GOETZ: K-552 Flight of the Condor

cacheman · January 21, 2005 2:25PM

K-552 FIRST NON-STOP FLIGHT OF THE AIRPLANE CONDOR, 1938, Cast AE, 97mm, Edge-punch “KgoeTz”, RRR, Choice AU.

Commemorating the flight of August 12-14, 1938. Obverse shows Condor over the Atlantic ocean with the rim inscription “Berlin-New York in 25 hours, New York-Berlin 20 hours. Reverse shows an angel inscribing the names of the crew, “A.Henke, P.v.Moreau, W.Kober, P. Dierberg.” on a tablet with the rim inscription “First non-stop flight of the Condor.” and dates.

Note swastika at bottom of obverse, but no Goetz signature...perhaps a hidden protest?

oldshep · January 21, 2005 2:31PM

Very interesting piece of history!!
Shep

PuddlePirate · January 21, 2005 2:56PM

I agree, a nice peice of history. People have a tendancy to focus on what the Nazi's did during WWII and not look at what the accomplished prior to the war.

cosmicdebris · January 21, 2005 8:31PM

<<
Note swastika at bottom of obverse, but no Goetz signature...perhaps a hidden protest?>>

It would have been definately cool to have had a conversation with Goetz himself on his political views.

theboz11 · January 21, 2005 8:49PM

Not much symbolism either, Nice one

boz · January 21, 2005 11:23PM

How many of these

medals did Goetz produce in his lifetime?

cacheman · January 22, 2005 2:03AM

Goetz produced approximately 760 medals and patterns. I currently have 200 of them...

boz · January 22, 2005 2:18AM

Follow up question, if I may,
What time frame did he do all his work?

cacheman · January 22, 2005 3:10AM

1890-1950

boz · January 22, 2005 3:19AM

No more questions.
Thank you

Askari · January 28, 2005 3:08AM

Hmmm, I wonder ... when did Goetz start switching to the edge punch for his signature? After the Putsch medal?

cacheman · January 28, 2005 3:22AM

He never really did...there are a few medals, this being one of them, that have no signature on either the obv or rev but have an edge-punch. Others have both or a sig and no edge punch. There really is no rhyme or reason as to his preferences. He did "sign" other Third Reich medals that were designed with swastikas...

While I'm at it, I found a mother-lode in Germany of large, rare, and beautiful medals from an old collection. I just ordered 25 of them which include most of the Goetz Family medals including K-510 self portrait at 60 which is used as the icon on the Kienast book cover. I should receive and have these imaged in the next several weeks.

elverno · January 28, 2005 3:31AM

<< <i>I just ordered 25 of them... >>

Glad to see you're keeping yourself busy!

When I was a kid I built a plastic model of the wartime version of the Condor. I can't remember the designation but it was an interesting plane and oddly enough I got into building passenger planes that had wartime lives for a couple of years.

Askari · January 28, 2005 4:07AM

<< <i>While I'm at it, I found a mother-lode in Germany of large, rare, and beautiful medals from an old collection. I just ordered 25 of them which include most of the Goetz Family medals including K-510 self portrait at 60 which is used as the icon on the Kienast book cover. I should receive and have these imaged in the next several weeks.

>>

You don't just suck, Scott -- you über-suck!!!

cacheman · January 28, 2005 4:10AM

My career as an archaeologist has helped immensely in uncovering hidden caches around the world...

cosmicdebris · January 28, 2005 5:05AM

<<While I'm at it, I found a mother-lode in Germany of large, rare, and beautiful medals from an old collection. I just ordered 25 of them which include most of the Goetz Family medals including K-510 self portrait at 60 which is used as the icon on the Kienast book cover. I should receive and have these imaged in the next several weeks.>>

phut · January 28, 2005 9:44AM

Nice!! Awesome collection on your karlgoetz site.

cacheman · January 28, 2005 9:46AM

I hope to update tonight...those plans might change once the wife arrives home though

GOETZ: K-552 Flight of the Condor

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