German Flag ??? Loberich 1

[40th Alabama]

I have a flag which is red with a white swastika encirled by a gear. The flag is square, about 4' on a side with silver tassles along three sides. It has on the top silver rings. In the upper left hand corner is a leather insert approximately 6" x 8" with the word Loberich 1 inscribed. Does anyone have any idea if this is a regimental flag or what it might be?

Thanks for your help.

[David Layne]

Originally Posted by 40th Alabama

I have a flag which is red with a white swastika encirled by a gear. The flag is square, about 4' on a side with silver tassles along three sides. It has on the top silver rings. In the upper left hand corner is a leather insert approximately 6" x 8" with the word Loberich 1 inscribed. Does anyone have any idea if this is a regimental flag or what it might be?

Thanks for your help.

No. But glad someone else from Alabama is posting here.

[Kyt]

Hi

Have a look at this site and let us know whether it looks similar to this - it's the closest flag that I can think of to the one that you've described (but the colours are slightly different)

http://www.netlinkit.dk/fotw/flags/de%7Dnsdaf.html#daf

[David Layne]

Originally Posted by Kyt

Hi

Have a look at this site and let us know whether it looks similar to this - it's the closest flag that I can think of to the one that you've described (but the colours are slightly different)

German Labour Front (NSDAP, Germany)

This one?

[Kyt]

Yep David, that's the only German Nazi era flag with cogs that I could think of - having said that a war-time occupied -european fascist party might have had a variation of that.

Bloody hell, that's a messy sentence!!

[40th Alabama]

That is pretty close, with the exception of the colors and the flag was aparently designed to be suspended from the top. I'll do some research now on NSDAP and see what I can learn.

Thanks so much for your help.

David,
I was born and grew up in Alabama. Am now in the Stone Mountain area of Georgia. The 40th Alabama was my g Grandfather's (Pvt, Co. B ) and my g Uncle's (Capt, Co. I) Regiment during the War of Northern Agression.

Dont think its the NSDAP in particular you want to research, try the NSFO

[Kyt]

Originally Posted by 40th Alabama

That is pretty close, with the exception of the colors and the flag was aparently designed to be suspended from the top. I'll do some research now on NSDAP and see what I can learn.

Have had a look at a lot of DAF (Deutsche Arbeitsfront - German Labour Front) pictures on the web, and they really don't seem fussy about the clour schemes. As long as the swastika and cog are there, then I've seen black, white and red ones. However, not the one that you've got.

As to hanging fromthe top, that just means that it's a banner instead of a flag.

[Shörner]

Ive found several sites reffering to the Loberichs, a family in Germany.

[Kiwiwriter]

I think that's an NSKK banner. That was the Hitler Youth Motor Corps, which trained HJ kids to drive vehicles. The gears suggest that to me.

It might also be the Deutsche Arbeits Front, the DAF, which replaced the trade unions, when Hitler had them shut down and their leadership put in concentration camps.