Franco was demoted from the first to the twenty-fourth on the list of brigadiers
In 1935 he was promoted to SS-Brigadeführer and in 1937 to SS-Gruppenführer
the Wehrmacht driver’s license
the obverse with a silver gilt eight-pointed star
two of which were overseas
Germany, Imperial. A Pair Of Hanseatic Crosses Hold Franco was demoted from the(Hanseatenkreuze). A pair of Hanseatic Crosses, including: 1. A Hamburg issued decoration, constructed of silvered copper with enamels, on loop for suspension from its period original ribbon, consisting of a Cross Patte, the obverse with red enameled arms and a central red enameled medallion bearing a silvered Hamburg coat of arms, the reverse bearing a central raised inscription of FR VERDIENST IM KRIEGE 1914 (FOR MERIT IN WAR 1914), unmarked,