RANK & SLEEVE CHEVRONS GERMANY

With this type tape appeared in 1943, presumably to the newly formed Panzer Division “Hermann Goering” .This sample of embroidered silk.

In order to release military personnel performing certain tasks, a special system has been developed chevrons. Wearing their supposed soldiers have certain skills or specialty and rank below the lieutenant.This chevron were pyrotechnics and artillery equipment on the right sleeve.

Chevron junior staff communication services. Color lightning corresponds to the combat arm. We manufacture all types of troops.

Chevron junior staff communication services. Color lightning corresponds to the combat arm. We manufacture all types of troops.

Chaplains worn on the left sleeve of his jacket, overcoat or the cassock.

his chevron, with lace on the field of color “feldgrau” in the German army came to the middle of 1944, when the material resources of the country more and more exhausted. Often you can find the same color gefrayterskoy stripe with the color of his uniform, and Alluminum galloon is sometimes replaced by a light gray silk braid. This was done only because Exclusion desired fabric and braid.

Chevron was supposed to carry the soldiers working in the forge.

Sewn on the right sleeve of his jacket or overcoat.

In order to release military personnel performing certain tasks, a special system has been developed chevrons. Wearing their supposed soldiers have certain skills or specialty and rank below the lieutenant.This chevron worn on the right sleeve orderlies.

Sewn on the right sleeve of his jacket or overcoat.

This chevron with lace and embroidered star on a dark green field, was inducted into the German army in 1921 and until 1942 designated the title – Stabsgefreiter (Staff Corporal). From 1942 to 1945 he designated the title – Obergefreiter (Obergefreiter) that is assigned to the soldiers who had seniority over 6 years.Staff positions corporal in the Wehrmacht was not. This title is usually given obergefrayteram having greater seniority (in peacetime, more than six years), but for whatever reason are not entitled to the title unterofitsir. Some historians, by analogy with an asterisk gefraytera old, and not finding in staffing regiments shtabsgefrayterskih posts mistakenly believe that the Wehrmacht was not shtabsgefrayter titles and two braid with an asterisk denote obergefraytera with great seniority. However, it is not. Rank shtabsgefrayter existed in the Wehrmacht. True met this title is not often because there was little reason to not assign an experienced obergefrayteru unterofitsirsky rank (illiteracy, politically unreliable). Sometimes the rank shtabsgefrayter lowered unterofitsirov who committed serious shortcomings in the service.

This chevron, with lace on a dark green field, was inducted into the German army in 1921 and was originally designated the title – “Corporal”. From 1936 to 1945 he designated the title – “Obergefreiter” that is assigned to the soldiers who had seniority of less than 6 years old.

This chevron with lace and embroidered star on a dark green field, was inducted into the German army in 1936 and designated the title – “Obergefreiter” that is assigned to the soldiers who had seniority over 6 let.V 1942 abolished the chevron.