Original German WWII Heer 26th Artillery Regiment Ordnance Technician NCO M35 Waffenrock Dress Tunic – With Long Service Award and SA Sports Badge Original Items

Original Item: Only One Available. This is a beautiful Heer Artillery Unteroffiziere mit Portepee (Senior NCO) M35 Waffenrock Dress Tunic. The base material of the uniform is made of a fine feldgrau colored wool. The wool shows no signs of any physical damage by misuse but does display some mothing. The collar is wrapped in a dark-green wool, decorated a strip of 9mm flat silver-grey woven rayon braid (Unteroffoziers-Tressen), sewn around the collar border. The base material of the two dress litzen on each side of the collar opening is Hochrot (Deep Red) wool, the Waffenfarbe (Corps Color) during WWII for Artillery, as well as General Level Officers. The collar, front closure, and other areas of the tunic bear piping of the same color. The two litzen themselves are woven from a fine silver flatware thread. The collar and its insignia, are without any noticeable damage or mothing.

The “sew-in” style NCO shoulder boards of this Waffenrock have a dark green base wool, with the correct NCO Tresse sewn around the entire edge, and are piped in red. They have the metal numerals 26, which we believe are for the 26th Artillery Regiment. One rank pip is present on the shoulder boards, indicating the rank of Feldwebel, an NCO rank equivalent to a U.S. Army Technical Sergeant. The front breast eagle is an earlier tan colored Pattern executed in silver wire. The eagle is without damage and is very neatly hand stitched to the chest in a fashion typical of wartime German tailor work.

Eight silvered buttons adorn the front of the tunic and all appear to be originally attached. The lower French style cuffs of the sleeves have a dark-green based wool, and are adorned with red piping and NCO Tress flat silver borders. The sleeve litzen are the correct silver on deep red for artillery.

The lower right sleeve features the Feuerwerker (Ordnance Technician) sleeve patch. Feuerwerkers are specialists responsible for the maintenance of ammunition. In the modern German Bundeswehr, Feuerwerker is the collective designation to non-commissioned officers (OR5 to OR9) and officers of the military functional service with several years of special training pertaining to construction, maintenance, and destruction of ammunition.

The front left of the uniform has a 4th Class Wehrmacht Long Service Award (4 years) on the top breast area, while there is an SA Sports badge attached down towards the waist.

This lovely Artillery Ordnance Technician NCO Waffenrock comes ready to display!

Approx. Measurements:
Collar to shoulder: 10”
Shoulder to sleeve: 26.5”
Shoulder to shoulder: 17.5”
Chest width: 20”
Waist width: 17”
Hip width: 19.5”
Front length: 28″

The M35 Waffenrock dress tunic was introduced for wear by all ranks on June 29TH 1935 as the walking out, parade and ceremonial dress with the piped, stone grey long pants. The design of the M35 dress tunic was based on the Imperial German army’s service tunic but was a different color and generally of much higher quality. Originally all personnel were issued two M35 dress tunics but manufacture was discontinued in late 1939 or early 1940 and was to be reinstated at the successful conclusion of the war. Regulations of March 21ST 1940 stated that the M35 dress tunics that were no longer suitable for dress wear were to be modified and reissued to personnel of the replacement and reserve units for every day wear. Officers and certain senior NCO ranks were responsible for purchasing their own uniforms and as a result were allotted a clothing allowance through the army’s Kleiderkasse, (Clothing Account), system. The Officers and certain senior NCO’s could choose to purchase their uniforms from the armed forces clothing depots or to privately purchase garments of higher quality. Although enlisted personnel were issued their uniforms from government supplies they were also permitted to purchase privately tailored uniforms although the price may have been restrictive.