Bundeswehr Marine uniforms

[Gordon Craig]

The pants and jacket seem cut very large. Possibly to wear over the regular uniform. The pants are hel up by suspenders with two tabs, with buttons, at the back and one tab with a button on each side at the front. The back is higher then the front. Probably to allow for the jacket riding up when the wearer baends over. There are a couple of eyelegs with laces on each side for waist adjustment. There are eyelets and laces on the outside of the botton of each leg to allow them to be tightened around the boots. There would not be room to put the pant legs inside the boots. That would defeat part of the purpose of the pants anyway.

[Gordon Craig]

The two suspender tabs on the front. It would appear that there were specific suspenders for these pants that did not come with my uniform.

[Gordon Craig]

The laces at the botton of the leg.

[Gordon Craig]

The front hip pockets close with a zipper.

[Gordon Craig]

The makers label on the pants.

[Gordon Craig]

The jacket also uses a combintion of zippers and laces. A large zipper closes the front opening, which you can see in the first foto. And there are zippers on both sleeves.

[Gordon Craig]

This photo shows the laces on the side of the pants on the jacket for waist adjustment.

[Gordon Craig]

The label in the jacket.
The leather in both pieces of this suit is amazing flexible considering how old it is. There are pictures of the pants with zippers at the bottoms of the legs instead of laces. I suspect they were used before the laces but have no proof of that.

[Asbjoern]

I have no idea what these numbers indicate but they are commonly found on BW boots.

This number contains a lot of information on the boots (shoes)... size (in this case in "Pariser Stich" notation as continental size 43, later (today) the "Mondopoint" notation is taken, 43 then would be "275") , then a chiffre for the width ( 8 ), the date of production (month and year, in this case 05 74 for may 1974) and as last a code number for the manufacturer (38) ...


Jens

[Gordon Craig]

Jens,

Thanks for an explanation of the numbering system used in BW boots. Very useful information. Something that I am sure I will find useful in the future.

Regards,

Gordon

[Oberbootsmann]

Hi Gordon. If you need some information regarding German Marine / Navy Uniforms just let me know. I've served almost 17 years in the German Navy (Marinefliegergeschwader II).

Regards, Matthias

[Gordon Craig]

Matthias,

Thanks for the offer to help with marine uniforms. It doesn't seem to be a very popular area to collect so there is limited information available from other BW collectors. Your assistance will be very valuable. Shortly I'll be posting some of my marine items and you will be able to fill in the information that I might not be aware of.

Regards,

Gordon

[uscob]

Later I'll post some Pics of originally packed U-Boat Trousers. Got 4 of them unused in size 50.
The Label say's something with Trousers Leather or so for "Seemännisches Personal"
Nico

[Collectinsteve]

The BW must have dumped many hundreds (thousands?) of the U-Boat sets on the open market all at once. They are all over eBay and even one major reseller here in the US has them for sale now. They rarely purchase anything in numbers less than hundreds.

Steve

[SprogCollector]

Gents,
Pretty sure the grey leather jackets/trousers were general issue for all shipboard personnel, not just U-boat crews. Here are some shots from the early 1960s