GERMAN WWII ADJUTANT TO ADOLF HITLER WILHELM BRUCKNERS FREIKORPS PASS AND INSIGNIA.

A rare item from the Third Reich period being the 15th June 1919 ausweis issued to Wilhelm Bruckner. The single folded hard card ausweis with the photograph of Bruckner wearing First War officers visor and First War officer’s tunic with his Freikorps insignia on his left sleeve, photo over stamped with the issue stamping of Schutzen Regiment No.10 of Freikorps Epp. This original insignia is included with the card. Wilhelm Bruckner grew up in Baden Baden, he was an officer in the Bavarian army and was discharged at the end of WWI. He joined Freikorps Epp and served in Schutzen Regiment 42 as a member of the Reichswehr in suppressing the Bavarian Soviet Republic. In 1922 he joined the NSDAP and became a leader of the Munich SA regiment. On 9th November 1923 Bruckner took part in the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, which as a result he was sentenced to a year and a half in prison. He was released 4 ½ months later and once again took over his old SA regiment’s leadership. Bruckner was appointed Chief Adjutant to Hitler on the 20th February 1934 and retained that role until being dismissed on the 18th October 1940. In that role he supervised all of the Fuhrer’s personal servants, valets, bodyguards and adjutants, he therefore counted amongst those who were Hitler’s innermost personal circle, playing as one of Hitler’s closest confidants next to Josef Goebbels and Sepp Deitrich in the propaganda film Hitler Uber Deutschland in 1932. On the 9th November 1934 he appointed an SA Obergruppenfuhrer by Hitler, he was succeeded in his role as Hitler’s adjutant by Julius Schaub. Bruckner went into the army becoming a Colonel by the end of the war, captured by the US Forces , he was sentenced to under 4 years imprisonment and died in 1954 in Bavaria. A rare artefact of Hitler’s innermost circle. Much more further in-depth research is available via the internet.

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