Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, First Pattern Archive a General German Automobile Association

a General German Automobile Association (DDAC) membership pin

containing 187 pages in addition to 53 supplemental pages

measuring 52 mm (w) x 62 mm (h) (without backer)

(3)    Wound Badge in Black with citation dated 8 October 1941

Hessian Landtag (state parliament) and chairman of the FDP Landtag faction

Germany, Wehrmacht. A Wound Badge, First Pattern Archive a General German Automobile Association(Verwundetenabzeichen). Constructed of brass, the obverse consisting of an oval laurel leaf wreath with scalloped edges, joined together at the bottom by ribbon, around a central raised Stahlhelm overlaid by a mobile swastika, on top of crossed swords on a pebbled field, the reverse with a crimped hinge and vertical pinback meeting a round wire catch, unmarked, measuring 38. 40 mm (w) x 42. 43 mm (h), weighing 7. 2 grams, the grade of the badge is