DRK buckle ???

[kirby]

It looks like the buckle that started the thread is the One from Marc V collection.

[zeppelin]

You're right, the marks match !

[russtyle]

Hello guys!
Yes. Looking at the pictures, this is exactly the same buckle, only without the tag.
Stas.

[David North]

Weimar period red cross and other buckle

Both posts no.5 and no.28 within the above detailed War Relics Forum thread, show examples of the mid 1930’s era and so called “third pattern”, ASB buckle.

Regards and best wishes,

David

[Jacopo michelini]

Hello =)

I have never seen this one & for sure it is not the official one =
https://bsrmilitaria.com/wp-content/...9/IMG_2035.jpg

It doesn't mean it fake ! But I'll be caucious and keep asking for advices especially if the price is high.

[Kurt D]

These are two different organisations, albeit with the same mission of caring for the injured. The buckle you linked to is for the DRK (Deutsches Rotes Kreuz, German Red Cross), whereas David is referring to the ASB (Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund, Workers' Samaritan Federation). The latter, although not formally affiliated to any political party, had its roots in the workers' movement with strong connections to the trade unions and the social democratic movement. As such, it clashed with the Nazis before 1933 and was banned throughout Germany by September 1933. The addition of the swastika to the Geneva cross emblem for such an organisation seems perplexing, but apparently the Nazis at first tried to integrate the ASB into their own structure. In the history section of the ASB's website (the organisation still exists today) a membership card dating from "early 1933" is shown with stamps for "Nationalsozialistischer ASB" and "ASB unter nationalsozialistischer Leitung" (ASB under national-socialist direction), and including the Geneva cross with swastika design.

[David North]

Dear Kurt,

Many thanks for providing the excellent and generally little known supporting information, with regards to this particularly enigmatic ASB buckle.

Greatly appreciated.

Regards and best wishes,

David