IMPORTANT: This is not a Nazi era August Wellner serving piece that has been altered in any way to appear to be what it never was. This is a piece of 100% original LAH tableware and Sepp Dietrich and Adolf Hitler may very well have been served from it at one time or another.

This thick 1 pound coffeepot was made by the very famous silver service manufacturer August Wellner & Sohne of Aue in Sachsen (Saxony), probably in 1936, and is very well marked on the bottom. It is very heavy Alpacca metal that was plated with 18 grams of real silver and is so marked. Stamped in to the bottom rim on the LAH side are tiny numbers 835. Officially, this piece of tableware is called a Kaffeekanne in German (coffee serving pot), and is shown in the 1936 Wellner catalog as item number 6090. It could be purchased in the 35 cl in silver plated Alpacca for RM 37 (US$14.80) or in polished Alpacca for RM 29 (US$11.60).

The firm August Wellner & Sohne made silverware and silver service articles for Adolf Hitler and for the Reichschancellery in Berlin. They also made a lot of similar silver plated tableware during the Third Reich which they sold to Nazi paramilitary organizations like the SS, and to hotels and institutions all over Greater Germany. What makes this piece very special is the logo or monogram of the LSSAH (Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler or Personal SS Bodyguards of Adolf Hitler) that Wellner applied to the left side of the coffee serving pot.

That LAH monogram can't be mistaken for anything else - it was used only by the LSSAH and by no one else before, during or after World War II. The monogram was rolled on to the side of the coffeepot with a large steel die under great pressure before plating and was NOT engraved into the metal by hand. The coffeepot has been carefully examined by Third Reich experts Ray & Josephine Cowdery who have provided us with a notarized Certificate of Authenticity for it. It is NOT a piece of silver service from a steamship line or hotel as some uninformed people on internet forums love to speculate. That is perfect nonsense.

The LSSAH Regiment was organized by Sepp Dietrich in 1933 on orders from Adolf Hitler and was provided a home barracks in a military post at Berlin-Lichterfelde. They also had quarters and dining facilities on the Reichschancellery grounds in Berlin, at the Berghof near Berchtesgaden, in Prague and in other places. This elegant coffee serving pot was manufactured by Wellner, probably in about 1936 for the LAH. During the Third Reich a sub-camp of Konzentrationslager Flossenbürg was established in Aue i/S to provide labor for local industries.

The coffee serving pot shows evidence of continued use, about what one would consider normal for table service pieces of this kind that had been in use for a period of six or eight years. A wonderful historical piece in good condition.

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