1937 German Factory Christmas Celebration Commemorative Ribbon Badge - Spinnstoffwerk A.G. Glauchau
A woven silk ribbon badge printed with a DAF (German Labour Front) gear-and-swastika emblem surrounded by radiating rays, above an illustrated candle with fir sprig and pinecone. Printed text reads "Weihnachtsfeier 1937 Spinnstoffwerk A.G. Glauchau A.G. Glauchau" with a stylized "G" monogram beneath, bordered in orange along the edges.
Such ribbons were distributed at company-organized Christmas celebrations under the Nazi-era labour organization, commemorating workplace festivities at the Spinnstoffwerk textile firm in Glauchau, Saxony, in 1937.
The Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF), successor to the banned trade unions after 1933, organised workplace social and cultural events across German industry as part of its "Kraft durch Freude" (Strength Through Joy) programme, which sought to bind workers to the regime through leisure and welfare provisions. Company Christmas celebrations of this kind were common features of this effort, combining traditional festive customs with National Socialist labour ideology. Spinnstoffwerk A.G. was a textile manufacturing firm based in Glauchau, Saxony, a town long associated with the German textile industry; this ribbon badge commemorates its 1937 staff Christmas function.
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A woven silk ribbon badge printed with a DAF (German Labour Front) gear-and-swastika emblem surrounded by radiating rays, above an illustrated candle with fir sprig and pinecone. Printed text reads "Weihnachtsfeier 1937 Spinnstoffwerk A.G. Glauchau A.G. Glauchau" with a stylized "G" monogram beneath, bordered in orange along the edges.
Such ribbons were distributed at company-organized Christmas celebrations under the Nazi-era labour organization, commemorating workplace festivities at the Spinnstoffwerk textile firm in Glauchau, Saxony, in 1937.
The Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF), successor to the banned trade unions after 1933, organised workplace social and cultural events across German industry as part of its "Kraft durch Freude" (Strength Through Joy) programme, which sought to bind workers to the regime through leisure and welfare provisions. Company Christmas celebrations of this kind were common features of this effort, combining traditional festive customs with National Socialist labour ideology. Spinnstoffwerk A.G. was a textile manufacturing firm based in Glauchau, Saxony, a town long associated with the German textile industry; this ribbon badge commemorates its 1937 staff Christmas function.
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