BDM Führerinnen Sportabzeichen (Sports Badge for BDM leaders)

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BDM Führerinnen Sportabzeichen - BDM leader sports badge (HJ-Wiki)


Sportbuch der BDM-Führerin.


Irmgard Schoenfeld, born 24 October 1917
BDM Leistungsabzeichen Bronze, award number 5613
BDM Leistungsabzeichen Silber, award number 121


BDM Führerinnen-Sportabzeichen
Award number 300, Age-group B
Dated 21 July 1944.


Deutsches Reichssportabzeichen für Frauen in Bronze, awarded 21 November 1938




The award of the BDM-Führerinnen-Sportabzeichen (Sports Badge for Female leaders of BDM) has been described in an article in militaria, March-April 2000, by German author Klaus D. Patzwall:


The badge was intended by the Reichsjugendführer (RJF) that the badge should be one of the highest sports-decorations at all. However, since it was instituted on 17 June 1938 it stood in the shadow of several other sports awards. Presently (2000) no contemporary publication mentioning this badge is known to the author (Klaus D. Patzwall). Even all post war publications are neglecting the badge. The only exception is Klaus D. Patzwall: Katalog der Auszeichnungen, already mentioning it in 1992. the institution of the badge stood in connection with the HJ-Führersportabzeichen which was introduced by the RJF three months earlier.


Same as for the HJ-Führer-Sportabzeichen, it has been ordered to start the Führerinnen-Fünfkampf (Pentathlon for female leaders), which took place in 1938 the first time.


On the occasion of the forthcoming contest, the RJF published the institutional orders, which among others read as follows:


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Fantastic documents some lucky person will own them soon no doubt.. and great info Henrik :thumb:
 
Excellent info Henrik :thumb:

As you say, the badge is clearly mentioned in the regulations and also in Günter Kaufmann's 'Das kommende Deutschland' (1940) but I could find no pictures of the badge anywhere and because none were known to have existed I have always assumed that the RJF never got around to actually having the badge produced and issued even though it had clearly been instituted. The letter which is included in the Weitze set could support that theory - or indeed perhaps not as we can't tell exactly why this woman's badge could not be delivered but this letter can easily be interpreted as saying that the badge could not be sent because it did not yet physically exist and that a notification would be published when the badge was indeed available. The fact that not a single example of this badge has ever turned up might support that.

Fantastic to be able to see the badge design at last though!




Related reading:

Ünterführerfünfkampf

HJ Führersportabzeichen
 
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