A beautiful and rare badge here. This is a Vaterländischer Frauenverein (VFV - full name: German Patriotic Women's Association for the Care and Aid of the Wounded in War) badge, speficially to be worn by a "Samariterin". The badge is dated 1924 in the center. It is nicely maker marked to the reverse "A.STUBBE BERLIN" and features a working pin and catch. 
 
During World War I, VFV set up war kindergartens. Club hospitals were operated for wounded warriors. All over Germany, the half million women of the VFV had prepared so that, "when war comes," they had taken a first aid nurse's training course. In the first month of the war, no less than 70,000 women of the VFV, trained in first aid to the injured, had arrived at the doors of the Reichstag to offer themselves for Red Cross service. The VFV assembled 29,000 women in Berlin alone to take the course of training arranged for helferinnen, assistants in all phases of relief work. In 1914, Cecilienhaus in Charlottenburg, with its crèche, maternity care, folks kitchens and its working people's gardens, was devoted to the welfare work in which the VFV of the nation was engaged.