Germany, Heer. A Hungarian Merit Order Award Document to Lieutenant Colonel Hans-Ludwig Müller

A certificate, measuring 211x298mm, extremely fine condition with minimal creasing, two punched holes, and another four small holes in the upper left corner. It states that Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) Hans-Ludwig Müller has been approved to accept the Commander’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Kingdom of Hungary. The document is dated to Berchtesgaden (Bavaria) on October 19, 1938 and carries a facsimile of A.H.

Footnote: Hans-Ludwig Müller was born in 1893 in Mannheim, southwest Germany. He joined the German army in 1912 and made Lieutenant by early 1914. In 1917 he was promoted to Oberleutnant (Senior Lieutenant). Between the wars he joined the police force in Berlin. Müller rejoined the army in 1935. He was promoted to Oberstleutnant (Lieutenant Colonel) in 1936, to Oberst (Colonel) in 1939, and to Generalmajor (Major General) in 1942. Müller commanded various Signal units, most notably the Army Signals Regiment 512, and was stationed in Belgium and Northern France between 1940 and 1944. However, at the end of the war he was redeployed to Latvia where he was taken prisoner by the Russians. He was released and returned home in 1955. Müller died in 1970. During his military career he was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd and 1st Class, and the War Merit Cross 2nd and 1st Class with Swords.