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hi fellow collectors, This uniform walked into a military shop in Kansas by the veterans son, I recently acquired it and want to share it.Named to Dr. Karl Lapper
This is an odd one. The tunic shows the rank of Obergebietsführer but Dr Karl Lapper appears to have been honourably discharged from the Hitler Youth in 1944 in the rank of Hauptbannführer1.
Lapper's promotions:
Bannführer 1/1937
Oberbannführer 4/1937
Hauptbannführer (had been promoted to this rank by 2/1939 certainly)
In July 1939, Lapper moved to the Reich Propaganda office under Goebbels. Various appointments followed but none of them were with the Hitler Youth.
Lapper finished his NSDAP career in Gau Kärnten where he was the commissarial head of the Reich/Gau propaganda office. At this point he still held the HJ rank of Hauptbannführer.
1Buddrus, Totale Erziehung für den Totalen Krieg p 1176