SMGL-2707 adolf hitler jungsturm pin 1921 1923
$800.00
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Here is an old link discussing this pin. Indeed, a VERY rare item right here. Possibly the earliest pre-HJ badge ever made. It is about the size of a nickel and made of aluminum or some type of very light pot metal, with a brass pin back and Ges. Gesch marked. If you are an advanced HJ collector, this is likely missing from your collection. There are only a few known. One sold many years ago by a notable German Dealer and a few have popped up in discussion threads.
I will note, there is some controversy with this pin. Jo Rivett has said that this badge is a fantasy item. However, just about everyone else disagrees. So, it is up to you to read up on it, talk to people and make the decision for yourself. Our standard 1 year return policy applies, as usual.
The first NSDAP youth movement and predecessor to the Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth or HJ) was the Jungsturm Adolf Hitler. The initial impetuous came from Adolf Lenk, a piano maker from München, aged just 18 in 1921. He began to recruit boys aged between fourteen and eighteen for his ‘Jungsturm Adolf Hitler’ and whilst attending a meeting in early 1922 at which Hitler was present, he suggested the organization become the NSDAP’s official youth section. This suggestion appealed to Hitler and the official formation was announced in newspapers on the 8th of March 1922. The Jungsturm Adolf Hitler was essentially the youth section of the Sturmabteilung or SA, known as the brownshirts.
Around 140 groups were founded across Germany but following the failure of the München putsch the NSDAP and with it the Jungsturm Adolf Hitler were banned. Some cells of the Jungsturm Adolf Hitler went underground and continued their activities including that of Kurt Grüber in Plauen (Saxony) who would eventually become the first national leader of the Hitlerjugend (HJ).
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