A Diplomatic & Government Official of the Highest Service; Named to Dr. Paul de Chapeaurouge

Group 4, Brocade Dress Belt with Buckle, November 1942 Pattern: Of the highest quality in fire gilt stamped aluminum, unmarked reverse, illustrating a left-facing spread-winged eagle with its talons clenching a wreathed swastika below, on a pebbled background, surrounded by a full wreath of laurel leaves, the buckle measuring 48.3 mm. Brocade dress belt in fine aluminum wire with two rows of black embroidery on the upper, interlaced with white threading, black wool sides and underside, fire gilt aluminum receiving clip on the left end, leather tab with a suede-like finished light brown upper and raw underside stitched in place to the underside of the belt on the left end, the tab with thirteen rows of two holes each for length adjustment, named in black ink "de CHAPEAUROUGE" on the tip of the tab on its upper, stamped in black ink "92" on the tip of the tab on the underside, two sliders on the belt with matching uppers and undersides, the one slider with an extended tab in black wool, the belt measuring 46 mm x 1,050 mm. Very light contact and gilt wear on the buckle, scattered interruptions in the aluminum wire on the upper of the belt and on the sliders, the underside of the belt free of mothing. Better than extremely fine.This particular buckle is illustrated in black and white on page 532 and in colour on page 650 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich, Revised Edition" by John R. Angolia and came from his personal collection. Footnote 1: Footnote: From the collection of approximately 900 German buckles accumulated by John R. Angolia, who start collecting buckles, belts and brocades from 1944 until around 1990; most of the buckles were obtained from the American and German veterans; most of these buckles present a core of Angolia’s book “Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich”, published in 2001. Footnote 2: March 18, 1925 to March 6, 1933 for de Chapeau Rouge belonged to the Hamburg Senate to. He was responsible for the area of ​​higher education and science. Following the resignation of the Social Democratic police senator Adolph Schönfelder on March 3, 1933, he also took over this office. However, just three days later he went angrily back from the Senate after the police force by Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick to the SA banner leader Alfred Richter had been transferred. In addition to this snub was also instrumental for the resignation that de Chapeau Rouge had lost the backing of the DVP, because he now was considered a left wing man in the ever-rightward drift party. As a university senator he already spoke in 1929 in the journal "Pros and cons Academic City" in favor of the Hamburgische Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv to become independent and to convert it into a foundation.