Konvolut for August Gies with GPB

[laurens]

This is a fantastic set! Actually, I have picture of him in my collection. The same one as in the sportbook.

Thanks again!!!

[Ausweis]

Konvolut for August Gies with GPB

That is amazing. Would you please post?

[SiPo]

Lovely group.

[Jon Fish]

Lovely, excellent grouping to a fighting man, a rarity for GPB holders. By the look of his actions its easy to see how the GPB sustained so much damage.Just awesome !!

[der-hase-fee]

Adorable group, lots of paper to go along with the GPB !

[JUNGCO]

Wow, Michal, you've done it again!
Jeff

[JoeW]

That's a pretty neat set. The pose on the Maginot Line says it all.

[Wim Vangossum]

Lovely grouping! Thanks for sharing it with us.

Regards, Wim

[ErichS]

You got to love the been there look of the GPB. No drawer queen there!

[Erich B.]

Outstanding group! I'm always on the lookout for early and/or high ranking SA sets of papers, photos, etc. but have only found a few that I could buy over the years. This set is wonderful!
Erich

[Bob Clark]

Wow! What an excellent Konvolut for this Gold Party Badge Holder....
Love the photo of him all tattered in Wehrmacht Uni, and GPB in wear!
Outstanding....a pleasure to see all this in one posting to the same
Holder, and I'm sure a neat honor to be the caretaker of the grouping.
Thanks for sharing with us.

[jabnus]

Hi,


This is a really impressive early SA grouping. Thank you for posting, sharing pictures and enabling us seeing groups like this is what makes collecting fun.


When looking at the pictures a few things caught my eye:



- Gies was with a few months over 18 still very young when joining the SA in 1927?

- Two years after joining the SA he joined the HJ? You would expect the other way around, of course 1927 was very early, but still it seems unlogic to join the HJ two years later? I can imagine that during the raoring times of around 1927 every SA men saw a lot of action and the HJ seems a bit like a step back then?

- Gies seems to have moved house a lot? Sutterlin is hard to read, expecialy on the NSDAP membershipbook, but i wonder why that was so often?)

- His SA wehrsportbadge in bronze has number 16944, but his SA ausweis says 27227 (on 1 april 1937), would this be his silver SA sportsbadgenumber?

- Seeing all his award citations from the first two years of the war and then that golden Sa sportsbadgecard we know he was in good shape in 1944, makes you wonder what he did in 1942 till the wars end.


Lets hope his wehrpass surfaces one day and tells the rest of the story, this is really a nice grouping! Again thank you for showing.


best regards,
Gaston

[Ausweis]

Konvolut for August Gies with GPB

Another photograph of August Gies from Laurens Hessels collection purchased on Ebay. I wonder how many of his items are now scattered in different collections.

[Jon Fish]

Just great set, congratulations !

[Ausweis]

Update!

Incredibly, the granddaughter of August Gies found the posting on WAF and wrote to me regarding her grandfather with additional information about this life. She had been searching the internet for information since her family had virtually no traces of the war period of his life.

According to his granddaughter, August Gies lost a leg in Stalingrad but was transported back to Munich before the city was regained by the Soviets. He worked in the SA offices there until 1945 when he was arrested by the Americans. He was not released until 1947. He had a difficult time finding work because of his NSDAP association and was a construction worker for a while. Later he found a job in an office and then in a Wiesbaden bank where he eventually became the director. He died in the seventies.

August was married twice. The first time to his granddaughter's mother with whom he had three children. They divorced in the 1950's. His first wife tried to destroy all evidence of the Nazi past when the war ended and buried his uniform and gun in the garden and they were never recovered. His granddaughter is uncertain how his documents and photos ended up for sale unless it was through his second wife.

It is still a mystery if his Soldbuch or Wehrpass survived.