Austria Starhemberg Vogel Heimwehr Silver Medal of Honor for the Home Guard 1934 with July Clasp by Gnad

AUSTRIA: Silver Medal of Honor of Von 
Starhemberg's Heimwehr (Home Guard Forces) 
with "July Clasp".
The medal was awarded 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 (for protected design) on the reverse.
The "July Clasp", featuring a helmet and crossed 
swords was awarded to members of the Heimwehr 
who took part in the successful suppression of 
the Austrian National Socialist coup, following the 
assassination of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss on 
25 Jul. 1934.
The clasp is scarce.
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.
A scarce genuine example of a heavily copied 
medal with it's even more scarce clasp.

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post WW1 1918 - 1938

Item 100% original - ribbon, clasp original 

Condition as on the photos
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