Original German WWII Army Heer Infantry Officers Schirmmütze Visor Crush Cap Original Items

Original Item: Only One Available. This is a very good condition German WWII Infantry Officer’s Schirmmütze Visor Cap, with a lovely “Crushed” shape. This “saddle-form” shape is highly desirable, and is only achieved on caps with a lot of wear and service.

The cap shows high quality fabrication, made with typical Heer army feldgrau (Field Gray) green / gray wool with a forest green band and a traditional high front, with matching white piping along the top edge and flanking either side of the band, indicating the branch to be Infantry.

It is decorated with a well detailed silvered aluminum eagle insignia on the peak and and an open silver bullion embroidered wreath surrounding a tri-color cockade on the band. It has the correct Silver bullion cord “chinstrap”, attached to silvered buttons, indicating that this cap is for an Officer. The visor / peak on this cap is black-finished “vulcanfibre”, the standard material for NCOs and Officers alike. The underside is a nice gray color, which matches the leather sweatband. The visor is in good condition, though some of the left end has pulled out and broken off.

The cap is lined with cream satin fabric and still has the original celluloid diamond. The diamond is still marked with silver paint, though it does not give a maker name, just details about the cap:

Stirndruckfrei
Deutsches Reichspatent

“Stirndruckfrei” loosely translates to “Forehead Pressure Free”, so it would assume to be a special design that was more comfortable to wear, protected by a German Patent. The sweatband is leather, with vents in the front, probably part of the patented design. Size is approximately 56-57cm (7 -7 1/8).

This is a very nice, high quality German Heer Infantry Officer peak visor cap, offered for sale in very good condition with a beautiful saddle-form shape. Ready to display!

The German Schirmmütze Visor Cap:
The visor cap (Schirmmütze) was an important part of the headgear worn by German uniformed military, civil, paramilitary and political organizations during the Third Reich. This was the standard cloth headgear worn as a part of the service uniform. Visor caps were worn outdoors as well as indoors, and were often required to be worn by all personnel on duty. Visor caps were made in versions specific to each organization and were often further differentiated through the use of insignia, colored piping, or style of chin cord, to indicate rank, role or branch. The insignia used on these caps ranged from simple stamped metal emblems, to elaborate hand embroidery. Visor caps were issued to enlisted soldiers and NCOs in the military and in some other organizations. Officers had to purchase their own hats, and lower ranks could choose to purchase caps that were of a higher quality than the rather basic, issue examples. The private purchase caps were generally made in very high quality, with fine materials. A wide variety of fabrics were used, from Trikot and doeskin, to heavy wool, or even lightweight white fabric for summer wear. In the military, issue of these caps was generally suspended shortly after the outbreak of the war, but they continued to be worn by some troops until the end of the war.