Unidentified Pin

[5ribbonbar]

Can someone help me out with this stick pin? I have had it forever and wondered what the heck it is and now am finally getting around to posting its photo.

Any information is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[blutundehre]

Never seen it before. I could only guess maybe NSBO because of the hammer or even less likely DAF or RAD.
We'll have to see if the experts can chime in.

[CM Alexander]

My guess would be Handwerkskammer...but I am not 100% sure.

[RonR]

Sorry I cannot read German, but it is identified in a Husken's reference book as:

Deutshe Organisationen In Eingegliederten Gebieten
-Osterreich-

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Abeiterpartei
(Schulz-Richtung)

Perhaps someone with better knowlege can make more sense of this.

Best regards,

[5ribbonbar]

Thanks !

Hello. Thanks for the input...will continue the research now that I have a direction to go with.

[sjl]

I bought this little stickpin from 5ribbonbar (thanks!) and promised I'd report on further research into it.

I thought it might be an early NSDAP sympathizer badge. I was wrong, but then, so was Husken's ID.

It wasn't easy to track down, but after some search it now appears to be the membership pin of the Deutschsozialistische Partei (DSP), which existed 1920-22 before being mostly absorbed into the NSDAP. One of its leaders was Julius Streicher, who joined the NSDAP in 1922.

It had influences and cross-membership with the Thulegesellschaft and the Deutschvölkischen Schutz- und Trutzbundes. It ran candidates in a few elections - most of whom did dismally, getting only 0.03% of the vote in the 1920 Reichstag elections.

The DSP was essentially an anti-Semitic, anti-reparations, ultra-nationalist party with Streicher as one of the founders and leaders, that was the "main rival" on the right of the very early NSDAP and was eventually consumed by it. There is even a grainy photo of this type of pin in the NSDAP Hauptarchiv in the Hoover Institute microfilm collection:



So, an interesting little historical backwater.

[Dmv]

Nice research SJL! Another badge identified

This is why I don't sell "unknown" items ...bet 5ribbonbar wishes he still had it!

[sjl]

I don't know if it is particularly valuable - not many DSP collectors out there I bet considering how little is known about it. It's not what I suspected it was either.

For me the fun is the research, even if sometimes you come up with nothing.

[RonR]

Stephen,

That is really interesting as Husken does identify it in a couple of places as belonging to the Austrian Nationalsoziallistsche Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Schulz-Richtung), and also as belonging to the Czechoslovakian Deutsch National Sozialistische Arbeiter-Partei.

Everyday learn something new.

[RonR]

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