Allgemeine SS Ärmelband

**Bucklemann** · 07-09-2017, 08:55 PM

Can someone explain me, why SS-mann had SS Ärmelband for führer? :-)
Or it isn't führer Ärmelband? And if not, what does this Ärmelband mean?

Thank you!

**Espenlaub Militaria** · 07-09-2017 08:55 PM

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**Gimmie** · 07-09-2017, 09:04 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought it was normal for any personell of the Algemeine SS to have a cufftitle to signify what standarte you belonged to?

Regards,
Bas

**DrCMH** · 07-10-2017, 02:49 AM

by Bucklemann

Can someone explain me, why SS-mann had SS Ärmelband for führer? :-)
Or it isn't führer Ärmelband? And if not, what does this Ärmelband mean?

Thank you!

See this thread here:
Discontunation of Coloured borders on Titles

**DrCMH** · 07-10-2017, 02:53 AM

And, especially, this one...

Question Allgemeine SS cuff title 5

Lesen Sie das und alles klar.

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 07-10-2017, 03:43 AM

or this one, which I paid a ton of dough for....in fact.

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 07-10-2017, 03:45 AM

In other words, in the late spring of 1937, the cuff titles with the colored borders were phased out, in stages....as the RZM article above indicates.

I hate to be a pill, but the stripes might also be red, but a Sturmband is a Sturmband, and a Standarte is not a Sturmbann is not a Sturm, as it were.

Much of what is in secondary works about Allgemeine SS insignia is either incomplete or wrong.

**Wilhelm Saris** · 07-10-2017, 01:09 PM

The price-list included with the Mitteilungsblatt der RZM from December 15, 1934 mentions number 8 with a dark-blue piping,
the number being in silver-grey/aluminum.
The price-list from mid-1936 does mention the same as mentioned above, but also cuffbands with the number 1 through 9 (arabisch)
with aluminum pipings and aluminum embroidery.

The same list mentions for Sturm 5 through 8 darker-blue pipings; Sturm 1 through 9 yellow. So, there are some possibilities for the
number and piping for the shown photograph. It is practically impossible the piping is darker-blue with the shown photo with post 1,
but aluminum or yellow is possible.

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 07-10-2017, 06:46 PM

by Bucklemann

Can someone explain me, why SS-mann had SS Ärmelband for führer? :-)
Or it isn't führer Ärmelband? And if not, what does this Ärmelband mean?

Thank you!

The person you show is no "Fuehrer." He is an enlisted person, obviously.
See the RZM document I appended as to the June 1937 reform of Allgemeine SS insignia.

**Friedrich-Berthold** · 07-10-2017, 06:57 PM

Some time ago, Mr. d'Alquen appended excerpts of the June 1937 reform of Allgem. SS insignia to which my enclosure refers.
I have parts of it, which I shall enclose, in turn, .....