(Marinebrigade Ehrhardt Ärmelabzeichen). Constructed of a silvered metal alloy, the obverse consisting of an oval rope wreath, with a central viking longship cutting through waves, above an inscription of “EHRHARDT” in Fraktur script, with four sets of dual attachment holes, unmarked, measuring 36 mm (w) x 54 mm (h), in near extremely fine condition.
Footnote: Established on 17 February 1919, the Ehrhardt Naval Brigade was an armed branch of the Freikorps established by former Imperial Navy Korvettenkapitän Hermann Ehrhardt. It assisted in crushing the Bavarian Soviet Republic and later protected ethnic German communities in Upper Silesia. In March 1920, the group participated in the failed Kapp Putsch, and was subsequently disbanded in a crackdown on subversive paramilitaries. Ehrhardt himself later formed a clandestine group that committed assassinations of Weimar politicians in an effort to overthrow the state.