(Abzeichen für Freiballonführer)

Date Instituted

?

Requirements

Awarded to licensed free balloon pilots (NSFK members).

Number awarded

?

Estimated price (2009)

€ 1.500

Known makers/markings

231240

Comments

It was first awarded in cloth and later in metal.


Photo courtesy of Klaus

Sources used

Christopher Ailsby - A collectors guide to the Luftwaffe
Christopher Ailsby - World War 2 German medals and political awards
John R. Angolia - For Führer and Fatherland: Political & Civil awards of the Third Reich
David Littlejohn - Orders, decorations, medals and badges of the Third Reich
Detlev Niemann - Price Guide Germany 1871-1945 (2009)