Reich women's leader Scholtz-Klink speaks Nr.41 photographic postcard

Reich women's leader Scholtz-Klink speaks Nr.41 photographic postcard. Produced by Verlag Intra in Nuremberg. Printed by Norris-Verlag in Nuremberg. Black and white photo. Measures 103 x 148 mm. With postmark, green postage stamp and handwritten message on the back. In good condition with minor signs of wear.

Gertrud Emma Scholtz-Klink, born Treusch, later known under the alias Maria Stuckebrock (9 February 1902 – 24 March 1999), was a member of the Nazi Party best known as the leader of the National Socialist Women's League. She headed numerous other Party and government organizations for women and was the most prominent female official in Nazi Germany. Following the end of the Second World War, she underwent denazification proceedings and was adjudged a "major offender". A non-repentant Nazi, she lived another half-century and published a book in which she professed her continued belief in Nazi ideology.

Scholtz-Klink joined the Nazi Party in March 1930 and her membership was backdated to 1 September 1929 (membership number 157,007). As an early Party member, she later would be awarded the Golden Party Badge. In October 1930, with the support of her patron, Gauleiter Robert Heinrich Wagner, she was appointed leader of the Party's women's organization in Baden. By 1931, she also attained the leadership of the women's organization in Hesse. A gifted orator, she traveled throughout southwestern Germany recruiting women to the Party. In 1933, Wagner brought her into the Baden interior ministry as a consultant on women's issues and made her a leader of its labor service.

About a year after the Nazi seizure of power, Scholtz-Klink moved to Berlin on 1 January 1934 when Konstantin Hierl, head of the Reich Labor Service, appointed her as the leader of the German Women's Labor Service (Deutscher Frauenarbeitsdienst), a post she would retain until April 1936. Additional appointments followed in rapid succession. She was made the Reichsführerin of the Party's National Socialist Women's League (NSF) and the larger mass organization Deutsches Frauenwerk (German Women's Association) on 24 February 1934. She also was made leader of the Women's League of the German Red Cross in June and of the Women's Bureau of the German Labor Front in July. Additionally, she had the honor title of Reichsfrauenführerin (Reich Women's Leader) bestowed upon her by Adolf Hitler in November. She was made a member of the Academy for German Law in 1937.