Mi.571-572 (26.04.1935) Vocation Competition

Mi.571 - 572

Reich Vocational Competition - 'Reichsberufswettkampf'

From 1934 to 1939, centralised professional performance competitions were held in the National Socialist German Reich under the title of the Reichsberufswettkampf (Reich Vocational Competition), in which young people from all professions and companies could take part. It was organised by the German Labor Front (DAF) in cooperation with the Hitler Youth (HJ) and the National Socialist German Student League (NSDStB). The competition covered three or four subject areas: professional practice, professional theory, ideological training, and for girls, home economics.

Source: Wikipedia

Notes: Engraving: Karl Diebitsch. Photogravure printing. Sheets 10 x 10. Swastika watermark. Perf. 14. Quantity issued: approx 1,000,000 sets. Valid until 31.12.1936. A few of these stamps were sold on the 21st April 1935 at a post office In Maria Laach. So there is an official and unofficial FDC.

Karl Diebitsch

Karl Diebitsch (1899 - 1985) was an artist and the Schutzstaffel (SS) officer responsible for designing much of the SS regalia during the Nazi era, including the chained SS officer's dagger scabbard. Diebitsch worked with graphic designer Walter Heck to draft the well-known all-black SS uniform. Also with his business partner, industrialist Franz Nagy, Diebitsch began the production of art porcelain at the factory Porzellan Manufaktur Allach.

On 1st May 1920, Diebitsch joined the Nazi Party (NSDAP). His membership number was 1,436. From 1920 to 1923 he was a member of the Freikorps (Free Corps). Two years after the Beer Hall Putsch Diebitsch went on to complete his formal art training in 1925, followed by several years of living and working in Munich as a painter and graphic artist. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Diebitsch moved his family to Berlin and there joined the Reichsverband Bildender Künstler Deutschlands (National Association of German Visual Artists). In 1932, the new all-black SS uniform was designed by Diebitsch with graphic designer Walter Heck. In November 1933 he joined the SS (membership number 141,990), and in 1937 he re-joined the NSDAP, with a membership number of 4,690,956.

Besides being an artist, Diebitsch was also a reserve officer in the Waffen-SS during the course of the Second World War. He received staff assignments to the SS-Totenkopfstandarte (SS Death’s Head Regiment), SS-Regiment 'Germania', SS-Division 'Wiking' and the Höchste SS- und Polizeiführer Italien (Highest SS and Police Leader Italy). Diebitsch was finally promoted to the rank of SS-Oberführer (senior colonel) on 20th April 1944. After the war, he was pardoned during the Nuremberg trials. In following years Diebitsch worked as a porcelain painter for the Heinrich & Co factory. He died in 1985.

Source: Wikipedia

Contact Brief History to inform us of additional information regarding this page