Steel Worker Bronze Sculpture by Hans Harders – A Third Reich period Weihnacht Gift, 1936

Hans Harders (1875 Morel in Holstein until around 1955 based in Berlin..) German sculptor and architect, Steel Worker in metal, patinated bronze, signed.  A Weihnacht 1936 gift , dedication reads “Unserem Betriebsführer Weihnachten 1936”.

‘Betriebsführer’ would be translated to Company Leader, and likely the Leading Manager and owner. A gift given by the ‘Betriebsgemeinschaft’ (workers, secretaries, CEO´s and suchlike,  working in or for a specific company) to their boss.