Rob Johnson
5th August 2008, 02:22
Hello all,
I’d like to share with you a very small but significant grouping from my collection (not to mention one of my personal favorites) - a document and ID grouping to Knight’s Cross recipient SS-Sturmbannführer Georg Karck, which consists of his SS-Führer-Ausweis, NSDAP membership book, SA sports badge doc and death card. I also have some other paperwork (including his DRL sports badge book, Leiftungsbuch and a few other pieces) but I am limited on space right now and unfortunately I cannot display them all.
Born on 11 June, 1911 in Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Karck had quite an impressive career with the SS; he joined in 1931 with SS number 17,690 and served in the 4.SS Standarte. Karck was an early member of the LSSAH and also one of the original members of SS-Sonderkommando-Berlin (formed in 1933.) On 30 June 1934, Karck participated in the Röhm purge for which he was awarded a Himmler honor dagger (which now resides in a very good friend’s collection.)
Karck fought in Poland, France and Russia, won his Knight’s Cross in 1943, and by the spring of 1944 was stationed in France with the 1.SS.Panzer-Division as commander of 9./SS.Pz-Gren.Rgt.2. Karck was a SS-honor ring recipient, and in addition to the Knight’s Cross received the DKiG (posthumously), EKII, EKI, CCC in bronze, Tank Destruction badge, PAB in bronze, Eastern Front medal and wound badge in black. Karck was killed on 03.July 1944 in Normandy in a traffic accident when his Schwimmwagen ran into an ammunition truck.
The visor cap is a very early RZM tagged example (circa 1934), completely untouched and in worn but very good condition. If you look closely, you can see that Karck is wearing an identical style visor cap in his SA sports badge possession doc- early style Totenkopf, chinstrap and all. The SS Armband is also a very early 1934 RZM tagged example, as is the shoulder strap (also RZM tagged, 1937) The SS-Zivilabzeichen is not Karck’s (his SS-ZA # was 11,712).
Also on display is a fully researched serialized Herder SS Dagger. The research file is over 2" thick and contains over 50 pages and 7 photos of the original owner; it's just chock full of material. But I’ll save that for another post :biggrin:
Hope you enjoy the pictures.
Rob
I’d like to share with you a very small but significant grouping from my collection (not to mention one of my personal favorites) - a document and ID grouping to Knight’s Cross recipient SS-Sturmbannführer Georg Karck, which consists of his SS-Führer-Ausweis, NSDAP membership book, SA sports badge doc and death card. I also have some other paperwork (including his DRL sports badge book, Leiftungsbuch and a few other pieces) but I am limited on space right now and unfortunately I cannot display them all.
Born on 11 June, 1911 in Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Karck had quite an impressive career with the SS; he joined in 1931 with SS number 17,690 and served in the 4.SS Standarte. Karck was an early member of the LSSAH and also one of the original members of SS-Sonderkommando-Berlin (formed in 1933.) On 30 June 1934, Karck participated in the Röhm purge for which he was awarded a Himmler honor dagger (which now resides in a very good friend’s collection.)
Karck fought in Poland, France and Russia, won his Knight’s Cross in 1943, and by the spring of 1944 was stationed in France with the 1.SS.Panzer-Division as commander of 9./SS.Pz-Gren.Rgt.2. Karck was a SS-honor ring recipient, and in addition to the Knight’s Cross received the DKiG (posthumously), EKII, EKI, CCC in bronze, Tank Destruction badge, PAB in bronze, Eastern Front medal and wound badge in black. Karck was killed on 03.July 1944 in Normandy in a traffic accident when his Schwimmwagen ran into an ammunition truck.
The visor cap is a very early RZM tagged example (circa 1934), completely untouched and in worn but very good condition. If you look closely, you can see that Karck is wearing an identical style visor cap in his SA sports badge possession doc- early style Totenkopf, chinstrap and all. The SS Armband is also a very early 1934 RZM tagged example, as is the shoulder strap (also RZM tagged, 1937) The SS-Zivilabzeichen is not Karck’s (his SS-ZA # was 11,712).
Also on display is a fully researched serialized Herder SS Dagger. The research file is over 2" thick and contains over 50 pages and 7 photos of the original owner; it's just chock full of material. But I’ll save that for another post :biggrin:
Hope you enjoy the pictures.
Rob