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

AUSTRIA: Silver 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.
A scarce genuine example of a heavily copied 
medal.

FULL SIZE

post WW1 1918 - 1938

Item 100% original - ribbon original 

Condition as on the photos
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