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Ranks and insignia of the Reichsbahn

Ranks and insignia of the Reichsbahn

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Ranks and insignia of the Reichsbahn show the grades, titles, and rank insignia of the Deutsche Reichsbahn during the period 1935–1945.

Pay grades, titles, and army equivalent

More information Paygrade in the Reichsbahn, Equivalent paygrade in the Reichsbesoldungs- Ordnung ...

Uniform regulations of 1935

Rank insignia for paygrades 1–11.[5]
Uniform details for paygrades 1-17a. Chin straps from top to bottom: Higher and upper career groups, middle career group, lower career group.[5]

Uniform regulations of 1941

Collar patch for railway officials of the middle career group, 1941.[6]
Rank insignia for a railway official in paygrade 9a/9, serving in Wehrmachts-
Verkersdirektion Brüssel (occupied Belgium.[6] The yellow armlet denotes him as a combatant according to the law of war.

The first uniform regulations of 1941 exchanged the pips on the epaulets for rosettes. They also introduced collar patches denoting career groups.[6]

References

  1. [1]
    Henneking, Gunther (1996). Deutsche Eisenbahn- Uniformen seit 1860. Transpress.
  2. [2]
    Schöttge, Hartmut (2008). Eisenbahnuniformen der Deutschen Reichsbahn 1935 bis 1940. Delitzsch.
  3. [3]
    "Bundesbesoldungsgesetz (BBesG). Vom 27. Juli 1957." Anlage IV. Bundesgesetzblatt. Teil I. 39(1957), p. 1022.
  4. [4]
    "Die Berufsausbildung der Eisenbahner." ITF 7(1929)14: 110-112.
  5. [5]
    Deutsche Reichsbahn. Dienstkleidungsordnung (DKO). Gültig vom 1.Januar 1939 an. Münster: C.F. Fahle, 1938.
  6. [6]
    Schöttge, Hartmut (2008). Eisenbahnuniformen der Deutschen Reichsbahn 1941 bis 1943. Delitzsch.
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