Description
Physical description
Single-breasted four-pocket jacket of grey-green fabric with dark brown stand & fall collar and matching cuff facings. The jacket is fastened by eight silver stipple-pattern button to the front, with two arranged vertically to each cuff, to each pocket, and four to the rear skirts. Breast pockets are pleated but the lower skirt pockets are of angled slash form, the flaps being scalloped, echoing those at the breast pockets. The collar is decorated with light green truppenfarbe to the lower edge, as are the top edges of the cuffs and false pocket decoration to the rear skirt. Bright aluminium thread double-litzen collar patches are fitted, worked on a light green backing and edged with twisted wire. The epaulettes are of police form of dark brown edged with bright aluminium with brown chevron decoration, worked on a light green field. To the left upper sleeve is a Police eagle, machined in light green on a grey-green field.
There is a contemporary repair to the left lower sleeve (rear), being a patch of uniform cloth being skilfully added.
Label
The Schutzpolizei (a branch of the Ordnungspolizei) were the regular uniformed police stationed in larger towns and cities within the Reich. New uniforms were adopted in 1936 that incorporated a new standard form of shoulder strap decoration, arm eagle, and rank system modelled on that used by the Army, this being an example of an upgraded jacket of pre-1936 origin. The sleeve eagle often featured the district name to indicate the man's working location in the case of those employed in police jurisdictions. The distinctive colouring of the epaulettes, collar patches, trim and arm badge of this jacket being of police green Truppenfarbe, indicate that this NCO served in one of three various police formations: Schutzpolizei (including the 'Barracked Police' – Kasernierte Polizeieineiten); Polizei-Schützen-Regimenter (Rifles Regiments), SS-Polizei –Schützen-Regimenter (from 1943 all police rifles regiments were renamed), or in one of the initial units that later became the 4.SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division.
History note
In 1936 the uniforms of all police groups were redesigned. The Schutzpolizei (SchuPo) were the regular police, located in the larger towns and cities of the Reich. There uniforms (belts, boots, shakos) were trimmed with black whereas those of the Gendarmerie (rural police) were brown.
On the left upper sleeve was worn a police eagle with often the district name embroidered above.
Inscription
17. (E) J.R.15
IIII
1934
Inscription
Schupo Tunic
Restored Nov.
1975.
Removed all old
stitching where
insignia was rremoved.
Following insignia
replaced: Collar patches
shoulder straps arm eagle.
Cleaned.