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07-28-2013 04:36 PM
# ADS
Circuit advertisement
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Hello Jo
I don't know if the badge is real, but I found this... ??
http://www.germanpostalhistory.com/p...p?itemid=56163
cordially
Didier
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I see that the OP that is asking questions on this ("Jo Rivett") is apparently banned from WRF, and that the post itself dates back to 2013. However, in case anyone happens across a badge such as the one mentioned in the future, I thought that I would add some relevant information.
I believe it likely that the Danziger Luftschultzbund did, in fact, exist. The example found by Didier (on the German Postal History web site) indicates the name "Danziger Luftschultzbund e.V." the e.V. meaning eingetragener Verein (a corporation structure similar to a non-profit that still exists today under German law); it makes sense that such an organization (in that time and place) would have been structured in this manner.
On the round badge posted by the OP is the insignia of the Danzig Free City (the crown with the two crosses under it, located underneath the swastika). The Danzig Free City is what Danzig was known as between the end of WWI (when the Versailles Treaty took effect) and the beginning of WWII. Part of the Treaty of Versailles directed that Germany cede Danzig (and West Prussia) and Danzig became known as the "Danzig Free City" under League of Nations protection while also maintaining special administrative ties to Poland.
While it was the Danzig Free City (and after 1933 when the Nazis came to power in Germany but before WWII and the invasion of Poland began), I believe it would have made sense that Danzig would have had its own version of a Luftschultzbund. Because during that time Danzig was not a part of Germany where the RLB had been created to deal with air raid protection.
After the invasion of Poland in 1939, the Danzig Free City (largely ethnically Germany anyway and under growing Nazi influence after 1933) was taken by the Wehrmacht and it was formally re-incorporated back into the German Reich. At that point I believe it likely that the RLB would have taken over air raid protection responsibility for Danzig and that the Danziger Luftschultzbund would have ceased to exist as an entity separate from the RLB.
I cannot comment on the authenticity of the badge itself. Also, corporations registered as an eingetragener Verein had records retained by the state and if those records survived (questionable given the bombing and more) it may be possible to do further research for those located in Germany itself, if one wanted further confirmation. Such records if complete would have included the organization's charter (Satzung).
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Hello RSW
Thanks a lot for explanations !
I hope someone can prove that this badge existed... ?
cordially
Didier
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here is one of a friend
what can you say about it ?
https://i.servimg.com/u/f75/11/14/30/43/danzig14.jpg
Thanks
Didier
PS: I can't upload pictures.... I need help, please
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Coffin back pin and plastic enamel by the look of it
All not good in my book.
Morris
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Hello Morris
not plastic
Didier
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Don't know whether it is plastic enamel or what but the coffin pin plate is no good in any case. Just with that I wouldn't want it in my collection.
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