RDHdw

The RDHdw came about from the Handwerks, Handels und Gewerbe Organisierung = National Socialist Handicraft, Commerce and Industry Organization), which was created in 1933, out of the earlier “Kampfbund des Gewerblichen Mittlestandes” (Fighting]-league of-the Industrial Middle-classes). In 1934 it fell under the DAF, (Deutsche Arbeitsfront) (German Labor-front), control and eventually the ‘Gesamtverband des deutschen Handwerks, Handels und Gewerbes’ (Total-association of-the german Handicrafts, Commerce and Industry), which became the RDHdw, “Reichsstand des deutschen Handwerks” (National-class of-the german Handicrafts). The organisation survived the war and continued to exist till 1994.