S029476 POLICE NCO'S M43/OVERSEAS CAP INSIGNIA.
(Mützenabzeichen)BACKGROUND: Shortly after Adolf Hitler and the NSDAP, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, (National Socialist German Worker’s Party), ascended to the leadership of Germany, the police, as with almost all civic organizations, incorporated the new style national eagle and swastika on their insignia. The first pattern police insignia to utilize the new style national eagle and swastika was introduced on April 23RD 1934. On June 17TH 1936, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler was appointed to the newly created position of Chef der Deutschen Polizei im Reichsministerium des Innern, (Chief of the German Police in the National Ministry of the Interior), effectively giving him full control of all police agencies within Germany. As a result of this appointment and the restructuring of all the separate German state police into a single national police force new regulations were instituted to bring about uniformity in dress for all police through-out the country. One of the new uniform regulations of June 25TH 1936 was the introduction of a slightly modified second pattern police eagle and swastika to replace the first pattern. The police pattern national eagle was worn on all types of headgear including the visor caps, overseas cap and the M43 field cap. The Weimar Reichswehr, (National Defence Force, Circa 1919-1933), era oval black, red and gold cockade was replaced with a circular cockade in black, white, and red on March 14TH 1933 and was adopted by the Police in April of that year and was utilized through-out the Third Reich period. The insignia utilized on the visor caps was of stamped metal construction while the insignia on the soft caps was generally machine embroidered or woven. Generally officers ranks utilized bright silver/aluminum wire on their insignia while NCO’s utilized silver/grey threads.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: The insignia consists of a machine woven, second pattern, (Circa June 1936-May 1945), Police eagle with out-stretched wings, clutching a canted swastika in it’s talons, encompassed by a vertically oval, oak-leave wreath all in silvery/grey rayon threads positioned below a machine woven national tri-color cockade in black, red and white rayon threads, all mounted on a woven, six sided, police green rayon base.
GRADE ****1/4 PRICE $79.00
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