maker marked “Wächtler & Lange
He signed his Attestation Paper on May 21
cockade in silvered zinc with a black painted base and red painted centre
location identified
presumably because no picture of Hauser in uniform with the award exists as he received it so close to the end of the war
Germany, Luftwaffe. A Pilot’s Badge, By Gebrüder Wegerhoff Auction maker marked “Wächtler & Lange(Flugzeugfhrerabzeichen). Instituted on August 12, 1935. (Issued 1936 1945). An early period badge constructed of silvered and patinated nickel silver, consisting of an oak and laurel wreath, bearing a Luftwaffe eagle clutching a hand filed mobile swastika, the reverse plain with a vertical pinback, and a barrel hinge unique to this maker, and a flat wire catch, marked GWL for Gebrder Wegerhoff, Ldenscheid on the reverse, measuring 63. 2 mm (w) x 52.