On 15 April 1933 he dismissed "degenerate" professors Willi Baumeister, Max Beckmann, Richard Scheibe, Jacob Nussbaum, Josef Hartwig and other "cultural Bolshevik Jew servants" and turned the Cologne factory schools into a "master school of the Hanseatic city of Cologne". He taught at the Academy Hanauer and later at the Stadel School in Frankfurt as acting director. In the 1920s, he joined the NSDAP and the National Socialist Combat League for German Culture. After an apprenticeship with an engraver in Dresden and education at the Drawing Academy in Hanau, he established his own workshop in Darmstadt in 1913. The ring was made by one of the most prominent of German goldsmiths, KARL BERTHOLD (1889-1975). The globe assembly in turn is attached to a three piece ebony wood pedestal with 16 small pieces of silver trim. The globe bears a fine, small closing catch at top which when opened allows the globe to fall open like a clam shell, revealing a small mobile swastika which supports a curved silver display hook, The ring rests upon this hook. wide, bears one central longitudinal and latitudinal line in relief, meeting at the front to form parts of the arms of a static swastika which appears in relief. The ring is offered complete with the original presentation sterling silver hand-hammered globe and ebony wood pedestal. The ring once had a powder coating of yellow gold, almost certainly 24 karat, but only a hint of that surface remains, with largely only the sterling silver base remaining visible. A raised stylized "KB" hallmark is evident on the inside of the band. The work appears to have been done on a sheet of silver which was then secured to the body of the ring, having been rolled over in bands. When held to the light, all of the rubies on the top of the ring are viewable. In viewing the interior, there is a large mobile swastika "cut-out" which directly conforms with the swastika above. The sides of the ring bear two longer swords which are flanked by wreaths of lightly-veined oak leaves, with blank areas bearing small "berries", all on a lightly stippled background. When viewed from the sides, the swastika rises up much like a city's walls, with tiny upright swords carefully brazed thereto - only careful examination shows one is missing. One tiny ruby in one of the arms is missing and could easily be replaced. Its arms are comprised of 15 multi-faceted rubies which rise from the face of the ring to meet a larger, square five-facet ruby at the pinnacle. wide mobile swastika built-up on four different levels. This massive ring, carefully constructed of multiple parts, displays a 16mm. The most stunning, impressive and desirable of Adolf Hitler's close personal possessions, the famous, long-lost custom-made swastika ring owned by Adolf Hitler. ADOLF HITLER'S "LOST" RUBY AND GOLD SWASTIKA RING
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