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    Title

  • Black wound badge awarded to Alfred Kahn

    • Other Title(s)

  • Verwundetenabzeichen

  • Physical Description

    1 Medal : steel ; 1.7" x 1.5" (5 cm x 4 cm)

  • Date

    circa 1918

  • Summary

    Oval blackened steel badge with magnetic core; the face stippled with a helmet imposed on crossed swords within a laurel wreath border; the reverse plain with pin for wear.

  • Subject

    Military decorations, Germany; World War, 1914-1918

  • Genre

    Medals

  • Medium

    Medals

  • Part Of

    Carol Kahn Strauss family collection., AR 25211

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

The wound badge was instituted on 3 March 1918 in three grades, black for one or two wounds, silver for three or four wounds and gold for five or more wounds.

Alfred Kahn (1899-1983) and his brother Walter served in the German Army during World War I. Alfred Kahn studied law at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, and he earned a law degree from the University of Erlangen in 1930. Alfred’s nascent legal career was cut short after the Nazi party took power in 1933. In 1938, he and his wife Lotte née Landau (1912-2004) immigrated via Holland to the United States and settled in New York City. Alfred and Lotte Kahn’s son Steve was born in 1940 and their daughter Carol in 1944. Alfred established a law practice specializing in restitution claims and Lotte made a name for herself as a stockbroker.

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Citation

Black wound badge awarded to Alfred Kahn, Leo Baeck Institute, 2013.058.