Feldpost-Sekretär

[Robert Noss]

Hello everybody,

I have these photos in my collection. On the back of the one with the horse, there's a caption which reads:
Feldpost-Sekretär Fuchs mit seinem Liebling - Fieldpost-secretary Fuchs with his darling.



Now I have another photo of the same man:



My question - what badge is he wearing on his cap:



I looked through my Freikorps-book but can not find that badge, so probably not Freikorps.
What is it ?

Kind regards
Robert

[Rick Research]

The upper insignia is the Imperial eagle, over his Bavarian State cockade. In the lower picture and closeup, he is wearing the (I think) red and blue triple striped cap band, whereas on the top photo with horse, he's gone "military" with normal state and Reichs cockades.

Sometime during the war the insignia was changed, or perhaps it was a question of his being a Postal official working for the Feldpost system... and then of MILITARY Beamter status. Though wearing the officers'/military Beamten "Litewka" in the horse photo, he is wearing the older style cap cockade there. In the "eagle" hat photo, he has the M1916 Bavarian State cockade.

I don't know of ANY reference sources on Reichs civil service uniforms in wartime, for service with the military in operational zones.

Nice photos-- hard to find.


Well, for US to find, not for YOU!

[Robert Noss]

Fieldpost in WW 1

when looking on two other photos which are in that group, I recognized that they are also wearing those cap badges, or very similar ones:












And another one:





In that group there are also some postcards, one is adressed to a Feldpostillion. Interesting, I wonder if that was a regular rank ?

And - Rick - You were right. The cap bands are striped in three colors. Sharp eyes my friend.

Kind regards
Robert

[Rick Research]

The first closeup looks like a HESSIAN crown-- they must have called postal officials up individually and thrown them into "composite" units.

[McCulloh]

hmmm...

I have 3 similar photos of the a chap wearing the same postal badge on his cap noted 1915 and 1916 on the back. He is wearing an older ribbon bar (Centl., China, LS). I wonder if the german Postal service museum noted in an earlier post would have wartime uniform details? Would postmen have qualified as "Beamte"?? In WW2 I have seen postal civil servants docs awarding them the KVK2 and Ost medal.
Anybody got any postal doc sets out there?
Cheers,
JeMc