NSDAP TeNo Stick Pin-This features the motto of the TeNo organization in enamel. It has minor wear only with some slight scuffing on the upper right arm of the black enamel swastika. The pin is straight. This is an issue piece with a serial number marked on the reverse. The enamel work on the front is outstanding. Knurled stickpin. Good condition! We have several of these and the one you receive will be as good if not better than the one in the photo.
History: TeNo, Technischen Nothilfe (Technical Emergency Corps), was originally established in September 1919, of trained, voluntary, civilian personnel to maintain and repair essential services in the event of a natural disaster or emergency. Many of its personnel were ex-service men, and a large amount of them had some type of specialized technical training which was key to its mandate. TeNo was a civilian organization administered under the Minister of the Interior, until mid-1939, when it became an official State organization under control of the Police, which in turn was controlled by the SS. With this change in status, a small nucleus of salaried officials was employed to run the organization. As the war dragged on, TeNo became increasingly a para-military organization with its direction becoming more controlled by the Waffen-SS.