Bidspirit auction | NSDAP Golden Party Badge Set

NSDAP Golden Party Badge Set for Blood Order Recipient from Nuremberg - This extensive archive centers on a pair of NSDAP Golden Party Badges belonging to Friedrich Joch (numbered 24,898) and his wife Georgine Joch (numbered 24,771) of Nürnberg. Friedrich was an early member of the NSDAP and Bund Oberland, and took part in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch alongside Hitler, for which he was later recognized with Blood Order medal number 1000, a decoration reserved for participants in that event. The accompanying paper archive documents the family from the 1920s through the postwar years, including identification papers, family and military photographs, and a notable series of prisoner-of-war letters Friedrich wrote to Georgine following the war. Together the badges and papers form a continuous personal record of a Nazi Party founding-era figure and his family across two decades.The Golden Party Badge was the NSDAP's highest membership distinction, awarded chiefly to the earliest party members (recognized by low membership numbers) and, in a separate category, as a personal gift from Hitler to individuals he wished to honor. The Blood Order (Blutorden) was instituted in 1933 specifically for those who took part in the abortive Munich Beer Hall Putsch of November 9, 1923, an attempted seizure of power by Hitler and the NSDAP that ended when police fired on the marchers near the Feldherrnhalle; recipients were drawn from a closed, numbered list of participants and were regarded within the party as its founding martyrs and veterans. Bund Oberland was one of the Bavarian paramilitary Freikorps organizations that joined the putsch alongside the SA. Personal papers and wartime correspondence of such early ”Alte Kämpfer” are of interest to researchers for documenting the trajectory of a party veteran's life from the movement's Bavarian origins through the collapse of the Third Reich and its aftermath.