WWII German Feldherrnhalle sturmabteilung kragenspiegel aged collar tabs extremely rare. I was only able to get a few of these.
The SA-Standarte Feldherrnhalle was formed in 1935 and renamed Feldherrnhalle in 1936. It was the elite unit of the SA and guarded important SA, state and party offices. Its headquarters were in Berlin and battalions of the unit were stationed in Berlin, Hannover, Hattingen, Krefeld, Munich, Ruhr, Stetten and Stuttgart.
It was one of the units that entered Austria in March 1938 and it was placed under the control of the Wehrmacht in September 1938.
In February 1939 most of it was transferred to the Luftwaffe (where it was incorporated into the fallschirmjäger-units) and another part of it was made a part of Infantry-Regiment 271 of 93. Infantry-Division but it continued to exist as an SA unit during the war on a smaller scale
Commanders
SA-Brigadeführer Reimann
Hermann Göring
Order of battle
I Wachsturmbann Stabschef – Güttergötz
II Wachsturmbann – München
III Wachsturmbann – Hattinger / Ruhr
IV Wachsturmbann – Fichtenheim & Krefeld
V Wachsturmbann – Stettin
VI Wachsturmbann – Bad Cannstatt bei Stuttgart
VII Wachsturmbann – Wien (from 1938)
VIII Wachsturmbann – Lindau (from July 1941)
IX Wachsturmbann – Konitz (Pommern)
X Wachsturmbann – Warsaw
According to an order issued in June 1937 former members of this unit could get permission to wear a special insignia, an oval patch with the Feldherrnhalle emblem on the left forearm of the SA uniform.
The Feldherrnhalle was the scene of a confrontation on Friday morning, 9 November 1923, between the Bavarian State Police and the followers of Adolf Hitler in which the Nazi party attempted to storm the Bavarian Defense Ministry. This was the culmination of the Nazis’ failed coup attempt to take over the Bavarian State, commonly referred to as the Beer Hall Putsch. In the ensuing gun battle, four policemen and fourteen marchers were killed, plus two more NSDAP members elsewhere in Munich for a total of sixteen. Many more were wounded, including Hermann Goring. As a result of the failure of the so-called Beer Hall Putsch, Hitler was arrested and sentenced to a prison term.
Nazi memorial, After the Nazis took power in 1933, Hitler turned the Feldherrnhalle into a memorial to the Nazis killed during the failed putsch. A memorial to the fallen SA men was put up on its east side, opposite the location of the shootings. This monument, called the Mahnmal der Bewegung, was created to a design by Paul Ludwig Troost. It was a rectangular structure listing the names of the martyrs. This was under perpetual ceremonial guard by the SS. The square in front of the Feldherrnhalle (the Odeonsplatz) was used for SS parades and commemorative rallies. During some of these events the sixteen dead were each commemorated by a temporary pillar placed in the Feldherrnhalle topped by a flame. New SS recruits took their oath of loyalty to Hitler in front of the memorial. Passers-by were expected to hail the site with the Nazi salute.