WINTERHILFSWERKDES DEUTCHEN VOLKES (WHW) 1930S WELFARE DONATION DRIVE BADGES OF FAMOUS GERMANMEN

THREE WINTERHILFSWERK DES DEUTCHEN PEOPLE (WINTER RELIEF OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE WHW) BADGES. IT DEPICTS THREE FAMOUS GERMAN MEN AND WAS USED IN AN DONATION DRIVE TO HELP THE GERMAN PEOPLE IN THE 1930S.
 
The Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes, (Winter Relief of the German People) commonly known by its abbreviated form Winterhilfswerk, was an annual donation drive by the National Socialist People's Welfare to help finance charitable work.

IT DEPICTS THE FOLLOWING FAMOUS GERMAN PEOPLE:
Helmuth Karl Bernhard Graf von Moltke (1800-1891) was a Prussian field marshal. The chief of staff of the Prussian Army for thirty years, he is regarded as the creator of a new, more modern method of directing armies in the field. 
Heinrich Friedrich Karl Reichsfreiherr und zum Stein (25 October 1757 29 June 1831), commonly known as Baron vom Stein, was a Prussian statesman who introduced many reforms which paved the way for the unification of Germany. 
Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March 1685 28 July 1750) is reputed to be one of the greatest composers perhaps the greatest composer of all time. 
 
THESE BADGES WAS PART OF A BATCH OF GERMAN WW1 AND WW2 ITEMS BOUGHT ON AUCTION. IT BELONGED TO A JOHANN HOPPMAN (BORN 1892 -- ??) WHO FOUGHT IN BOTH WORLD WARS AND SURVIVED TO COME TO SOUTH AFRICA AFTERWARDS.
 
SIZE: 35MMx30MM OVAL
CONDITION: SOME SCRATCHES. PLEASE SEE PHOTOS.
 
WINTERHILFSWERK (WHW):
The Winterhilfswerk des Deutschen Volkes, (Winter Relief of the German People) commonly known by its abbreviated form Winterhilfswerk or WHW, was an annual donation drive by the National Socialist People's Welfare to help finance charitable work.
Initially an emergency measure to support people during the Great Depression, it went on to become a major source of funding and a major component of Germany's welfare state.
Hitler ordered the establishment of the Winterhilfswerk in 1933 and personally opened the first drive, giving out the directive "no one shall be hungry, no one shall freeze".
Donations to the WHW, were voluntary in name but de facto required of German citizens.
It went on to grow rapidly, counting 3.7 million members in 1934 and becoming the second largest mass organisation in Nazi Germany. At the onset of the second world war it had more than 10 milliom members.
 
PLEASE ALSO SEE MY OTHER ITEMS LISTED. I HAVE SOME INTERESTING WORLD WAR 1 AND 2 ITEMS ON AUCTION THIS WEEK. A 1934 HINDENBURG HONOUR CROSS OF WORLD WAR ONE 1914-1918 (DAS EHRENKREUZ DES WELTKRIEGES) AWARDED TO JOHANN HOPPMAN. INCLUDING SOME MILITARY DOCUMENTS OF JOHANN HOPPMAN GIVING AN HISTORICAL INSIGHT INTO THE MILITARY UNITS OF GERMANY DURING WORLD WAR 1 AND 2.
AN ORIGINAL WWII GERMAN 1939 WAR MERIT MEDAL. (KRIEGSVERDIENSTMEDAILLE). ALSO A GERMAN MAY DAY 1938 TINNIE OR DAY BADGE AND SOME 1940S WINTERHILFSWERK (WHF WINTER RELIEF OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE) GLASS BADGES. LASTLY A ST CHRISTOPHERS (FOR PROTECTION) CAR BADGE DATING FROM WORLD WAR 2.