Winterhilfeswekes donation glass token

[Historybuff00]

Hello everyone. Thought I’d share this with you all. I picked this up yesterday. I know it’s not much but little things like this interest me. So from doing research I found that this piece was one of 20 glass tokens of famous German men. They were handed out by the National Socialist People's Welfare. I believe as gift for donated to the charity? Any additional about why this was handed out would be appreciated. Thanks everyone!

[Proud Kraut]

Hans Holbein der Juengere (D.J. - the younger), A German/Swiss painter living in the 16th century.

[Historybuff00]

8 minutes ago, Proud Kraut said:

Hans Holbein der Juengere (D.J. - the younger), A German/Swiss painter living in the 16th century.

Thanks for this. 

[Jack the Collector]

16 minutes ago, Historybuff00 said:

I believe as gift for donated to the charity?

It was the Winterhilfswerk program(winter relief).Most commonly called in the hobby as WHW.The drives were on a National,Gua and town city levels.There is a myriad of donation premiums from these drives.Glass,wood,leather,paper and so on.Heck,last fall I found a miniature harmonica labeled WHW Gau Berlin in a Vets estate,I never knew such existed.

 

[waffenleite]

Sold to raise money for the Winter Helps Work.  Here is a poster for one of the WHW products.

[Blacksmith]

Beware, if you start collecting WHW items, you are in for a long haul - next thing you know, the glass ones don’t do it anymore, so you’re making back-alley deals on the wax flower collection.
 

Six months later, you’re surfing the Interwebs at 2AM trying to find the wooden witch.  
 

After nobody has seen you for three years, you’re spotted - in a waist-length beard - living under a bridge with a cardboard box full of red metal collection cans.

 

You’ve been warned…