KG6 - Execution of Albert Leo
Schlageter, Cast Bronze Medal, 77.00g., 61mm, by Karl Goetz,
1923, a bust of Albert Leo Schlageter, Glüh' heilge Flamme glüh' glüh' u.
erlösche nie für's Vaterland" (Glow Holy Flame! Glow! Glow! Never Die Out
For The Fatherland), rev., Schlageter standing before a French
military firing squad, Ermordet von den Franzosen!" (Murdered by the
French), (Kienast 300), extremely fine. $295
NOW $245
Schlageter was a member of the German
Freikorps (paramilitary units) that used sabotage to resist the post war
French occupation of the Ruhr and Rhineland. He was executed by the French
military on May 26, 1923. His death created an image of martyrdom around
him, which was cultivated by German nationalist groups, in particular the
Nazi's who named military units and a naval vessel after him.
