Niederwurzbach police sleeve eagle

[saginaw]

I came across some nice patches and wanted to show them. These are the first that i saw from niederwurzbach.

[HPL2008]

I came across some nice patches and wanted to show them. These are the first that i saw from niederwurzbach.

That's not surprising, really.

Niederwürzbach (part of the municipality of Blieskastel) only had a population of around 3,000 during the Third Reich and couldn't have had a very large fire brigade.

(That's what the sleeve patch is for.)

[saginaw]

Thank you for the informative reply! At first I thought it was fire brigade, but while looking on lakeside trader I saw a similar sleeve eagle that was referred to as a NCO police eagle.

[BOB COLEMAN]

Moved to the Polizei Forum. Dealers do not always describe items correctly. On one of the most legitimate sites I know of, anything black and SS is always incorrectly described as "Allgemeine SS."

[HPL2008]

Thank you for the informative reply! At first I thought it was fire brigade, but while looking on lakeside trader I saw a similar sleeve eagle that was referred to as a NCO police eagle.

That's not quite right, but not completely wrong either, as from 1936 on, the fire brigades [Feuerwehren] wore police-style sleeve- and cap eagles. What makes this identifiable as a Feuerwehr sleeve patch specifically is the combination of crimson branch color on dark blue cloth.

After 1933, the professional, full-time fire brigades [Berufsfeuerwehren] and the volunteer fire brigades [Freiwillige Feuerwehren] held the status of a special police executive branch [Polizeiexekutive besonderer Art]. From 1936 to 1939, they were collectively referred to as the Firefighting Police [Feuerlöschpolizei].

In 1939, the majority of the Berufsfeuerwehren were transformed into the new Fire Protection Police [Feuerschutzpolizei], became a part of the police force proper and thus wore mottled-green police uniforms. (Those that weren't taken into the FSP were downgraded to Freiwillige Feuerwehren.)
The Freiwillige Feuerwehren had the status of a technical auxiliary police [technische Hilfspolizei] and were under police control, but retained the dark blue uniform until the end of the war.
Branch color for both the FSP and the FW was carmine.