While I had the vault open I dug out another. I don't think that I've posted this one before..... Apologies if so.
Rheinbahn badge
Not really sure what this one was used for, it could be just a good or long service badge.
However there was a strong affiliation between the Rheinbahn workers & the NSDAP. The canteen at Düsseldorf's central depot on Erkrather Strasse was converted into a Party meeting room, & this central depot became the point of departure for the First of May marches. So the badge could also be something to do with this.
In 1937 the ‘Working People’s Exhibition’ was held in Düsseldorf to demonstrate the power of National Socialism to the rest of the world. The Rheinbahn operated a mini railway through the exhibition, the carriages were pulled by an express train locomotive on a scale of 1:5. A UFA newsreel provided detailed coverage of the exhibition and the visit by the Hermann Goering. The badge could just as easily have been for Rheinbahn personel who worked or help make the event a success, or maybe sold to members of the public at the exhibition.
Whatever it's intended use, it's a fine & rare badge.
