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An Award Certificate for the 1924 Stahlhelm Badge

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An Award Certificate for the 1924 Stahlhelm Badge

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An Award Certificate for the 1924 Stahlhelm Badge

Award certificate commencement of duty badge “Stahlhelm” Robert Fessel, 23.4 x 31.5 cm. Date of item: 1934. Condition: very good, signs of aging.

A certificate for the award of the commencement of duty badge of the “Stahlhelm”, League of Front Soldiers to Robert Fessel. The regional state organization is Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony). Fessel is from Vienenburg and joined the “Stahlhelm” in 1924. The badge was donated by the founder of the “Stahlhelm”, Franz Seldte (1882–1947), on occasion of its 15th anniversary in 1933. The award is dated to Berlin on Feb 20th, 1934, carries a facsimile of Seldte and an indecipherable signature.

Footnote: The “Stahlhelm” (steel helmet), League of Front Soldiers was a paramilitary organization founded in 1918. It attracted former soldiers from WWI whose financial situation was unstable and who rejected the new democracy of the Weimar Republic. Because of its fundamentally monarchist character, the “Stahlhelm” was distrusted after Hitler’s rise to power. It was urged to merge with the SA, which largely happened in 1934. The remaining organization was finally outlawed by AH in 1935.