Austria Hungary Germany WWI Cap Badge Stickpin Field Marshal Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler

Austro-Hungarian Empire - Imperial Germany: 
Patriotic badge, in stickpin format, with the 
portrait of the German Generalfeldmarschall
Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler (Field Marshal 
Gottlieb Count of Haeseler).
Haeseler was born in Potsdam. He entered 
the Prussian Army as Lieutenant in 1853 
and became aide-de-camp of Prince Frederick 
Charles of Prussia in 1860. He served in the 
Danish-Prussian War (1864), the Germnan 
Civil War (1866), and the Franco-Prussian War 
(1870–71). In the period 1890-1903 he was 
General of the Cavalry and head of the XVI 
Army Corps in Metz. In 1905 he received the 
rank of a Generalfeldmarschall. He became a 
member of the Prussian House of Lords in 
1903. He died in 1919.
These badges were issued for fund raising 
purposes in order to support the war effort. 
The badge is rare.

WW1 1914 1918

Item 100% original 

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