leather winter panzer cap?

[DerFlieger]

Has anyone ever come across one of these?

[Adrian Stevenson]

If memory serves me correctly, these are a KM cap. Some were pressed into use by the HJ Div.

Cheers, Ade.

[Paul D]

Contemporary photos show members of SS Panzer Regt 12 , HJ wearing this type of cap and U Boat lethers just prior to the Normandy Battles.

[spandau]

Hi

Never seen one in the flesh before but I have seen the pictures of the HJ wearing them as mentioned in the earlier post.

The link to this cap could well be Kreigsmarine angle. If you can get hold or have a copy of uniforms and traditions of the Kreigsmarine by Angolia and Schlicht then p 286 of volume 2 has an example very similar to this cap on it. It is made from bluish-grey leather and has brown fur front and side flaps.

It is in the chapter on special uniforms and states that fur caps were worn in many variations, military and non-military.

I don't doubt that fur caps were worn by as standard when available the only question I ask is whether they were manufactured to order or acquired from civilian stocks. The presence of a label is always useful as a guide especially when it's such a well known maker.

It might be worth asking if they had a contract for making kreigsmarine stuff.

Some of the more knowledgable guys on makers may be able toprovide an answer to that question.

hope this helps in some ways.....

tony

[DerFlieger]

hi guys thanks for the input with some interesting history too i saw this for sale reasonably priced and it looked interesting with the panzer angle, i have seen quite a few period pics with various headwear pressed into service shall we say.

thanks

Jon