Germany, HJ. A Rare Leader Sports Badge, by Gustav Brehmer Republic of Leutnant Jakob Heff

Leutnant Jakob Heff

for treatment at St

surrounded by a blue enamel ring inscribed THE LOVE OF LIBERTY BROUGHT US HERE

one of which exhibits chipping

70 mm x 120 mm)

Germany, HJ. A Rare Leader Sports Badge, by Gustav Brehmer Republic of Leutnant Jakob Heff(Fhrer Sportabzeichen der HJ). Instituted 6 May 1938 by Baldur von Schirach. (1938 1944). Constructed of gilded tombak with enamel, the obverse consisting of a circular laurel leaf wreath surrounding a black enameled disc, overlaid by a Tyr rune, in turn bearing a central mobile swastika, within a circular ring bearing an inscription of FR LEISTUNGEN IN DER H. J. (FOR MERIT IN THE H. J.), the reverse with a raised barrel hinge and flattened vertical