Ortsgruppenleiter Kampfbinde

**FALLSCHIRMJAGER** · 10-11-2013, 05:03 PM

It's arrived guys and I am so pleased with this one. Once again thanks to Andreas(HPL) for "setting me straight" with the correct classification for this armband.

(I posted a new thread for the future reference of others) It is a real beauty in my eye's and one I am going to cherish. I hope you chaps like it too! Leon.

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 10-11-2013 05:03 PM

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**KradSpam** · 10-11-2013, 05:13 PM

That's a lovely thing Leon. How far up the ladder is this rank exactly? I am not too familiar with the political system. These armbands really epitomize the period, they are such a strong 'trademark', if you like, as much as the shape of the stahlhelm or a stick grenade etc. I have a single SS example but I could happily have a box frame full of these, congrats

**FALLSCHIRMJAGER** · 10-11-2013, 05:18 PM

Hi Krad , from what Andreas informs me this one could cover two or three "ranks" at the local level(ie town/ city).That said it is at the "top end" of city officials if not the very top chap in that area! Leon.

**Glenn66** · 10-11-2013, 05:23 PM

I love it!!!

**BOB COLEMAN** · 10-11-2013, 06:09 PM

Depending on where the Ortsgruppenleiter lived, he would be the political leader of a small town or possibly only a block or two in a large city. With the 1939 pattern uniform, the armband denoted the wearer's position and the collar tab his paygrade.