1937 NSDAP "2. Gautag Brandenburg" Commemorative Woven Tinnie Ribbon

A woven fabric badge produced for the second Gautag (district party day) rally held in Brandenburg in 1937, depicting a raised fist gripping a hammer amid oak leaves, above a gear-and-swastika emblem. The lettering "2. GAUTAG BRANDENBURG 1937" is woven in gold thread against a light blue and white ground. The piece is shown from its printed face and from the reverse side, the latter showing the design faintly through the fabric.

Such woven tinnies were distributed to attendees of regional NSDAP party rally days during the 1930s as inexpensive commemorative badges, produced in large runs specific to each Gau and year.

Gautage were annual district-level rallies staged by the NSDAP's regional Gau organisations to mobilise party members, showcase local leadership, and reinforce ideological cohesion below the scale of the national Nuremberg rallies. Brandenburg formed one of the party's administrative Gaue, each headed by a Gauleiter responsible for propaganda and organisation within the district. The imagery combining a fist and hammer with oak leaves and the swastika-and-gear motif reflected the regime's appeals to industrial labour and the working class, framing National Socialism as a movement uniting workers and nation. Such badges were sold or distributed cheaply to attendees as participation mementos, making them common survivals of the mass party culture of the mid-1930s.