THE JOHN PEPERA COLLECTION, SS-Obergruppenführer August Heissmeyer - a Matching Pair of Golden Party Badges of the NSDAP, Deschler produced 30 mm gilt Tombak with inset silver-plated, enamelled party badge. Party member number ""21573"" on reverse with vertical pin. Stamped incuse ""GES. GESCH."" above channel and vent hole. 24 mm of same construction, condition and matching number on reverse with horizontal pin. Attachment plate stamped ""Jos. Fuess München"". August Heissmeyer (or Heißmeyer - 11 January 1897 in Gellersen - 16 January 1979 in Schwäbisch Hall), was a leading member of the SS. After World War II, Heissmeyer was sentenced to a prison term as a war criminal. He joined the NSDAP in 1925, the SA in 1926, was responsible for building up the SA-Gausturm Hannover-Süd, and for a time was the acting Gauleiter. He joined the SS in January 1930, was an associate at the SS main office from 1932. In 1935 he was ""Head of the SS Main Office"", relieving Heinrich Himmler from that specific position. On 9 November 1936, Heissmeyer was appointed SS-Obergruppenführer and Inspector of the National Political Institutes of Education (NPEA). In 1939, Heissmeyer was appointed SS-Oberabschnittsleiter ""East"" and in 1940 ""Higher SS and Police Leader Spree"", overseeing the Berlin-Brandenburg area. With the outbreak of the Second World War, Heissmeyer set up the ""Dienststelle SS-Obergruppenführer Heissmeyer"" - his own bureau - and was thereby responsible for NPEA students' military training. August Heissmeyer took over the General Inspection of the strengthened SS-Totenkopf Standarte in 1940 from the outgoing Theodor Eicke, who in 1939 had begun commanding a front line division and therefore gave his supervision over the concentration camps back to the SS Main Leadership Office (SS-Führungshauptamt). Heissmeyer was provisionally in charge of this bureau until May 1942. Then, he left the position to the new ""concentration camp inspector"" SS-Gruppenfü

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