Help needed - question

[Wilhelm Saris]

Can somebody help me with this young lady, apparantly being a nurse.
At this moment I do not have a clue!
From what organization is she and what does the brooch or its symbol mean?



Photo-credit: Daisy

[Gwar]

Gosh Wim. If you don't know who would ?? Hopefully you get a better answer.. G

[MAP]

I guess that brooch will tell all. But not one that I am familiar with.

Keeping the fingers crossed that someone does know.

[Wilhelm Saris]

Gosh Wim. If you don't know who would ?? Hopefully you get a better answer. G

Of course I have my thoughts and opinion GWAR, but it is a guess. Just like that!

My first thoughts says, the young woman is a midwife (Hebamme), but their
insignia is still different. Since mid-war their symbol included an "H"!

I thought HPL2008 might possibly have a clue?

[RSW]

I might be wrong on this, and it is a long shot. However... the insignia the young lady is wearing looks somewhat similar to that of the Caritas Schwesternschaft. This Wiki page (translated into English) describes this Catholic organization that still exists today:

https://translate.google.com/transla...is&prev=search

In October 1937, the free Catholic sisterhood organizations present in Nazi Germany were reorganized into a single umbrella group called the ,,Imperial Association of Free Caritas Sisters" (,,Reichsgemeinschaft freier Caritasschwestern"). [1] It looks like there were variations in their insignia over time, one of them is this example:



I see that the insignia worn in the photo does not appear to have any writing on it. I am also not enough knowledge in this area to know for certain what the insignia is. However, the young lady pictured also appears to be wearing a Catholic sister's headpiece. So another clue, perhaps?

Hope this helps. If anything, maybe it opens up some new directions of groups to search in?

[1] Source: Nurses and Midwives in Nazi Germany: The Euthanasia Programs, Pages 39-41, https://books.google.com/books?id=iB...erhood&f=false

[Wilhelm Saris]

RSW: this suggestion was send to me also by PM, along with the symbol.
This symbol I also had found in the 2010 version from Hüsken, page 142.
In some ways the symbol resembles, but all lines are firm with the worn
symbol by the girl. The shown symbol here is different. Maybe a later
version?

The headgear the young lady is wearing is not specific for Catholic sisters.
It was also in use by the nurses from the Reichsbund der Freien Schwestern
unf Pflegerinnen e.V. The clothings were copied from the NS-Schwesternschaft,
but instead of the brown color, these females did wear dark-blue. Normally
a long version "Haubentuch" was used with specific dress-forms, but
a short form is known to exist.

The Reichsbund did wear a look-a-like symbol as for the nazi-nurses: the
NSV symbol. Caritas did wear during the Weimar and TR-period a round
brooch with either the Prussian eagle or the state eagle.

[HPL2008]

I thought HPL2008 might possibly have a clue?

Sorry, but unfortunately no. It doesn't ring any bells. I've been racking my brain and have done extensive image searches for every nursing/care-related search term I could think of in the hope of finding the symbol, but came up with nothing.

[Wilhelm Saris]

Until now not a 100% definitive answer.

The dress is anyway identified by a connoisseur as pure German.
It was suggested the young lady has anyway to do with a christianly
organization. It might be in the upper part the letters P and X are
situated (it is vaguely visible there are anyway letters at left and right
of the vertical line).