Article about: I have asked the Dagger guys for some help, but it seems their knowledge is pretty limited as well. Speculation is that the DRB/WSP was stationed primarily in Northern Germany, and supervise
...at least I am 95% sure that this is what organisation this hat belongs to. There is very little written about this organisation, and my limited research reflects that the purpose of the DRB-WSP was to protect rolling stock during transfer to watercraft for transport by sea. I cannot find any pics of this organisation, nor the regs for the same, but they did exist--they even had their own dagger (albeit only about 6 exist in collections to this day).
Apparently, they were absorbed by the Bahnschutzpolizei in 1941, and therefor never transitioned to the new insignia:
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
Hat has the standard civil M-38 eagle, commonly worn by the DRB. It is not pinned thru the lining. Therefore, we can date this cap to the 1938-41 period.
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
Side view of the band. Chinstrap is leather, buttons are the standard NCO type of the DRB. Visor is the common water-service bill (most often seen on KM NCO visors):
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
Here is a Railway Water Protection Police dagger (not mine, I believe its from Gottliebs site). These were all made by Eickhorn, and are in the Eickhorn catalog. They were all made in silver, although there is one gold prototype:
“Show me the regulation, and I’ll show you the exception.”
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