and 1st class
  • Wound badge
  • Oldenburg Friedrich-August-Cross 2nd and 1st class
  • Silesian probation badge 2nd and 1st class
  • Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John

The certificate is folded in the middle and slightly torn at the bottom at the edge.

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