Christmas Presentation From Alexander Langsdorff to Heinrich Himmler
$2,800.00
The handcrafted and hand created document is within card covers and it is approximately 8-3/4 inches by 11-1/2 inches. The document itself is nine pages, handwritten in Sutterlin script. The cover has a separately applied “Wolfsangel” rune. The top of the first page has separately applied SS runes. The end of the handwritten pages bears a separately applied swastika. The document was apparently presented at Christmas (“Julfest”) in 1938, and the document references the date of 9 November, 1923, the date of the Beer Hall Putsch. The covers show some soiling and tears. Overall very good condition.
From Wikipedia:
Langsdorff studied archaeology, prehistory , and ancient and Germanic history at the University of Marburg , receiving his doctorate in 1929. Langsdorff took part in archaeological expeditions to Egypt and Iran between 1929 and 1933. In 1932, he and Donald McCown began excavating Tall-i Bakun near ancient Persepolis.
Langsdorff took part in the Munich Putsch on November 9, 1923, supporting Adolf Hitler in his failed attempt to seize power by force of arms. He married in 1931 and divorced on October 2, 1940.
On June 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP, with the registration number 1,657,764, on October 28 of the same year he joined the paramilitary forces SS , with the number 185,091, where in 1944 he reached the rank of SS Standartenfuhrer. He remarried on January 7, 1941, to Marie-Luise Schneidewind , with whom he had two children. Posted to Paris from January 15 to June 24, 1941. Between December 1944 and May 1945 he was assigned to the Department for the Protection of Art, in Italy , where he directed the shipment of art from Florence to Germany .
He died on March 15, 1946, in a hospital in the German city of Eutin , due to a pulmonary embolism . He was a cousin of the captain of the ” Gref Spee “, Hans Langsdorff .