524 Adolf Hitler - Persönliches Mitgliedsabzeichen der Nationalsozialistischen Kriegsopferversorgung (NSKOV).

  The badge gold. The swastika on red enameled background. The Iron Cross black enameled. On thin pin. Gold stamp "750" on the reverse of the guard of the sword hilt. At the top of the oak wreath on the reverse, the finely engraved inscription of Adolf Hitler's name. The reverse of the Iron Cross worked in silver with maker's mark "GAHR" as well as the inscription: "GES. GESCH.". Adolf Hitler was a member, or honorary member, of a number of organizations in his capacity as Führer and Reich Chancellor. The care of war victims of the 1st World War was a special concern of his. The Nationalsozialistische Kriegsopferversorgung (NSKOV) was a welfare institution affiliated with the NSDAP for severely war-damaged persons and front-line soldiers of the First World War. The head (commissioner for war victims) of the NSKOV was Hanns Oberlindober. History In Berlin, before the "seizure of power" in 1933, it had its headquarters in SW 68 (administrative district of Berlin-Kreuzberg) and employed the architect Willy Mühlau. The latter designed several low-cost housing complexes for war invalids in the late 1920s to the early 1930s. The surviving buildings are on Berlin's list of monuments. In 1933, the NSKOV initially retained a degree of autonomy in matters of property and organization. Between 1934 and 1945, it acted jointly with the National Socialist People's Welfare Organization (NSV). Welfare institutions were jointly maintained and health programs organized. The NSKOV also acted as a developer outside Berlin, for example in 1933/34 in Quetzin on the Mecklenburg Lake District and in 1936 in Hamburg-Iserbrook, where the so-called "Frontkämpfer-Siedlung," a settlement of small semi-detached houses, was built on what was then known as "Frontkämpferweg" (today: Wisserweg). With Control Council Law No. 2 of October 10, 1945, the organization was banned by the Allied Control Council and its property confiscated. With Control Council Law No. 5 of October 30, 1945, the NSDAP was dissolved with all its institutions and organizations, and with it the NS war victims' welfare organization. Important badge of the utmost rarity from the personal possession of Adolf Hitler.

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