Luftwaffe Luftwaffe Administrative Officials

[gary9]

Silver/green piped

[gary9]

Leutnant Silver/green piped

Edited December 3, 2007 by gary9

[gary9]

Leutnant low/medium career

[gary9]

Hauptmann medium career

[gary9]

Major Medium Grade Career

[gary9]

Hauptmann High Grade Career

Edited December 3, 2007 by gary9

[gary9]

Major High Grade

[gary9]

Pair of shoulder boards with pink nebenfarbe

[Gary B]

Dear Gary,

Nice to see you "over here". Nice Admin tabs.

Gary B

[gary9]

Shoulder boards with blue/grey nebenfarbe

[gary9]

Boards with light blue nebenfarbe

Edited December 3, 2007 by gary9

[gary9]

Gary B thank you

boards with Toxic green nebenfarbe

[gary9]

Boards with light brown Nebenfarbe

[Paul R]

Thank you for sharing your pieces with us, Gary. You have some rare boards!!

Are the pink piped officers rose pink or carmine!! Very rare stuff! I love the blue!

[gary9]

A couple of new sets boards in for me first is a very rare pre war dark brown nebenfarbe for Pioneer, sorry the pictures are not very good, will try again with some better lighting tomorrow

Edited April 4, 2008 by gary9

[gary9]

Next pair are very dark blue grey

[Gary B]

Dear Gary,

A nice collection of rarely seen colors!

Gary B

[Paul R]

Thanks for sharing them!! I think that the dark brown nebenfarbe was also used by Air Safety Officials.

[nesredep]

Hello!

Thanks for share this rear item.

All the best

Nesredep

[Laurence Strong]

Red nebenfarbe:

General Administrative Service (Allgemeiner Verwaltungsdienst);

Construction Administrative Service (bauverwaltungdienst or Bautechnischer Verwaltungsdienst);

Agricultural Service (Landwirtschaftdienst);

Surveying Service (Vermessungsdienst)--renamed Surveying-technical Administration Service;

technical Machine Service (Maschinetechnischer Dienst)

technical Electric Service (Elektrotechnischer Dienst)

The rank of Oberfeldwebel with a low/medium career, 2 November 1940 pattern shoulder board, missing a couple of pips.

Assistant of all branches, Techn. Assistent;

Wetterdienstassistent;

Flugscherungsassitent;

Amtmeister, Werkmeister, Prufmeister, Maschinenmeister 1, Oberlotsenmeister:

Beamte on Probation for the medium career.

[Laurence Strong]

Leutnant:

They could hold a number of different positions depending on the level of the career. An officer would only start in the medium career level.

Officials of the Medium or elevated careers who were on temporary service until their final appointment as lifetime officials were identified by the prefix "a.p." or "ap", meaning "extraordinary" (ausserplanmassig)

Medium career:

Sekretar of all branches:

Techn. Sekretar, Wetterdienstsekretar,Justizsekretar, Ministerialkanzleivorstecher,Oberwerkmeister:

Oberprufmeister;

Maschinenmeister 1;

Betriebsleiter: 1;

Flugsherungsbetriebsleiter

[Laurence Strong]

Oberleutnant:

Medium career:

Obersekretar of all brances including:

Lithograph, Kartograph;

Hauptwerkmeister;

and Waffenmeister

Elevated career:

Inspektor of all branches including:

Ministerialregistrator;

Volksschullehrer am grossen Militarwaisenhaus in Potsdam.

High career

Oberapotheker 4

[Laurence Strong]

Hauptmann

Elevated career:

Oberinspector of all branches including;

Rektor and Konrektor am grossen Militarwaisenhaus in Potsdam.

High career:

Stabsapotheker 4;

Wetterdienstassessor;

Assessor on probation (im Probdienst)

[Laurence Strong]

Major:

Amtmann of all branches including:

Techn Oberamtmann;

Amtsrat aller fachrichtungen;

Misiterialkanzleivorteher 3

High career

Reigerungsrat;

Reigerungsmedizinalrat;

Obrestapotheker;

Archiver

[Laurence Strong]

Blue-grey nebenfarbe:

Reich Weather Service (Reichswetterdeinst) - meteorologist's aspirants and soldiers of the branch, which were termed "weather service soldiers" (Wetterdienstsoldaten)

A pair of unissued SB's for the Luftwaffe weather dept