Lord Mayor of Schweinfurt LUDWIG PÖSL (NSDAP) - Autograph

Award certificate for the Cross of Honour for front-line fighters.

 

Issued in Schweinfurt on 15 October 1934.

 

Signed in ink by the Mayor of Schweinfurt of the NSDAP, LUDWIG PÖSL.

 

He was the youngest Lord Mayor of the German Reich!

 

From March 1936 to spring 1945, he was a member of the National Socialist Reichstag for constituency 26 (Franconia).

 

On 12 April 1945, Pösl took his own life by jumping from a window of the Goethe School. The reason was probably the false news he had received that his wife had killed herself and their two children.

 

The document is folded and perforated.

 

Some slight tears at the folds.