1922 Linz

[dolchmann07]

Has anyone seen this one, it is not in Tieste's. It is dated on the top 1922 and in the sunwheel swastika 1919 I think it says Deutschen Turnerbund. I have had this for many years. It is large, the wingspan is nearly 7CM
Jack

[speedytop]

Hi Jack,

please see here:

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ght=turnerbund

Uwe

[torstenbel]

similarish badge here from another meeting of the Linz Turnerbund in 1971. Cheers, Torsten.

[dolchmann07]

1922 Linz

Hi Jack,

please see here:

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...ght=turnerbund

Uwe

I am a little confused, by the event being in Germany and the early use of the Mobile Swastika, (even though everyone is calling it Austrian) and I am curious as to what is the earliest turnbund pin like this that has the mobile swastika. Does any one have any earlier than 1922?
Thank you for the reference Speedytop. I did a search and must of mispelled the word.
But once I saw the link, I realized I had more than just the one and they are all later dates. I learn something new everyday. A great hobby.
Jack

[Gerdan]

http://www.sammlerecke.at/tagungsabz...erbundabz.html

(19th position from above)

Here you will find it for 45 EURO

Gerdan


Gerdan

[torstenbel]

I am a little confused, by the event being in Germany and the early use of the Mobile Swastika, (even though everyone is calling it Austrian) and I am curious as to what is the earliest turnbund pin like this that has the mobile swastika. Does any one have any earlier than 1922?
Thank you for the reference Speedytop. I did a search and must of mispelled the word.
But once I saw the link, I realized I had more than just the one and they are all later dates. I learn something new everyday. A great hobby.
Jack

The event was in Austria. Linz is a city in Austria and not in Germany. The badges shown here are Austrian. Cheers, Torsten.

[James Noble]

The Turnerbund logo as used here isn’t a mobile swastika it is in fact their use of a pagan sun wheel rune depicting health and vitality, they also have incorporated their own gymnastic four F logo onto this rune. The earliest use of the sun wheel rune I found was on Bert Sammlerecke’s website was 1902 which predates the NSDAP by several years.

[dolchmann07]

Linz

Thanks guys I was looking at a very old map and by comparing the spot I was looking at, I realize now it was Linz on the Rhine, I was seeing. I did not have my reading glasses on.
I feel like I learned a lot from this thread, I thank the moderator for explaining it real slow so I do not jump to conclusions.
Jack
I now realize I even have the 1902 piece.

[Gerdan]

It could be helpful: there was also a "stamp" given on this occasion in Linz 1922 with the same symbols:

http://cgi.ebay.ch/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?...m=260604618378

http://webcache.googleusercontent.co...g_en%7Clang_de

Gerdan

[Gerdan]

The 1922 Turnfest was not in Linz / Rhein but in Linz/Donau (Austria).

If you see the lowermost photo the boot is on the river Donau - not on the river Rhein.

http://www.aschach.at/turnverein/chronik.htm#turnfest

Gerdan