A Berndorfer

**AZPhil** · 10-23-2010, 02:27 PM

Please pardon my ignorance, BUT
What is a Berndorfer?
I can see its a helmet, but I've never seen/heard of one before.
Could someone be so kind as to enlighten me on the subject?

**oradour** · 10-23-2010, 05:21 PM

Phil...have a look here, Austrian Berndorfer #2
Prost ! Steve.

**mclakic** · 10-23-2010, 07:19 PM

by oradour

mclakic....who designated it Hungarian ?......
Prost ! Steve.

Hello Steve, I do not know why is it called Hungarian, but it is often practice in literature. As I said, Berdorf where the helmets was produced by Krupp-Berdorf, is in Austria so how could it be Hungarian. Hungarian units - Honved, had the same equipment like the rest of KuK army.

I have 2 classic Berdorfs and 5 M17 of that producer
Marko

**oradour** · 10-24-2010, 12:01 PM

by mclakic

Hello Steve, I do not know why is it called Hungarian, but it is often practice in literature.

I'll leave this open to debate.........
Prost ! Steve.

**AZPhil** · 10-25-2010, 05:12 AM

Thanks Steve.

**Reibert** · 12-15-2010, 08:30 PM

Here you can see a "Berndorfer" at the frontline:

**helmet2id** · 12-15-2010, 09:54 PM

Thanks for posting the picture. I have never seen a period photo of this style helmet in use. Cheers, Jim G.

**cricketchris1944** · 12-27-2010, 06:36 AM

How much do they go for?

**Markoni Serbia** · 01-07-2012, 07:31 PM

Nice one!! Realy awesome!

Here is mine Austrian M16 Bendorfer stile

**mcmike** · 09-30-2014, 11:53 PM

My friend thought he was buying a German M18 and this arrived. Looks like the one posted above, but a person on WAF identified it as a Hungarian M17. It does not look like the Hungarian M17 pictures I have seen. Note the liner rivets are in back of lugs, not in front. It looks to have been recently repainted. What do you think?