(Traditions-Gau-Abzeichen)

Date Instituted

See below

Requirements

Honor awards with no clear requirements

Number awarded

?

Estimated price (2009)

Saxony, Bavaria, Franconia, Helle-Merseburg, Hessen-Nassau, Magdeburg-Anhalt, Mecklenburg, Lübeck - € 1.400
Berlin - € 4.000
Baden - € 1.800
Thuringia - € 1.800
East Hannover - € 1.500
Danzig - € 4.000
East Prussia - €
Essen - € 2.000
Sudetenland - € 4.500
Wartheland- € 4.500

Gauleiter Dr Otto Hellmuth wearing the Party District Commemorative Badge for Saxony, Bavaria, Franconia, Helle-Merseburg, Hessen-Nassau, Magdeburg-Anhalt, Mecklenburg, Lübeck

(Courtesy of KS)

Unidentified Knight's Cross holder wearing wearing the Party District Commemorative Badge for Saxony, Bavaria, Franconia, Helle-Merseburg, Hessen-Nassau, Magdeburg-Anhalt, Mecklenburg, Lübeck

(Courtesy of Joe Imwalle)

SS-Obersturmführer wearing the Party District Commemorative Badge for Baden

(Courtesy of Joachim Küster)

SS-Obergruppenführer Dr Heinz Reinefarth and Gauleiter Arthur Greiser wearing the Party District Commemorative Badge for Wartheland

(Courtesy of Bundesarchiv/Wikimedia, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 Germany)

Franz Hayler recieves the Knight's Cross to the War Merit Cross from Walter Funk who is wearing the Party District Commemorative Badge for East Prussia

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Comments

Ten different commemorative badges existed and were awarded from various Gaue (Party Districts):
1. Saxony, Bavaria, Franconia, Helle-Merseburg, Hessen-Nassau, Magdeburg-Anhalt, Mecklenburg, Lübeck
The only one awarded in more than one district
Instituted 1933 and awarded in two different versions (1923 & 1925)


2. Berlin
Instituted 1936 and awarded in two different versions (silver and gold)
30 was awarded of the gold version.


3. Baden
Instituted 1933 and awarded in three different versions


4. Thuringia
Instituted 1934 (?)


5. East Hannover
Instituted 1933 and awarded in two different versions


6. Danzig
Instituted 1933-1936 and awarded in two different versions


7. East Prussia
Instituted 1938 and awarded in two different versions


8. Essen
Instituted 1935 and awarded in two different versions (silver and gold)


9. Sudetenland
Instituted Jan 1944, designed by Franz Moser.


10. Wartheland
Instituted 1939. One piece of a special variant with diamonds is known to exist.



Illustrations of the badges from Organisationsbuch der NSDAP 1937

Photo courtesy of William C Stump, Rusfront, The Ruptured Duck, Emedals & Relics of the Reich

Sources used

Christopher Ailsby - World War 2 German medals and political awards
John R. Angolia - For Führer and Fatherland: Political & Civil awards of the Third Reich
David Littlejohn - Orders, decorations, medals and badges of the Third Reich
Detlev Niemann - Price Guide Germany 1871-1945 (2009)