Traditions or Unit Insignia

[Bob Hritz]

I got this with a bunch of german stuff, many years ago. To date I have had no luck making an identification. It is small, about 1 inch tall and thinly stapmed. There are holes for sewing it to something.

I appreciate any help.

Bob Hritz

[Sergeant 08]

Hello Bob,

are you sure it is military related? I'm not sure that it is a tradition badge or unit insignia. Looks like a fountain and owl? It could be a civil town coat of arms too. Only my thoughts.

[Sergeant 08]

No the same but comparable: Town of Quickborn

[Silesien]

The coat-of-arms you posted is a very close match to the badge; it makes sense as well, because Quickborn is near Hamburg in the Hanseatic League area.

[DonC]

I suspect it's a shield for a walkling stick.

Don

[Sergeant 08]

I suspect it's a shield for a walkling stick.

Don

Possible!

[Luciusdegeer]

Gentlemen,

please note that 'Quickborn' also was a (moderate) nationalist and catholic youth and student movement in the 1920's, around a monthly magazine with the same name. It was founded after WWI by an Italian-born Berlin priest named Romano Guardini. His followers were abstainers, nationalists and pacifists. The movement was forced into the Hitlerjugend after 1933 and later forbidden. They used a cross-and-rising-sun-symbol, but also the owl and the source of the city coats-of-arms of Quickborn. This means literally 'the lively source', symbol of the 'dawn of a new man'. Sort of right-wing hippies...
But... it could very well be a simple walking-stick shield...

Greetings,

Lucius