(Allgemeines Sturmabzeichen)

Date Instituted

1 January 1940

Requirements

* Participation in three infantry or armored assaults
* Participation in three infantry or armored indirect assaults
* Having been wounded while fulfilling the above requirements
* Having earned an award while fulfilling the above requirements
* Not being eligible for the Infantry Assault Badge (i.e. this award was for non-infantry soldiers)

Number Awarded

?

Award Document

Unteroffizier Karl Auer

Known makers/markings

FO, G.B., FRANK & REIF

Estimated price (2009)

€100-200


SS-Standartenführer Karl Ullrich

(Courtesy of Anton)

Gefreiter with General Assault Badge

(Courtesy of Josef Fregosi)

Leutnant from Panzergrenadier-Division Großdeutschland

(Courtesy of Bundesarchiv/Wikimedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3 0 Germany)

Comments

From 6 June 1943 this award was also available in the grades 25, 50, 75 and 100 assaults.

It was designed by Ernst Peekhaus.

Photo courtesy of N & T Global Trading & The Ruptured Duck

Sources used

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