NS Frauenschaft

[Scarlett]

I have some of these Gau leader photos but where is this one from?

http://www.doew.at/service/ausstellung/1938/12/12b.html

[Matt Gibbs]

many thanks!!!

[Matt Gibbs]

Like the photo of the shoe exchange. This reminds me of a photo I have taken by a Heer Helferin in Athens in 1943 in some street markets, there is a huge shoe stall with almost literally hundreds of pairs of shoes all over the pavement!
Regards
Matt Gibbs

[Vikki]

A better photo of the Frauenhilfsdienst brooch in wear (from Deutsches Frauenschaffen im Krieg: Jahrbuch der Reichsfrauenführung 1941):

[Vikki]

And of the Frauenschaft uniform (also from Deutsches Frauenschaffen im Krieg: Jahrbuch der Reichsfrauenführung 1941):

[Vikki]

From Gordon Williamson's World War II German Women's Auxiliary Services:

[Matt Gibbs]

Ooh need to start re-looking in my Jahrbuchs!
Last photo nice shot of the Type 3 badge with the swaz.eagle. and what may be a party membership badge at the top.
ttfn

[Vikki]

Better scans of the National Socialist Women's documents, for a new member who might be interested:

[Vikki]

....and she received a letter of commendation for her tireless work for the NS-Frauenschaft:

[Heimatschuss]

Hello,

the following photo seems to be a good example of the very early NS Frauenschaft dress when you still may have called them 'brownskirts'. The NS Frauenschaft chapter from the village of Hollwege in county Ammerland in 1931/1932. Most of them are wearing a combination of brown shirt, brown skirt and a brown tie together with brown stockings and black shoes. Curiously the brown ties seem to have been tucked into the shirt in most cases. I've never seen this being done before in Germany and always thought it was an American habit. Strange.

From left to right:
Herta Hobbiesiefken, nee Claus
Kea Ley
Auguste Meiners, nee Hellwig
Hanna Harbers, nee Schnupper
Hermine Harbers, nee Alberts
Grete Cordes, nee Post
Luise Klinkebiel
Mariechen Theilken, nee Luks
Elli Struß
Mimi Rüschen
Martha Buhr

Source: http://www.hollwege.com/jungmaedel.jpg

Best regards
Torsten

[Heimatschuss]

Hello,

two more pictures.

Top photo:
This lady appears to be a member of the Reichsfrauenführung photographed during a visit of Fanni Luukkonen, the founder of Finland's Lotta Svärd, to Germany.
Source: http://www.sz-photo.de/suddeutsche-zeit ... rvice-neu/

Bottom photo:
Members of the Gaufrauenschaftsleitung of Gau Ost-Hannover in Celle.
Source: http://bpkgate.picturemaxx.com/

Best regards
Torsten

[Heimatschuss]

Good evening,

two more pictures found at http://www.bilder-hochladen.net/files/8r7b-fe-jpg.html. They are said to be copies from a set of slides called 'Reichsfrauenführung'. Perhaps Vikki or some other expert for the Frauenschaft badges can identify what position the lady in the centre of the upper picture held. I noticed the upper black fields look surprisingly narrow when compared with the bright bar above.

Best regards
Torsten

[Vikki]

Perhaps Vikki or some other expert for the Frauenschaft badges can identify what position the lady in the centre of the upper picture held.

I'm no "expert" by a long shot, but I'm sure you knew I wouldn't be able to resist a comment like that, Torsten.

Both of the women with Frau Scholtz-Klink are wearing second-style Frauenschaft badges, which date the photo between 1934-38. However, both enlarging the badge of the woman in the center and looking at it full-scale, it doesn't appear to have a colored border as I expected. That would make her simply a member, rather than on the staff of one of the various geographical levels of NSF administration.

The badge of the woman on the right may have a black border, which would place her as a staff member of the NSF at the Kreis level.

I noticed the upper black fields look surprisingly narrow when compared with the bright bar above.

There was some variation among manufacturers. See for example the difference in proportion of the black fields of the two center members' pins in the photo below.

Best,
~Vikki

[Helge]

http://www.wdr5.de/fileadmin/user_uploa ... -WDR-5.jpg

[Vikki]

Hello Helge,

These are not Frauenschaft ladies, but BdM girls. The insignium on the chest of the girl on the left is a life rune, and a medical trade patch for the BdM. See http://www.bdmhistory.com/research/badges.html#four

Could you also provide a source for the photo, please?

Thanks,
~Vikki