Original German WWII Heer Army Jäger NCO Right Collar Tab and Obergefreiter Sleeve Chevrons - Uniform Cut Off

Original Items: Only One Set Available. This is a set of "Uniform Cut Off" insignia from the German WWII Heer Army, consisting of a right side NCO collar section with the litzen, or collar tab, and a set of left sleeve Obergefreiter Chevrons. Both of these look to have been cut off from an M36 tunic, made with the standard feldgrau (field gray) wool cloth.

The collar section looks to be from an early pattern M36 tunic, with the flaschengrün (dark bottle-green) "badge cloth" fabric on the top of the collar. It has the correct NCO diamond woven tresse piping around the edge, and the litzen is an early 1935 pattern type, with colored stripes. These are hellgrün (light green) piping around the edge, the Corps Color (Waffenfarbe) for Gebirgsjäger (mountain troops), Skijäger (ski troops), and Jäger (light infantry troops).

The Obergefreiter Dienstgradabzeichen (rank insignia) consists of two silver tresse chevrons on a dark bottle-green background, and is specific to the rank, equivalent to a U.S. Army Corporal.

A lovely set of uniform cut off insignia, ready to add to your collection!

German Jäger Units -
Jäger (hunter) is a German military term referring to specific light infantry units. In German-speaking states during the early modern era, the term Jäger came to denote light infantrymen whose civilian occupations (mostly hunters and foresters) made them well-suited to patrolling and skirmishing, on an individual and independent basis, rather than as part of a large-scale military unit or traditional line infantry. As a consequence, Jäger was used to describe skirmishers, scouts, sharpshooters and runners.

The German Empire had various different Jäger units, which were disbanded at the conclusion of WWI. The Reichswehr of Weimar Germany did keep their traditions somewhat intact, and during the NSDAP led rearmament preceding WWII, various different Jäger units were reformed, the most famous of which were the Heer Gebirgsjäger Mountain Troopers and Luftwaffe Fallschirmjäger paratroopers. Later in the war, Skijäger Ski Troopers and Jäger Infantry units were raised, as well as some smaller units with more specific purposes, such as "Tank Hunters".

Gebirgsjäger material is among the most popular of all German WWII items. They were the light infantry part of the alpine or mountain troops (Gebirgstruppe) of Germany and Austria. The word Jäger (meaning "hunter" or "huntsman") is a characteristic term used for light-infantry or light-infantryman in German-speaking military context.

The mountain infantry of Austria have their roots in the three Landesschützen regiments of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The mountain infantry of Germany carry on certain traditions of the Alpenkorps (Alpine corps) of World War I. Both countries' mountain infantry share the Edelweiß insignia. It was established in 1907 as a symbol of the Austro-Hungarian Landesschützen regiments by Emperor Franz Joseph I. These troops wore their edelweiss on the collar of their uniforms. When the Alpenkorps came to aid the Landesschützen in defending Austria-Hungary's southern frontier against the Italian attack in May 1915, the grateful Landesschützen honored the men of the Alpenkorps by awarding them their own insignia: the edelweiss. Together with the Fallschirmjäger (Paratroopers) they are perceived as the elite infantry units of the German Army.