Two Official Wartime Press Photos of Gau Leader & Reich Governor Josef Bürckel with Goebbels
Item #G31355
$100
Two pictures, measuring 243x180mm, extremely fine condition with minor creases and scuffing. They show Gau Leader Josef Bürckel, one with Joseph Goebbels. The reverse identifies the owner as picture department of the central editorial staff “Bavarian Ostmark” in Bayreuth.
Footnote: Josef Bürckel (1895–1944) was a veteran of the First War. He joined the NSDAP in 1921 (membership no. 33,979). He became a Gau Leader in the Rhineland Palatinate region in 1926. Later this Gau came to include the Saar and Lorraine areas. He also served as Reich Governor of Austria. Bürckel became an SA-Obergruppenführer and an SS-Obergruppenführer. He was posthumously awarded the German Order by A.H.