Germany, Ordnungspolizei. A Lot of Service Passes to Decorated Officers, with Postcard

(Ordnungspolizei Dienstpässe). A lot of Dienstpässe (Service Passes) to decorated Ordnungspolizei Officers, including:

1. One constructed of a card stock binding with 32 paginated interior pages, featuring stamped and handwritten entries named to Schutzpolizei (Reserve) Leutnant Anton Braunstein, a veteran of the First World War who served with Infanterie-Regiment 47 (Austro-Hungarian Army), who entered service with Bundespolizei Graz as a provisional Wachmann on 1 May 1919, remaining in service following Austria’s absorption into Germany, whereupon he also joined the NSDAP on 2 January 1940 with membership number 7,925,586, earning a number of awards including the Silver Bravery Medal II Class (twice), the Bronze Bravery Medal, the Karl Troop Cross, the Austrian War Commemorative Medal, the Tyrol Commemorative Medal, the Police Long Service Award I Class for 25 Years, the Honour Cross of the World War 1914/1918 for Combatants, and the Air Defence Honour Decoration II Class, measuring 10.5 cm (w) x 15 cm (h), accompanied by Braunstein’s matching Dienstausweis (Identity Pass), constructed of green oilcloth, featuring handwritten entries for service from 1939 until 1942, retaining a certified studio portrait of Braunstein, measuring 7.5 cm (w) x 10.5 cm (h), both demonstrating minor material fatigue, a matching set to a distinguished Officer in extremely fine condition.

2. One constructed of a card stock binding with 32 paginated interior pages, featuring stamped and handwritten entries named to Hauptwachtmeister Josef Hieden, a veteran of the First World War who entered service with the pre-Anschluss Bundespolizei Graz as a provisional Wachmann on 13 May 1920, remaining in service following Austria’s absorption into Germany, attaining the rank of Hauptwachrmeister on 1 October 1938, earning a number of awards, including the Bronze Bravery Medal, the Karl Troop Cross, and the Sudetenland Medal, measuring 10.5 cm (w) x 15 cm (h), accompanied by Hieden’s matching Dienstausweis (Identity Pass), constructed of green oilcloth, featuring handwritten entries for service from 1940 until 1944, retaining a certified studio portrait of Hieden, measuring 7.5 cm (w) x 10.5 cm (h), both demonstrating minor material fatigue, a matching set in extremely fine condition.

3. One Soldbuch, constructed of a card stock binding with 36 paginated interior pages, featuring stamped and handwritten entries to Josef Kaubert, who served with the Hilfspolizei (HiPo) and SS-Polizei-Regiment 24, posted to Den Haag (The Hague) and France for the duration of the war, measuring 11 cm (w) x 15 cm (h), accompanied by Kaupert’s matching Dienstausweis (Identity Pass), constructed of green oilcloth, featuring handwritten entries for service from 1943 until 1944, retaining a certified studio portrait of Kaupert, measuring 7.5 cm (w) x 10.5 cm (h), both demonstrating moderate material fatigue, in overall better than very fine condition.

4. A Polizei postcard, constructed of paper stock with multi-coloured ink, the reverse featuring a dedication to the 1942 Day of German Police, with a handwritten inventory number, otherwise unmarked, measuring 10 cm (w) x 14.5 cm (h), in extremely fine condition.