General Staff Officer Uniform

[Laurence Strong]

Sweet set-up


later
Larry

[marcinkappa]

Hi,
is your OS cap really Generalstabsoffiziere red ?? or artillery ??
Is there any evident difference in color ??

I have got in my collection one OS cap which belonged for 100% to Generalstabs officer but I thought this was his cap before he became stuff officer and earlier he served in artillery. But maybe I`m wrong and this is his General Stuff cap ?? Please have a look.

[DonC]

Marcin, the soutache is most definitely Carminesrot for General Staff or Veterinary service. PS - your OS cap is a screamer!

Don

[don_kihotis7]

Excellent Don, thanks for sharing

[JuanS]

Amazing

Congratulations

Juan

[marcinkappa]

Marcin, the soutache is most definitely Carminesrot for General Staff or Veterinary service. PS - your OS cap is a screamer!

Don

Thanks Don
I know that the owner was GS officer for sure but before attending to the Kriegsakademie in Berlin he was in artillery.

[B-24 Liberator]

Very nicely put together Don..... Congratulations!!!

Gary

[Albert_Steiner]

Such a excellent uniform set!
I have a question about the collar tabs. So the GB officers have special style collar tabs in white, but I've seen a GD officer's tunic(which belongs to an officer who served in WW1) with the collar tabs made of gold wires and sewed on a crimson plate. Is this a pravite purchase or some kind of privilege of those who served in WW1?

[DonC]

Albert, are you confusing the Hermann Göring division with Grossdeutschland? HG units wore the white tabs. Not sure about the gold wires n a crimson backing - OKH staff officers wore gold embroidered litzen on carmine, I believe.


Don

[Johnny R]

The combination of a GD CT and the gold OKH General staff collar tabs would be possible but it would have nothing to do with WWI Service. I think he is talking about the GS field service collar tabs in white cotton on green for the regular service tunic.

[jacquesf]

Albert, are you confusing the Hermann Göring division with Grossdeutschland? HG units wore the white tabs. Not sure about the gold wires n a crimson backing - OKH staff officers wore gold embroidered litzen on carmine, I believe.


Don

Don, you are correct. They did until 1942, I belief. J

[Silberkreuz]

Ohhh lovellllly

Thanks for posting Don

[John Pic]

Nicest uniform I've seen on the forum in a long time.

[Ohlau]

Interesting thing is 17.ID fought under general Max Sachsenheimer in Poland in January 1945 on Vistula river front. /Weichselbrückenkopf.