While reading the biography of Generalmajor Kurt Andersen I stumbled upon a very well known name, but the man himself is absolutely unknown to me. I mean the commander of the "Abteilung von Proeck" in which Andersen met the trenches for the first time on 01.03.1915. Does anybody know anything about any von Proeck who commanded a batallion in1915?
Yes, there was one more state organisation that used the SS-pattern shoulderboards - the system of National Political Institutes of Education (Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten, NPEA or Nationalpolitische Lehranstalten, Napola). The officer ranked members of these Instituts wore silver cords on a black backing, just like the SS-Führer.
This is a shoulderboard for a Zollanwaerter (Landzoll). If the dark green stripes were thinner than the silver ones, this would be a Finanzanwaerter (Landzoll). However, as far as I can see they are of equal width. But it is definitely Landzoll.
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