While we see the vast number of party badges in different forms, shapes and designs, bearing no makers name, some fully marked, and others with just the Ges. Gesch. marking. One is easily tempted to believe that all those pre-RZM party badges was indeed official and sanctioned productions by the party. But the reality is quite another. The young NSDAP worked solely with one supplier between 1920 and 1923. That was Josef Fuess, party member himself and a master goldsmith, based in München.
In 1923 it is likely that a few other makers came along to ease up the demand on Fuess and his sub-contractor in Pforzheim. It is possible that Deschler und Sohn in München was the second maker that started to create party badges. Mostly to ease up the demand pressure on Fuess.…
