Unknown cap ?

**michael giertz** · 08-10-2016, 04:39 PM

Hi ! Guys.
Any thoughts on this peaked cap ?
It has been said that it belongs to the Ministry of Propaganda ?...
But i have never seen anything like this before.
Sold by a militaria dealer in Sweden.
Best regards:
Michael.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 08-10-2016 04:39 PM

We also buy and trade your items and full collections!

**stonemint** · 08-10-2016, 04:52 PM

No, definitely not propaganda.
IMO, it is a BRD civil visor with added TR insignia.
Can you get interior photos?

**BOB COLEMAN** · 08-10-2016, 04:53 PM

More detailed pictures are required of both the outside and inside to form a judgement. It would be very easy to add a civil eagle and cocarde to any blue visor cap. I would like to see some documentation from the dealer as to how he attributes this cap. I always felt members of the propaganda ministry wore the political leader uniform.

**Wilhelm Saris** · 08-10-2016, 05:09 PM

As Bob says: better photos would be okay.
It could be Zivilkraftfahrer. Maybe?

**michael giertz** · 08-10-2016, 05:41 PM

Thanks !
This is the only one i have..

Michael.

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 08-10-2016, 05:45 PM

Well, it is plainly not a "BRD" cap, if it was made in Vienna before or after the year 1945.

Austria was no longer a part of the Greater German Reich after May 1945.

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 08-10-2016, 05:48 PM

My friend ErWeSa is the personage to consult on things Austrian in these spaces.

**Wilhelm Saris** · 08-10-2016, 05:48 PM

Had a quick look in my files and must conclude it is not a
Zivilkaftfahrer!

It is close to "Kraftdroschkenführer", which is a sort of
taxi-driver (often a coach). But then the insignia is wrong, as far as I know.
Maybe in later years such person was allowed to use the state eagle, which
occasionally was allowed by state personnel.