WWII EARLY NAZI GERMAN FIRE POLICE VISOR HAT WW2

Nice quality, Feuerschutzpolizei NCO’s visor cap features a gray doeskin wool body and Feuerschutzpolizei carmine wool truppenfarbe, (Branch of service color), to the crown edge and both the top edge of the centerband. The internal wire stiffener is still in place giving the cap a nice high peak to the front center of the crown. The front center of the cap has a three piece national tri-color cockade consisting of a black, fluted, alloy base, a silver washed alloy roundel and an inset red felt central dot. The eagle is stamped alloy, whose outstretched wings have a span of 37mm, and which clutches a wreathed, mobile swastika in its talons. The swastika is highlighted by its recesses having been painted black. The cap has a black lacquered vulcanfibre visor with a raised lip to the forward edge. The interior crown of the cap is lined in orangish/tan oilcloth. The interior of the cap also has a wide tan leather sweatband fully intact. The cap is in overall very good condition with minimal age and usage toning. Cap is about a size 57. Nice clean, untouched example. On June 17TH 1936, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler was appointed to the newly created position of Chef der Deutschen Polizei im Reichsministerium des Innern, (Chief of the German Police in the National Ministry of the Interior), effectively giving him full control of all police agencies within Germany including the Feuerschutzpolizei, (Fire Protection Police). As a result of this appointment and the restructuring of all the separate German state police into a single national police force new regulations were instituted to bring about uniformity in dress for all police through-out the country.