Hello,
Is this a flakhelfster on the picture?
regards
Brecht
Straßenbahn-Schaffnerinnen (Tram Conductresses)
Straßenbahn-Schaffnerinnen (Tram Conductresses)
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Flakhelferin
Hi buchi,
as much as I remember was that the uniform of the workers in the trams.You may see that on the left pocket where a cord can be seen.
On this cord used to be a whistle.
Best regards
Rudi
as much as I remember was that the uniform of the workers in the trams.You may see that on the left pocket where a cord can be seen.
On this cord used to be a whistle.
Best regards
Rudi
Hi there,
On her left breast pocket you can also see a RADwJ badge, denoting that she was a volunteer tram conductor in the service of the Reichsarbeitsdienst der Weiblichen Jugend or RADwJ.
I have attached a picture so that you can see what the badge would have looked like:
On her left breast pocket you can also see a RADwJ badge, denoting that she was a volunteer tram conductor in the service of the Reichsarbeitsdienst der Weiblichen Jugend or RADwJ.
I have attached a picture so that you can see what the badge would have looked like:
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No problem 
Her badge looks silvery, so I'd say she's been in service for at least 5 years. Gold badge wearers tended to have held ranks. Not sure about the silver badge wearers though. Members also routinely wore a round brooch at the throat of their blouses, unless they had volunteered for a service that made it impossible. And some RADwJ ladies even ended up manning FLAK guns after 1943, but came under the command of the armed forces. The lady above is definitely Tram Service though.
RADwJ was a voluntary service till 1940, when it became compulsory. It was somewhere the unmarried young women tended to go. Sadly if you wanted to go to university you had to prove you volunteered and did your 6 months service for RADwJ or you were automatically declined a place.
If you type in RADwJ on Google search you should find quite a lot of information about the service. Hope this helps.
BTW, I am doing my own ongoing research into the RADwJ. Any website links, badges for sale etc I would be interested.
Her badge looks silvery, so I'd say she's been in service for at least 5 years. Gold badge wearers tended to have held ranks. Not sure about the silver badge wearers though. Members also routinely wore a round brooch at the throat of their blouses, unless they had volunteered for a service that made it impossible. And some RADwJ ladies even ended up manning FLAK guns after 1943, but came under the command of the armed forces. The lady above is definitely Tram Service though.
RADwJ was a voluntary service till 1940, when it became compulsory. It was somewhere the unmarried young women tended to go. Sadly if you wanted to go to university you had to prove you volunteered and did your 6 months service for RADwJ or you were automatically declined a place.
If you type in RADwJ on Google search you should find quite a lot of information about the service. Hope this helps.
BTW, I am doing my own ongoing research into the RADwJ. Any website links, badges for sale etc I would be interested.
They did not fall under any of the railway authorities.I have a rare book (bahnhofsnummerenverzeichisnis)which covers all the lines of the Reichsbahn even the small,Eisenbahn and Kleinbahn.The trams are never mentioned in this book at all,which covers the years 1934-1944.
buchi,if you ever want to sell or trade that photo,I would be interested.
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buchi,if you ever want to sell or trade that photo,I would be interested.
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The lady in Buchi’s picture does appear to be wearing one of the RADwJ longservice brooches. But the badge normally worn by women who had completed their mandatory RADwJ service and then did a further six months’ work for the war effort (as Maxxx said, to free up the men for war service) was the Kriegshilfsdienstabzeichen.
Some photos from the cover and photo spread “ ‘Noch jemand ohne Fahrschein bitte?’: RAD.-Mädel im Kriegshilfsdienst bei den Wiener Städt. Strassenbahnen”, in the January 1943 Wiener Illustrierte. The cover photo shows nicely the woman’s Kriegshilfsdienst brooch, RADwJ Kriegshilfsdienst armband, and Rudi’s lanyard and whistle:
Some photos from the cover and photo spread “ ‘Noch jemand ohne Fahrschein bitte?’: RAD.-Mädel im Kriegshilfsdienst bei den Wiener Städt. Strassenbahnen”, in the January 1943 Wiener Illustrierte. The cover photo shows nicely the woman’s Kriegshilfsdienst brooch, RADwJ Kriegshilfsdienst armband, and Rudi’s lanyard and whistle:
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Ahoj!
The training pictures 005 and 009 make me think of quite recent (90s) German washing powder commercials - the same type of "Wise Man in Long Coat sorrounded by bunch of clueless women".
- OOO, so that's a tram you say? Who could've thought that!
Interesting that some wear pants.
And that impossible bee waists were already in use in advertising.
Borys
The training pictures 005 and 009 make me think of quite recent (90s) German washing powder commercials - the same type of "Wise Man in Long Coat sorrounded by bunch of clueless women".
- OOO, so that's a tram you say? Who could've thought that!
Interesting that some wear pants.
And that impossible bee waists were already in use in advertising.
Borys
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