-1000x1000.jpg "Gold Party Badge to SS Officer Max Sollmann # 805")
-1000x1000.jpg "Gold Party Badge to SS Officer Max Sollmann # 805")
-1000x1000.jpg "Gold Party Badge to SS Officer Max Sollmann # 805")
Gold Party Badge to SS Officer Max Sollmann # 805
The Golden Party Badge of the NSDAP was authorized by a Hitler decree of October 13, 1933 to honor those Party Members who, as of November 9, 1933, had a registered membership number under 100,000 - provided their party membership had been active and uninterrupted since the NSDAP's re-founding on February 17, 1925. In fact, the NSDAP had already exceeded 100,000 members by September, 1930. On November 9, 1933 the Treasury Department of the NSDAP certified only 22,282 of the first 100,000 NSDAP members eligible for the badge. This included 1,795 women.
The first awards were made November 9, 1933, on the 10th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch. Award documents show awards were frequently presented on significant dates in the Nazi calendar - Nov. 9, Jan. 30, April 20, etc., as well as throughout the year. Source: Gold-Party-Pin
This
particular badge was awarded to Standartenfuehrer Max Sollmann who was
on the personal staff of the Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler and was
the man in control of the Lebensborn program. The Lebensborn program
which translates to " Wellspring of Life" was set up in 1935 as a means
to overcome declining birth rates and to supply unwed mothers of SS men
an avenue in the form of maternity homes and health care to bear their
children and maintain the Aryan bloodline for future generations of the
3rd Reich. The program was initially established under the " SS Office
of Race and Resettlement " and transferred to the control of Himmler's
personal staff in 1938.
Sollmann was tried after the war in a 3 count indictment in what was referred to as the RuSHA trial ( Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt ) or ( Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans). The charges stemmed from the implementation of the Nazi pure race program and included, crimes against humanity, war crimes attributed to the kidnapping of children from eastern territories, and being a member of a criminal organization, the SS. Sollmann was found guilty of one count of being a member of a criminal organization and released on time served in July of 1946.
Max Sollmann was awarded the KVK I, KVK II, GPB, Honor Ring, SS Degen, and the Blood Order.
Photo Credits: Kris Lindblom
Erich Schaefer Collection
The Golden Party Badge of the NSDAP was authorized by a Hitler decree of October 13, 1933 to honor those Party Members who, as of November 9, 1933, had a registered membership number under 100,000 - provided their party membership had been active and uninterrupted since the NSDAP's re-founding on February 17, 1925. In fact, the NSDAP had already exceeded 100,000 members by September, 1930. On November 9, 1933 the Treasury Department of the NSDAP certified only 22,282 of the first 100,000 NSDAP members eligible for the badge. This included 1,795 women.
The first awards were made November 9, 1933, on the 10th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch. Award documents show awards were frequently presented on significant dates in the Nazi calendar - Nov. 9, Jan. 30, April 20, etc., as well as throughout the year. Source: Gold-Party-Pin
This
particular badge was awarded to Standartenfuehrer Max Sollmann who was
on the personal staff of the Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler and was
the man in control of the Lebensborn program. The Lebensborn program
which translates to " Wellspring of Life" was set up in 1935 as a means
to overcome declining birth rates and to supply unwed mothers of SS men
an avenue in the form of maternity homes and health care to bear their
children and maintain the Aryan bloodline for future generations of the
3rd Reich. The program was initially established under the " SS Office
of Race and Resettlement " and transferred to the control of Himmler's
personal staff in 1938.
Sollmann was tried after the war in a 3 count indictment in what was referred to as the RuSHA trial ( Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt ) or ( Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans). The charges stemmed from the implementation of the Nazi pure race program and included, crimes against humanity, war crimes attributed to the kidnapping of children from eastern territories, and being a member of a criminal organization, the SS. Sollmann was found guilty of one count of being a member of a criminal organization and released on time served in July of 1946.
Max Sollmann was awarded the KVK I, KVK II, GPB, Honor Ring, SS Degen, and the Blood Order.
Photo Credits: Kris Lindblom
Erich Schaefer Collection