Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern Award Doc – Flughafenbereich 11/VII Landsberg, Luftgau VII, 1944

An original German Verleihungsurkunde zum Kriegsverdienstkreuz 2. Klasse mit Schwertern (Award Certificate for the War Merit Cross 2nd Class with Swords), issued to Unteroffizier Johannes Jütten, serving with Kdo. Fl.H. Ber. 11/VII, Landsberg (Kommando Flughafenbereich 11/VII Landsberg).

The certificate is dated 11. April 1944 and was issued in München. It bears the additional purple designation of the Kommandierender General und Befehlshaber im Luftgau VII (Commanding General and Commander of Luftgau VII), together with the stamped signature of General der Flakartillerie Emil Zenetti (1883–1945).

Zenetti commanded Luftgau VII from July 1938 until September 1944. A career artillery officer who transferred to the Luftwaffe in 1934, he held one of the senior regional command appointments responsible for the Luftwaffe’s organisation and administration in southern Germany.

Among his decorations were the Eisernes Kreuz 1. und 2. Klasse (1914), the Bayerischer Militärverdienstorden IV. Klasse mit Schwertern und der Krone, and both classes of the Kriegsverdienstkreuz mit Schwertern. He subsequently received the prestigious Ritterkreuz des Kriegsverdienstkreuzes mit Schwertern on 26 March 1945.

Condition

Shows age-related toning and light handling wear. A pronounced horizontal fold runs across the centre, with some additional creasing. Two punched holes are present along the left margin.