3 x Schlageter Badge

[pavels_2005]

Hi,

I would like to show you this 3 Schlageter badges. Each with different text.

Are they all common, or is any of them more rare?

All opinions welcome.

Best regards
Pavel

[pavels_2005]

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[Destruction]

Hi,

I would like to show you this 3 Schlageter badges. Each with different text.

Are they all common, or is any of them more rare?

All opinions welcome.

Best regards
Pavel

Hey Pavel,
What's happened, Schlageter has no connection with Gablonz award makers Just kidding, nice to see you here. Baltikum is the most scarce of these.

Best!
Serg

[pavels_2005]

Thanks a lot Serg,

yes you are right - not Gablonz pieces, but still nice badges.
Thank you for your help.

Best regards
Pavel

[Br. James]

I agree: all three are very nice pieces, welcome in most any collection. And IMO there are no such things as "common" Schlageter Badges; they are difficult to find, and even more so with the addition of more than one battle clasp.

Cheers,

Br. James

[pavels_2005]

Ji James,

thank you. I didnt mean they are generally common. I just wanted to see which text ist not so offten seen: Rhein, Schlesien or Baltikum.

It seems that Baltikum, but more opinions are welcome. I am aware that also other texts could be seen on them.

As I am not expert on this badges, could someone explain why there are different texts on them. What does it mean?

Best regards
Pavel

[Br. James]

Hi Pavel,

If you're referring to the "texts" on the little 'clasps' attached to these Schlageter Badges, they represent the names of the actions or 'battles' in which Albert Leo Schlageter's Freikorps unit participated, together with the dates of those battles.

Cheers,

Br. James

[Brian L.]

Hi Pavel,

If you're referring to the "texts" on the little 'clasps' attached to these Schlageter Badges, they represent the names of the actions or 'battles' in which Albert Leo Schlageter's Freikorps unit participated, together with the dates of those battles.

Cheers,

Br. James

This is not correct. They are battle honors for most of the principal actions and areas of operation in which ALL Freikorps, in general participated and as such, any member who was in the Freikorps could purchase this badge. This was not an award, but essentially a propaganda cash-cow established by the Third Reich Schlageter-Gedächtnis Bund e.V.
As for Leo Schlageter: He was just a member of the Freikorps that were involved in the Kapp Putsch in Berlin in 1920, actions in Ober-Schlesien in 1921 and the Ruhr in 1923. He was an early Nazi sympathizer (as early as 1921) and became a convenient martyr and propaganda icon for the Nazis because of his execution by the French in 1923 for sabotage in the Ruhr. The badge in question was created to enhance his martyrdom and thus his propaganda value to the Nazis, not to mention to consolidate the loyalty of former Freikorps members to the Nazis by recognizing their service. Schlageter was an anti-social thug guilty of atrocities, especially in Silesia in 1921. Thus, he was a perfect symbol for the Nazis.

The clasps that were authorized were:

BALTIKUM 1919/20
BALTIKUM 1919/23
SPARTAKUS 1919/23
KÄRNTEN 1919
GRENZSCHUTZ 1919/20
GRENZSCHUTZ 1919/23
O./SCHLESIEN 1921
O./SCHLESIEN 1922
RHEIN/RUHR 1919/23
RHEIN/RUHR 1923/24
N.S.D.A.P. 1922/23

Without question, the most valuable clasp in terms of which clasp adds the most value is N.S.D.A.P. 1922/23 which is worth 3 x more than any of the other clasps.

IMO, the hardest to find clasps are: KÄRNTEN 1919, N.S.D.A.P. 1922/23, BALTIKUM 1919/23 and BALTIKUM 1919/20.

[pavels_2005]

Thanks a lot for details!!!
It helped me to better understand this badges.
Best regards
Pavel

[Br. James]

I must also offer thanks to our colleague, bolewts58, for adding much more detail to this thread. And as I understand it, Albert Leo Schlageter was never actually a member of either the DAP or the NSDAP; his name and "fame" were spliced onto that of the Nazis in order to absorb his standing with as many elements of the German public as possible. And this was accomplished AFTER his execution.

Br. James

[Destruction]

Hi Gents,
Have you ever seen KÄRNTEN 1919 clasp ? Any chance to see a picture/scan?

Best!
Serg