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10-27-2016 12:24 AM
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Circuit advertisement
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Hi Darren great provenance with high personality. Im hopeful of Andreas Hpl2008 to chime in on the city Buttstadt...and some translation of the Gothic type..and any other incidentals others may be able to contribute too.
Weird little man Fritz..and was called by Josef Goebels..the "dullest of the dull"..and gained the original title "Slave driver" from all the work he used prisoners and camp inmates to complete the tasks by order in which some organizations took advantage off. Scary stuff !!
Regards Larry
It is not the size of a Collection in History that matters......Its the size of your Passion for it!!
- Larry C
One never knows what tree roots push to the surface of what laid buried before the tree was planted - Larry C
“The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.” - Winston Churchill
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Fantastic hand lettering by O. Dorfner. Excellent condition and historically significant. Bob
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Larry C
Hi Darren great provenance with high personality. Im hopeful of Andreas Hpl2008 to chime in on the city Buttstadt...and some translation of the Gothic type..and any other incidentals others may be able to contribute toor
It translates as:
In its meeting of 5 May 1933, the town council of Buttstädt has unanimously decided to make our highly revered and highly popular campaigner of the National Socialist German Workers' Party,
Reichsstatthalter Mr. Fritz Sauckel, Weimar
an
HONORARY CITIZEN
of the city of Buttstädt.
To attest this, this certificate of honorary citizenship has been issued.
Buttstädt, 20 May 1933
The Head of the Town:
[signed: Jacob]
Mayor
The Town Council:
[signed: Rammelt]
Deputy Chairman of the Town Council
Buttstädt is a town in Thuringia.
Personally, I am not aware of any special connection to Sauckel, other than him being the Reichsstatthalter of Thuringia. Since he was appointed to that office on 5 May 1933, it is very likely the actual reason for his honorary citizenship, as the town council made that decision on the same day.
(However, Sauckel had been living and working in Thuringia since the 1920s and at one point was the NSDAP Ortsgruppenleiter of Ilmenau, which is about an hour away from Buttstädt, so there may well be some other, more direct connection as well, though. )
Last edited by HPL2008; 10-27-2016 at 09:08 AM.
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Thanks so much for all the info Andreas! I appreciate it very much. I think you are right on target regarding the 5 May 1933 date being the same as his appointment to the Reichsstatthalter of Thuringia. There is too much of a coincidence there for that not to be the reason for the honorary citizenship.
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a great document to survive the owner.
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