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To qualify to wear this badge HJ leaders had to already hold the HJ proficiency badge in silver and score highly in a annual sporting event "fuhrerzehnkampf" comprising of 10 sporting activities. The mini......

With the help of the internet Monty Backer was able to find more info about the history of the school building itself in Egendorf. Here is his writeup, unfortunately the forum suffered a crash and the pics are temporally MIA ... http://www.collectorscommunity.net/viewtopic.php?t=365 Here's a postcard I found on the net showing the Egendorf School building. I didn't think these pins were faked yet, that's until I saw this one on a shifty US dealer site. Very sloppy in its details, not to mention the DIY pin jobbie. If anyone else has more info on these pins please share...

These are interesting pins, they are thought to be graduation pins for those who attended the Staatsschule fur Fuhrertum u.Politik in Egendorf. There are 2 types of pin I have seen, one comes as a stick pin and another in pin back form. They can be found either with 0.800 or 0.900 silver marks. My stickpin: The other in pin back form:

Great items guys. I've still yet to see a period photo of the 1st class pin back in wear. I did spy a post on "another" forum a while back by someone claiming of owning a album with a portrait pic of the badge in wear, alas he had sold it before he made any scans of the priceless photo. doh.

I 2nd that, some great items posted here.

Here's the non portable award with the normal sized badge.

obverse view of a 2nd pattern blood order, struck in 800 silver and serial numbered to reverse.

Yes I'm sure Himmler did get a 1st class decoration as well as did most other highranking SS.

Not the awards awarded to the athletes but awards presented to individuals who helped organize the games themselves. Reinhard Heydrich was one such unsavory character to be awarded the 1st class decoration. The 1st class decoration was worn from the neck and the 2nd class from a ribbon. The 1st class was awarded 767 times with the 2nd class being awarded 3364 times. 1st class decoration(Left) 2nd class decoration(Right) Group pic, decorations with cases of issue.

An original 43mm 2nd class fire brigade decoration medal. Awarded for 25 years long service and worn from a ribbon. The reverse is plain.

Example of common annoying reproduction purporting to be the rare 1st class pin back badge.

First post on this forum so I though I would start with some nice colourful awards to catch your eye. The 1st class fire brigade decoration was awarded at fires for acts of bravery or special achievements. The rare 1st class decoration started life as a large 60mm vaulted pin back badge. But in 1938 it was replaced by a smaller 43mm cross of the same design as the 2nd class (shown last post) but in gilt. Up until 1944 only 147 1st class awards had been awarded. Example of the 1st pattern badge from my collection: Example from a German dealer of obverse and reverse views.