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Membership Badges of the Woman's league and "Werk"

Membership Badges of the Woman's league and "Werk"

LOT 62-0684
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Auction ended        23rd October 2022  |  03:26 pm CEST
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STARTING PRICE: USD 60,00
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EXCL. BUYER’S PREMIUM: 22,50 %
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PERIOD 1918 — 1945
COUNTRY Germany 1918 - 1945
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US LOT 62-0684
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US LOT 62-0684
PERIOD 1918 — 1945
COUNTRY Germany 1918 - 1945
EAN 3000000011409
MATERIAL
DIMENSIONS
MAKER
WEIGHT
PERIOD 1918 — 1945
COUNTRY Germany 1918 - 1945
US LOT 62-0684
MATERIAL
DIMENSIONS
EAN 3000000011409
MAKER
WEIGHT
Germany 1918 - 1945


Description

Membership badges of the N.S. Frauenschaft (Hü 9216 g) in two different sizes and a membership badge of the adjacent Deutsches Frauenwerk ((Hü 9215 a). The Frauenwerk badge (31.5 mm) is made from silvered metal and enamel and is on a safety pin. It shows markings “RZM M1/105”. The larger (30.1 mm) Frauenschafts pin is made equivalently but is convex in shape and shows the markings “RZM M1/120”. There is a smaller version of the convex shaped Frauenschafts badge (22.6 mm) and marked with “RZM M1/128” and a identical in size but flat version marked (23 mm) “RZM M1/72)

The National Socialist Women's League was the women's wing of the Nazi Party. It was founded in October 1931 as a fusion of several nationalist and Nazi women's associations, such as the German Women's Order which had been founded in 1926. From then on, women were subordinate to the NSDAP Reich leadership. Guida Diehl was its first speaker (Kulturreferentin).

The Frauenschaft was subordinated to the national party leadership; girls and young women were the purview of the League of German Girls (Bund Deutscher Mädel, BDM). From February 1934 to the end of World War II in 1945, the NS-Frauenschaft was led by Reich's Women's Leader (Reichsfrauenführerin) Gertrud Scholtz-Klink (1902–1999).

Its activities included instruction in the use of German-manufactured products, such as butter and rayon, in place of imported ones, as part of the self-sufficiency program, and classes for brides and schoolgirls. During wartime, it also provided refreshments at train stations, collected scrap metal and other materials, ran cookery and other classes, and allocated the domestic servants conscripted in the east to large families. Propaganda organizations depended on it as the primary spreader of propaganda to women.

The NS-Frauenschaft reached a total membership of 2 million by 1938, the equivalent of 40% of the total party membership.

The German National Socialist Women's League Children's Group was known as “Kinderschar".

The Deutsches Frauenwerk (DFW) was a National Socialist women's organization created in October 1933. In addition to the Nazi women's group, it served as a gathering place for the members of the Weimar Republic 's women's associations that had been brought into line. Among them were nationalist and conservative-oriented women's associations such as the Queen Luise League, Evangelisches Frauenwerk, the Sisterhood of the German Red Cross and the Reich Association of German Housewives.

As a registered association with its own assets, the DFW was not formally subordinate to the NSDAP, but was affiliated with the party as a "supervised association". The DFW and the National Socialist Women's Union, which was directly subordinate to the NSDAP, were closely related organizations because the Reich Women's Leader Gertrud Scholtz-Klink was at the head of both organizations. About 1.7 million women were organized in the DFW, and about 2.3 million in the NS-Frauenschaft. The “Reichsmutterdienst”, which was carried out jointly by both organizations, achieved the greatest widespread effect and was temporarily based in the “Essener Hof”. It organized so-called "mother training courses" throughout the Reich, which were attended by 1.14 million women in 54,000 courses between 1934 and 1937 alone.


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