Freikorps Recruiting Posters

[Brian L.]

Sturmbatl. Schmidt
Wehregiment München
Freiw. Regt. Reinhard

[Brian L.]

Einwohnerwehr Halle
Volkswehr Bayern
Detachement Tüllmann
II Marine-Brigade Ehrnardt (Swastika indicates early 1920)

[Masch19]

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[Brian L.]

Freikorps Brandis
Freiwilligen Sturmabteilung Thorn
Freikorps Lützow
Deutsche Schutzdivision

[Brian L.]

Freiwilligen Regiment Magdeburg
Ost-Preussen Freiwilligenkorps (Kraftwagen Flakformationen)
Provisional Reichswehr
"Volunteers Come Out!"

[Jean-Claude]

Beautiful posters Brian!

Surprizing for me to see so many amazing period posters in such a great condition after all this time (most of them arent even creased for folds). Considering how they were used pasted on walls/buildings there must not be very many of these around

I try not to take things too seriously so the light/funny approach to posters 1 (Freikorps Brandis with admiring women and pouting men) and 4 (Deutsches Schutzdivision with Freekorps soldier holding back a monstrous Polish eagle) in your post 4 are particularly appealing to me

Great stuff! Thanks for sharing

JC

[Brian L.]

Thanks Jean-Claude.

I discovered these images in an archive I had stored on a disc and decided it might be of interest to some to post them. I did own a few of these posters, but sold them a long time ago. The majority of the images though were part of an auction held in New York several years ago. I had access to the original scans from the catalog at the time and saved them. I think since then many of them have found their way online.

It's a fascinating area of Freikorps collecting because they are so rare. But, they are very expensive, some selling in the hundreds and even thousands of Euros and they're hard to display because many are quite large. I switched to recruiting postcards because they're essentially duplicates of the posters, but cheaper and obviously easier to store. I'm now selling those off, as well because the prices have risen sharply and I can't add to them anymore.

The Imperial War Museum has a large collection of Freikorps posters, which formed part of a display on the Freikorps including medals, badges and uniforms in 1989 on the 70th anniversary.

[whatthecrunchyo]

Very cool posters!

Jordan

[Jean-Claude]

Thanks for the additional insight Brian

So most (or many) of these posters also winded up being produced as postcards as well? I agree
that postcards would most likely have survived in better condition (slipped in a book etc.) because of their smaller size and be easier to store/display than the full size pieces

Another very interesting post (as usual) Thanks

Best

JC

[USCollect]

Fantastic, thanks!