This was originally posted in the Police & Civil Organizations Forum but a gentleman posted saying I may get some more responses in this forum. Thanks in advance for any direction in which you can point me!
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'Lo all!
I recently bought a photo album from an eBay seller in Portugal that presumably belonged to a woman in the DRK. I say presumably because I don't know the name of the person who originally made the album, but there is one woman in particular who pops up in most of the pictures, so I'd wager to say it was hers. Anyway.
Along with the photo album, there was a pin. I assumed that the pin was attached to the album cover by the way the seller had it sitting on the album in the listing picture, but to my pleasant surprise, it came in the package, independent of the album.
I didn't take a good look at the listing photo and the pin in particular - I was mostly interested in it for the candids of the DRK nurses smiling and laughing, since we all know that Germans never smiled and laughed. (Or so The Public tells me. ) However, when I liberated the pin from its bubble wrap prison, I immediately noticed it was from the Österreichisches Rotes Kreuz.
I must confess, I know nothing about the ÖRK and cannot easily find any information online, save for the fact that they appear to have been absorbed into the DRK in 1938, which doesn't surprise me, and then back to the ÖRK in 1945. It does, however, leave me wondering about this pin and if it is pre- or post-war. My guess is on pre, although I can't find any documentation to support that.
The pin is identical to this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-WWI...-/161935123892
Does anyone have information or at least a good direction to head in when it comes to the ORK? I sure would appreciate it. I am one of the two ladies that head up the DRK: Wien detachment that is a subset of the IR134 Hoch und Deutschmeister reenacted out of the Southeast US and, since we are an Austrian unit, I'd love to know more about the ORK.
Thanks for any help you can offer!
Cheers,
Moose
"Else Hesse"
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'Lo all!
I recently bought a photo album from an eBay seller in Portugal that presumably belonged to a woman in the DRK. I say presumably because I don't know the name of the person who originally made the album, but there is one woman in particular who pops up in most of the pictures, so I'd wager to say it was hers. Anyway.
Along with the photo album, there was a pin. I assumed that the pin was attached to the album cover by the way the seller had it sitting on the album in the listing picture, but to my pleasant surprise, it came in the package, independent of the album.
I didn't take a good look at the listing photo and the pin in particular - I was mostly interested in it for the candids of the DRK nurses smiling and laughing, since we all know that Germans never smiled and laughed. (Or so The Public tells me. ) However, when I liberated the pin from its bubble wrap prison, I immediately noticed it was from the Österreichisches Rotes Kreuz.
I must confess, I know nothing about the ÖRK and cannot easily find any information online, save for the fact that they appear to have been absorbed into the DRK in 1938, which doesn't surprise me, and then back to the ÖRK in 1945. It does, however, leave me wondering about this pin and if it is pre- or post-war. My guess is on pre, although I can't find any documentation to support that.
The pin is identical to this one: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-WWI...-/161935123892
Does anyone have information or at least a good direction to head in when it comes to the ORK? I sure would appreciate it. I am one of the two ladies that head up the DRK: Wien detachment that is a subset of the IR134 Hoch und Deutschmeister reenacted out of the Southeast US and, since we are an Austrian unit, I'd love to know more about the ORK.
Thanks for any help you can offer!
Cheers,
Moose
"Else Hesse"
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