That surley IS a great cabinet Jim! But get rid of the shoebox under it yes? Quickly! It looks better without it *LOL* Wow you're good with cabinets and all that?! Do you do cabinets to display tinnies in a good way? These get messy very eazily, no? And some tinnies surely deserve a good view at it, but also not in a dull metal letterbox-like thing, or just stuck up a piece of cloth in a frame, I dunno, there must be a way to show tinnies, with a bit of backgroundstuff maybe, make it look a period-display, but, protected behind glass, and not a big square uncozy displaycase likes shops have? Anyways, maybe I'm not making sense, but could be you thought of such a thing that I can't explain
So, to get back in KdF-tracks, here a nice Abzeichen to show. It looks like a Mitgliedsabzeichen, but its a tinnie, you can find it in Ti�ste, under "Hessen-Nasau" on page 409 of 2010 edition in book 1. There are 2 versions; a gold metal and a silver metal. This is the gold. The pin I think is restored, or reattached (new solder???), or replaced? The gilding worn off, but its shows the KdF logo lovely. The shots are from back last year but look OK, so, didnt make new ones, the weather is too nice, off to enjoy that instead!
This Gau has some history that maybe is intresting to look at a bit. Early in the rise of evrything NSDAP there was much going on in this Gau. The book "
So k�mpften wir! Schilderungen aus der Kampfzeit der NSDAP im Gau Hessen-Nassau" gives some National Socialist stories about this. In its own history nice to read about the gettogethers and political meetings, where for exemple gold partybadge recievers Sprenger, Kuntsche und M�ller almost got publicaly lynched by an audience in 1924. There is some awesome stuff to read
here too about all of this but you really need to dive into
Erichs posts a bit, he's into the politics and can tell much about this I'm sure! A bit of info on the So k�mpften wir book
here.
Gau Hessen-Nassau officially was formed in 1933, Hessen-Darmstadt was joined with Hessen-Nassau-S�d, and had the Gauleitung in Frankfurt am Mainz. Before 1933, from 1927 to 1933, there were 3 Gaue;
Hessen,
Hessen-Nassau-Nord and
Hessen-Nassau-S�d. And from 1925 to 1927 it was just Gau Hessen. But the whole Hessen-Nassau Gaue history is more explained
here. Hessen-Nassau had 5 KdF-Kreisen, in Bingen, Frankfurt, Hanau, Wetzlar and Worms. The Kreiswarten were in that order Goebel, Ru�ler, Trabant, Kotz and Gutting. The KdF-Gauwart was
Heinrich Wantoch-Rekowski, he also was head of Gau Propaganda for the Reichs Arbeitsdienst.
Kraft durch Freude had some specified Abteilungen, Kasse, Presse, Propaganda, Reisen-Wandern-Urlaub, Volksbildung, Sch�nheit der Arbeit, Sport, Feierabend, Werkscharen and Volkwagen. This is very intresting, it shows a bit more about the organisation of things. The Volkswagen is interesting, so we can better understand why people after WWII tried to get
their savings back from the company; Volkswagen wasn't totally independant!
Enjoy,
KR
