RAD Bekleidungsamt # ?

[wachmeister]

Hi Guys
Can anyone figure out what Bekleidungsamt # this would be ? My guess is #4 Marburg /Lain ...
Also what is the patch between the stampings for ? There's no damage on the outside of the uniform and I can not feel anything torn on the inside .

Cheers
samo

[wachmeister]

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[wilhelm Saris]

There did exist an RAD Bekleidungsamt at Marburg/Lahn. Others were located at Berlin (before July 1935 known as Bekleidungskammer), Fürth (as Berlin. Since 1940 for the army), Braunschweig, Salzburg and Thorn, which simultaneously was an army Bekleidungslager. Further there was a Technisches Lager des Rad, located at Magdeburg, which since early 1938 was known as RAD-Bekleidungsamt (and since 1940 becoming a Heeres-Geräteamt).
I do not know if there existed more of those. If having time I will look in the RAD Verordnungsblatt about that.

[wilhelm Saris]

Further development, as mentioned in a series of notes in the Verordnungsblatt für den Reichsarbeitsdienst:

April 15, 1942: Thorn was noted as RAD-Bekleidungsamt, simultaneously being a Heeres-Bekleidungslager;
July 14, 1943: The adresses for all were noted with the indication to be a Heeres-Bekleidungsamt for Berlin II, Braunschweig, Fürth, Marburg (Lahn), Salzburg and the earlier mentioned Thorn. Berlin had a status aparte;

In some notes, for example from February 23, 1943, it was mentioned for which RAD-Arbeitsgaue and RAD-regions they were responsible, as that was what they still were intended to do. Taking care for RAD-goods. Magdeburg also was known as Zeugamt.