The Coburg Badge

[JoeW]

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[John Pepera]

Super nice and a credible catch Joe.

And, doubly nice that I found my Blood Order holder on the list,
Alfons Brundl # 335.

As always your research efforts are helpful and much appreciated.

John

[Coburg]

It is such a pity these badges are not attributable. I would love to know who was awarded my badge .


Thanks for posting the list Joe. great stuff
Jim

[transvision]

i have a first pattern coburg badge with a postcard sized photograph of the guy in his ww2 army officers uniform.his large gold party badge was sold to some one else what a pity

[Jon Fish]

i have a first pattern coburg badge with a postcard sized photograph of the guy in his ww2 army officers uniform.his large gold party badge was sold to some one else what a pity

Sling up his name and NSDAP number, maybe a member here owns the GPB

[transvision]

i will dig out my mcdivitt file on mr beramier.

[der-hase-fee]

i will dig out my mcdivitt file on mr beramier.

Funny name. But a re-union would be great !

[Br. James]

Dear Transvision,

As you will notice from the copy of the Original CB List posted by Joe below, the name "Beramier" does not appear there. It's not on Robin Lumsden's expanded list, either. Don't know quite what to make of that...

Br. James

[ErichS]

Super nice and a credible catch Joe.

And, doubly nice that I found my Blood Order holder on the list,
Alfons Brundl # 335.

As always your research efforts are helpful and much appreciated.

John

Thanks for posting the list Joe!

John, the holder of my Blood Order # 626, Franz Fuchs is on the list as well.

[ErichS]

It is such a pity these badges are not attributable. I would love to know who was awarded my badge .


Thanks for posting the list Joe. great stuff
Jim

Jim, with so very few badges awarded, Hitler probably didn't think that numbering them was necessary. Also, when actually being handed out by Hitler or others at the 10 anniversary, it made it easier to have them all on a tray and then pinning them to the recipients shirts.

[JoeW]

Jim, with so very few badges awarded, Hitler probably didn't think that numbering them was necessary. Also, when actually being handed out by Hitler or others at the 10 anniversary, it made it easier to have them all on a tray and then pinning them to the recipients shirts.

I think that in planning the 10th anniversary celebration with the Kanzlei in Munich, Schwede-Coburg had no real idea how many badges would be needed, as he had no way of knowing a head-count. Veterans would be coming in from all over Germany. So he ordered perhaps for 40% of the numbers reported in Mein Kampf, wanting to be safe than sorry. Numbering perhaps cost extra and as the local Ortsgruppe was funding this, he wanted to keep costs down. I think we have to rely on the S-C report of the event as he was the only author who was at the 1932 event or even in Germany at that time for that matter.

Schwede wrote that 250 veterans of Coburg 1922 showed up for the award ceremony. No Besitz-Zeugnis were prepared as they didn't know the names of anyone who would show. That is why it took over a year for the documents to be sent out to the recipients from Munich. So the Coburg veterans were presented their badges by OGF Hofmann in the garden of the Gesellschaftshaus, which later became the local Ortsgruppe HQ.

The veterans then joined together for the march to the Sports Field where the mass Hitler rally was taking place. As explained in Jeff's copy of the IB Nr.44 of 1932, Hitler was on a long aerial campaign excursion that would take him all over Germany. Jeff kindly shared photos from that issue that I am using here. While the photos are only labeled and no other information is provided in the article other than he arrived on the 16th, I have put together description of the events based on the photos and Schwede's description.

Hitler arrived in Coburg and was driven from the airfield to the Sport Field.



The veterans of Coburg 1922 had arrived and were there with the other SA and party formations numbering in the 10s of thousands. The picture is labeled "The Rows of the Men of the Coburg Hunderschafts".



I cannot make out any dark badges that would be the Coburg Badge, but the small white shapes on some tunics might be the event badge that was pictured earlier in this thread. Would they have immediately pinned the badge to their blouses? The large pin would leave a big hole in the fabric IMO.

Hitler arrived at the Sports Field and greeted those Coburg veterans who had made it to Coburg for the celebration.



Hitler made his speech at which event Schwede presented him with the framed Honorary Citizen Certificate that was promulgated earlier in the year by the Coburg City Council.



After his speech, Hitler left and proceeded to the airfield for departure. He had more stops and speeches to make that day.

[ErichS]

Joe,

Although a more general descrption was written by Kurt Ludecke but different in content from the Schwede Coburg account of the awarding event. Who is right? Don't know, but it adds to the legend of the Coburg badge.

[Br. James]

A great reconstruction of the CB events of 1932, Joe; many thanks for your effort! And I agree that it would not have been possible to pin each badge onto the shirt of each recipient without ripping a large hole in each person's shirt, given the large pin. It was probably presented in a case...the CB did come in a case, didn't it?

Great stuff, Joe!

Br. James

[ErichS]

A great reconstruction of the CB events of 1932, Joe; many thanks for your effort! And I agree that it would not have been possible to pin each badge onto the shirt of each recipient without ripping a large hole in each person's shirt, given the large pin. It was probably presented in a case...the CB did come in a case, didn't it?

Great stuff, Joe!

Br. James

James, to date a case has never been seen.

[JoeW]

A great reconstruction of the CB events of 1932, Joe; many thanks for your effort! And I agree that it would not have been possible to pin each badge onto the shirt of each recipient without ripping a large hole in each person's shirt, given the large pin. It was probably presented in a case...the CB did come in a case, didn't it?

Great stuff, Joe!

Br. James

At a cost of RM 1,50 each according to Schwede's letter to the Kanzlei, I would wager they came in paper wrap.