unknown enameled badge "styria", what organization is it?
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3ccc
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3ccc
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Hello 3CCC
It's a Heimwehr piece. C123a, page 215 in Heering-Husken 1997. It is the larger version. The smaller has no horse inside the shield. On second look, the piece in the book has no swaz on the lid so logically yours must be of later issue
PS It appears from your scan that the swaz was applied right over the upper rivet on the lid. Perhaps it was added on? Just speculating of course. -
Indeed Heimwehr pins..........
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It certainly looks like the Swaz has been added to this piece, although I suspect it was done during the period. I've attached my one with enamelled Swaz below.
The versions with the Swastika were utilised by the Steirischer Heimwehr for only a very short time, either during a few months in 1931 or more likely for a few months in 1933.
The Heimwehr was formed in 1919 primarily in Carinthia & Stryria where it fought the in Yugoslav border conflicts. It later joined with other right wing paramilitary organisations in Austria to fight the internal Marxist threat.
The Styrian Heimwehr preferred to use the name Heimatschutz & from 1926 until July 1931 they were fierce opponents of the Austrian Nazi Party (NSDAP-HB). Following a truce in July, a "Kampfgemeinschaft" or fighting alliance was signed between the two groups in Klagenfurt & ratified at a public meeting in Graz in October 1931. However it was short lived & following infighting the Kampfgemeinschaft was dissolved on 30th December 1931. This led to a bitter rivalry between the groups & they regarded each other as mortal enemies from then on......
However, following Hitler's take-over of power in 1933 the Styrian Heimatschutz recognised the way the world was heading, & on the 9th March once more joined with the Austrian NSDAP-HB to form the "Pan-German Front." In Lienzen on 22nd April they signed a second Kampfgemeinschaft which lasted until June 1933 when both the Nazis & the Heimatschutz were outlawed by the Austrian government.
Unusually, unlike other groups, the Styrian Heimatschutz preserved their "organisational independence" within the alliance.
So as far as I can see it there are two short periods of time that this particular badge could have been made & worn. Either during the 1st Kampfgemeinschaft or following the 2nd Kampfgemeinschaft. Either way, only in use for a relatively short span of time.
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