German NS Deutscher Frontkämpferbund Stahlhelm (NSDFBSt) Leader’s Badge

Extremely rare and excellent badge for the German National Socialist veterans organization. This was for the high leader of the organization. Made in silvered tombac and enamel it is a very unique badge. Measuring 27 mm at the widest point, there are three flat wire prongs on the reverse. Some toning and lose of silvering, but enamel is perfect and over an excellent example.

Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten (German, ‘The Steel Helmet, League of Front-Line Soldiers’), commonly known as Der Stahlhelm (‘The Steel Helmet’), was a German First World War veteran’s organisation existing from 1918 to 1935. It was part of the “Black Reichswehr” and in the late days of the Weimar Republic operated as the paramilitary wing of the monarchist German National People’s Party (DNVP), placed at party gatherings in the position of armed security guards (Saalschutz).It was taken over by the Nazi Party in 1933 and was dissolved in 1935. So, the organization in the form associated with this badge was in existence for only 17 months.