Austria Starhemberg Vogel Heimwehr Medal of Honor for the Home Guard 1934 by Gnad

AUSTRIA: Medal of Honor of Von Starhemberg's 
Heimwehr (Home Guard Forces) for distinguished 
services during the suppression of the Socialist 
and Communist uprising in Vienna in Feb. 1934.
In the form of an Eagle, dated II 1934 (February 
1934).
Maker marked: H.GNAD and also marked GES. 
GESCH (protected design) on the reverse.
Ernst Rüdiger, Prince von Starhemberg (1899-
1956), was the leader of the Heimwehr,  a right 
wing nationalist, paramilitary group operating 
within Austria during the 1920s and 1930s 
(period of the 1st Austrian Republic). 
The Heimwehr was very similar in methods, 
organization, and ideology to Germany's Freikorps.
It played a significant part in the suppression of 
the July Revolt of 1927 and of the Communist 
uprising in Vienna in 1934.
This is a bronze and most likely a posterior made 
example of inferior quality and it is priced 
accordingly.


FULL SIZE

post WW1 1918 - 1938

Posterior Item - ribbon original 

Condition as on the photos
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