In the transitional years of 1933–1934, immediately following the Nazi seizure of power, the uniforms of the German Polizei remained largely those of the decentralized Weimar-era state and municipal forces rather than a single national pattern, with the various Landespolizei, Schutzpolizei, and Gendarmerie units continuing to wear predominantly dark-blue or blue-grey tunics, trousers, and greatcoats that had been standard since the early 1920s, often featuring high standing collars, external patch pockets, and traditional rank insignia on shoulder boards and collar patches that still reflected pre-1933 state designs; headgear typically consisted of the distinctive rigid police shako (Tschako) with a metal state-coat-of-arms badge or a peaked visor cap (Schirmmütze), while footwear was black leather boots or shoes and the belt was usually black or brown leather with a simple rectangular buckle. As Nazi control tightened—particularly after Hermann Göring’s decrees in Prussia prioritizing SA and SS members for police appointments and Kurt Daluege’s ideological indoctrination measures—Nazi political symbols began to appear on these otherwise traditional garments, including the early addition of a swastika armband or a small metal eagle-and-swastika badge on the left breast or cap, though the full standardization of the distinctive “Grüne Polizei” (green police) uniform with brown collars and cuffs, the wreathed Polizeiadler sleeve eagle, and branch-specific Truppenfarbe piping would not be introduced until the complete nationalization under Heinrich Himmler in June 1936. Officers of higher rank often retained more elaborate parade versions with silver or gold embroidery, while rank-and-file policemen wore simpler service dress suited to urban or rural duties; overall, the 1933–1934 period thus represented a hybrid phase in which the old blue state-police appearance coexisted with the gradual visual Nazification of the force, setting the stage for the fully militarized and centralized green Ordnungspolizei uniform that followed.
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WAFFEN-SS
SS-Obergruppenführer Alfred Wünnenberg (1891-1963) was born on 20 July 1891 in Saarburg, Alsace-Lorraine, in the German Empire, and entered military service on 25 February 1913 as a Fahnenjunker in the Infanterie-Regiment „Vogel von Falckenstein“ (7. Westfälisches) Nr. 56 of the Prussian Army; during the First World War he served as a Kompaniechef, was wounded on both the Western and Eastern fronts, trained as a pilot from June 1916, and flew as an Aufklärungsflieger with Feld-Flieger-Abteilung 47 from August 1917, earning the Eisernes Kreuz 2. Klasse on 10 February 1915 and 1. Klasse on 9 September 1915 along with other decorations including the Königlich Preussisches Flugzeugbeobachter-Abzeichen and the Ritter des Königlicher Preussischer Hausordens von Hohenzollern mit Schwertern. After the war he briefly served with Grenzschutz Ost and a Freikorps in Oberschlesien before joining the Preußische Schutzpolizei as a Polizei-Oberleutnant in September 1920, rising through various police commands and training roles in Essen, Potsdam-Eiche, Krefeld, Köln, Charlottenburg, Hindenburg, Beuthen, Gleiwitz, Saarbrücken, Bremen, and Mannheim, joining the NSDAP on 1 May 1933 (Mitgliedsnummer 2.222.600) and the SS (SS-Nr. 405.898), and by December 1938 serving on the staff of the Inspekteur der Ordnungspolizei in Stuttgart. On 2 October 1939 he became Kommandeur of Polizei-Schützen-Regiment 3 of the Polizei-Division (later SS-Polizei-Division) with the rank of SS-Standartenführer and Oberst der Schutzpolizei, participating in the Western campaign of 1940 and the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941; for his leadership in the Luga sector—particularly his personal bravery on 11 August 1941 in capturing the hills at Stojanowschtschina (taking seventeen enemy tanks and numerous heavy bunkers), his advance on 23 August to seize Ssyrez, the hills west of it, and the heights at Turowo that enabled the capture of Luga, and his regiment’s breakthrough of the outer defensive lines of Leningrad on 13 September by securing bridges and key positions while advancing toward Pushkin via the Ishora position—he was awarded the Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes on 15 November 1941 as SS-Standartenführer and Oberst der Schupo. He assumed command of the SS-Polizei-Division on 15 December 1941, and for his successful leadership of the division at the Volkhov, where he closed the ring around the Volkhov pocket by attacking through extremely swampy terrain to achieve surprise against an enemy expecting an advance along the road, he received the Eichenlaub zum Ritterkreuz (91st award) on 23 April 1942 as SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor der Polizei. Promoted further to SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant der Polizei in July 1942 and then to SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS und Polizei in July 1943, he briefly commanded the IV. SS-Panzer-Korps from 10 June 1943 until 31 August 1943, after which he succeeded Kurt Daluege as Chef des Hauptamtes der Ordnungspolizei, a post he held until the end of the war (and briefly as Chef der Deutschen Polizei in the final days); he fled via the Rattenlinie Nord to Flensburg, was interned as a POW in Dachau in 1946, released in 1947, and died on 30 December 1963 in Krefeld, West Germany.
Source :
https://alifrafikkhan.blogspot.com/2014/11/foto-tokoh-third-reich-dengan-seragam.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranks_and_insignia_of_the_Ordnungspolizei
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