Germany, Third Reich. A Leo Schlageter Memorial Society Badge By Rudolf Wächtler & Lange GTRexclude 3rd Class - for Twelve

3rd Class -  for Twelve Years' Service

barbed wire and plumes of smoke in the background

indistinguishable maker's mark on the ring

In die pressed steel

then struck off strength to "R" Wing on August 18th

Germany, Third Reich. A Leo Schlageter Memorial Society Badge By Rudolf Wächtler & Lange GTRexclude 3rd Class - for Twelve(Schlageter Gednchtnis Bund Abzeichen). Constructed of silvered bronze with black enamels, obverse depicts a cross patte with central swastika circumscribed by Schlageter Gedchtnis Bund e. V. (Schlageter Memorial Federation), within oval inscribed Albert Leo Schlageter, 26. Mai 1923 1933 inside of oak leaf wreath, reverse inscribed Schlageter Gedchtnis Bund e. V. Sitz Hannover with makers mark R. Wchtler & Lange, Mittweida, barrel hinge with vertical