One of many groups that will be forthcoming from the grandson of the SS Officer and early NSDAP Party member. The family lies in Southern California. Due to the notoriety of the consignor, the name, party number and SS number of the officer is being obscured from all public documents and artifacts, but is provided to the winner of the various groupings that will be emerging over the coming months. This group is centered around a second pattern blood order with no number, to which has been added an original ribbon obtained by me from a collector and not originally part of this group.

This SS Officer was a German pharmacist from Lindau, Bavaria, and an early member of the Nazi Party (membership no. 144,xxx) and SS (no. 6,5xx). He claimed involvement in the Nazi movement as early as 1923 and joined the NSDAP in 1929. By August 1932, he had attained the rank of SS-Scharführer, rising to SS-Truppführer in 1933 and SS-Obersturmführer by 1938. He served with the 29th SS-Standarte, eventually becoming its welfare officer, and also held a district leadership position in the National Socialist People's Welfare organization (NSV).

This group includes a personal letter to a leader in the Reichskriegsflagge, asking for permission to join the Putsch. The RKF was a nationalist paramilitary organization founded in Munich in October 1923 under the leadership of Ernst Röhm. Closely allied with Adolf Hitler’s early Nazi movement, the group opposed the Weimar Republic and sought to overthrow the government. Its members, including Heinrich Himmler, participated in Hitler’s failed Beer Hall Putsch of November 8–9, 1923.

Included in this group is a personal statement from the officer. Dated October 29, 1932, it explains his early involvement in the Nazi movement and his reasons for joining the SA and later the SS. He recalls attending a gathering near Augsburg on June 21, 1923, following the prohibition of an NSDAP midsummer celebration, during which he silently pledged loyalty to Adolf Hitler. He states that he joined the SA the following day and remained active until November 1923. After completing his university studies, he returned to the Nazi movement, developing a deeper ideological commitment through his study of National Socialism. By 1932, he was serving as an unpaid SS member in the 29th SS-Standarte, describing his service as an expression of his loyalty to Hitler and commitment to Nazi ideology.

We also have a letter dated 1935, wherein his application for the prestigious Blood Order was rejected because he did not meet the participation requirements for the November 1923 Munich uprising. While he was initially rejected for the first issue of the Blood Order, this rare un-numbered 2nd pattern was part of the estate, indicating that at some point (perhaps very late in the NSDAP period), he received the order.  

The blood order itself is a textbook 2nd pattern, but one of the very few with no number affixed to it.  Also included with the group is an original NSDAP personnel record card (Personalbogen or Personalkarte) for the officer, prepared for the Nazi Party's Office for People's Welfare (Amt für Volkswohlfahrt) in Gau Schwaben, Augsburg.

Forthcoming from the family are several uniform articles, more documents, photos, a few medals, and other SS material, including his Totenkopf ring and Document (dated 1935 and bearing a genuine ink signature), SS candlestick and document, and other historic artifacts. The officer did not serve in WW1 due to his age. Please note: the medal only appeared briefly in the catalogue as a place-holder until the relevant portions of the document group could be isolated, translated, and posted.