Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Silver Grade, by Gustav Bremher Auction a hotel manager named Sponseil

a hotel manager named Sponseil

both demonstrating minor soiling to the base wool with two additional spots of mothing visible to the base of one board

measures 135 mm (w) x 255 mm (l) x 77 mm (d)

he became a member of a right-wing Catholic student group

Knight Commander (KCIE) and Companion (CIE)

Germany, HJ. A National Trade Competition Victor’s Badge, Silver Grade, by Gustav Bremher Auction a hotel manager named Sponseil(Ehrenzeichen Gausieger im Reichsberufswettkampf 1944). Constructed of silvered zink, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath, surrounding a central white painted disc, overlaid by a raised German national eagle clutching a cogwheel defaced by an HJ insignia, circumscribed by an inscription of GAUSIEGER and a date of 1944, the reverse with a ball hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, maker marked G. BREHMER,