This is the classic version manufactured by Carl Eickhorn Solingen. The hilt fittings in fire-gilt non-ferrous metal, the grip mounts hand-decorated. On the obverse quillon, the separately applied silver-plated Luftwaffe national eagle, triple-riveted. The grip in amber color with gilt wire wrap. Straight nickel-plated and etched blade with fullers on both sides, gilt dedication on the obverse “In dankbarer Anerkennung” (In Grateful Recognition), on the reverse “Der Oberbefehlshaber der Luftwaffe – Hermann Göring” (The Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe – Hermann Göring), each gilt with blued background. On the ricasso with maker’s mark “Original Eickhorn Solingen”. Black leather scabbard with gilt mounts, reverse side clamped.
Only very lightly worn, the original gilding of the fittings over 95% intact, the blade in mint condition. A very well-preserved piece.

Generalleutnant Walter Heling, born 1887 in Belgrad and missing since May 12, 1942 at Kharkov, was Luftwaffe commander in Stade, Jütland, Flensburg from the beginning of the war. Later Commander of Luftwaffe Construction Brigade VI during Operation Barbarossa.