THAT is giantly HUGE Paul, almost as big as me
Can you hang that somewhere? OH, is there a lable on it? Sometimes flags have those? Anyhow, dont have the "cool KdF thing" yet ofcourse, but, this 1s for you and posting your awesome flag ...
Hooking into the maker Sieper and Friedrich (
post above), "they" were expreimenting lots with plastiks/chemicals and stuff. Reckon lots was tested during war, and lots we still use today. Take this gorgeous Abzeichen! Also KdF, super design! Very proud pin. I saw this also in blue? So, possibly this comes in other colours too, or with only the light colour painted and not the black. This one black'ish and silverish white painted up front, (
see the close-up pic #2), blue (
unpainted) at the back.
Anyhow, a very nice plastik pin, by the maker
Walgo, a plastiks/chemicals company in Kierspe, a city in Nordrhein Westfalen. The company stil exists today, doing the same thing as back then; Kunststoffverarbeitung. Ha! Fun thing is, theres 3
Walgos in the RZM Liste; M1/175 (
M1 for NSDAP Abzeichen), M5/189 (
for uniform acesoires) and M9/20 (
M9 for Tagungsabzeichen). Same company, maybe 2 locations? The 2 Walgos have diffring abreviations after the name, the first "Kom-Ges." and the other 2 "Inh. Goseberg". Inh. may mean owner? From Inhaber?
The company
website is up, and the city, you can visit on the web
here. The lion of the
city coat of arms is used in the pin very nice I think. The maker at the back, clearly. "BHF" problaby means Bahnhof.
Kierspe Bahnhof (
means "trainstation") is a Stadtteil.
Gau Kurhessen, Leitung in city Kassel. Gau formed in 1925. In 1927, the Gau was split up, in Gau Hessen, Gau Hessen-Nassau Nord and Gau Hessen-Nassau S�d. In 1934, another reform, Gau Hessen-Nassau Nord renamed to
Gau Kurhessen. This Gau Kurhessen had 2 Gauleiter;
Karl Weinrich from 1934 to 1943, and
Karl Gerland from 1943 to end of war.
Enjoy,
KR
