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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 874414, member: 39&quot;]Have I mentioned lately that those photos are darn small? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> May be a technical issue, dunno. Anyway, with a little reading and a little guessing (German is my primary language) I&#039;d say the medal was made to honor Ferdinand von Zeppelin and one of his airships:</p><p><br /></p><p>The text, I think, is &quot;Taufe des Z 127 am 90. Geburtstag&quot; (which means Naming of the Z 127 on the 90th birthday*) and the date &quot;8. Juli 1928&quot; in two parts. The 127 was one of the Zeppelin airships (see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_127_Graf_Zeppelin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_127_Graf_Zeppelin" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_127_Graf_Zeppelin</a> here), and apparently the airship got its name - umm, number - on the day that would have been Zeppelin&#039;s 90th birthday.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>* Zeppelin died in 1917, and according to the German article here <a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_127" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_127" rel="nofollow">http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/LZ_127</a> his daughter named the airship after him, on the day that is mentioned on your medal.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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