1082895 | GERMANY - EMPIRE. Otto Eduard Weddigen. (Lieutenant Captain, 1914-1918) . 1915 AR Medal. PCGS SP63. By August Hummel for Lauer. 33.2mm. 18.41gm. Uniformed bust; to left and facing and signed on truncation / DEM ANDENKEN DES HELDENMUTIGEN FUHRERS (In Memory of the Heroic Leader). Iron cross and laurel branch above scene of surfaced sailing U-boat; legend above and U-boats listed below in exergue. Zetzmann 6016.


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Otto Eduard Weddigen (15 September 1882 – 18 March 1915) was an Imperial German Navy U-boat commander during World War I in command of U-9 (1 August 1914 – 11 January 1915) and U-29 (16 February 1915 – 18 March 1915). He was awarded the Pour le Mérite, Germany's highest honor, for sinking four British warships and the Iron Cross First & Second Class.