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Gorget Identification Guide

This is an identification guide for the different Gorgets worn during the 3rd Reich period. To the best of our knowledge, all the examples shown are original pre-1945 manufacture. If anyone has questions or suggestions, please contact [email protected].

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NSDAP Organization Gorgets






NSDAP Standard Bearer Gorget
Introduced 1939



NSDAP Streifendienst (Service) Gorget



SA Standard Bearer Gorget
Introduced 1929, first Gorget with eagle and swastika



SA Standarte Feldherrnhalle Gorget
Introduced 1935



SA Feldj�gerkorps Gorget - 1933-34,
Motorisierte Gendarmerie Gorget - 1935-38



NSKK Standard Bearer Gorget
Introduced 1935



NSKK Streifendienst (Service) Gorget



NSKK Verkehrs Erziehungsdienst (Traffic Control Service) Gorget
Introduced 1937



SS Standard Bearer Gorget
Introduced 1938



SS Streifendienst (Service) Gorget
Introduced 1935



SS Funkschutz (Wireless Police) Gorget



Hitler Youth Standard Bearer Gorget
Introduced 1938



RAD Standard Bearer Gorget



RAD Streifendienst (Service) Gorget



NSFK Standard Bearer Gorget
Introduced 1937


Military & Police Gorgets






Heer (Army) Standard Bearer Gorget
Introduced 1936



Heer (Army) Kommandantur (High Command) Gorget
Introduced 1937



Heer (Army) Feldgendarmerie Gorget
Introduced 1938, used by the Army and Waffen-SS



Feldj�ger Gorget



Bahnhofswache (Army Railway Patrol) Gorget



Zugwachtabteilung (Army Train Protection) Gorget



Marine-K�sten-Polizei (Costal Patrol) Gorget
pinback - no chain



Luftwaffe Standard Bearer Gorget
Introduced 1936



Reichs-Luft-Aufsicht (Air Traffic Control) Gorget



Luftwaffe Feldgendarmerie Gorget
Introduced 1938



Goering Division Standard Bearer Gorget
Introduced 1936



Polizei Standard Bearer Gorget
Introduced 1938


State Organization Gorgets






Deutsches Rotes Kreuz (DRK) Standard Bearer Gorget



Reichsluftschutzbund (RLB) Standard Bearer Gorget
Introduced 1936



Reichsluftschutzbund (RLB) Standard Bearer Gorget
Introduced 1937



Werkschutz Gorget
pinback - no chain



Technische Nothilfe (TeNo) Standard Bearer Gorget



Technische Nothilfe (TeNo) Technisches Aufseher (Technical Supervisor) Gorget



Organization Todt Streifendienst (Service) Gorget



BahnSchutz (Railraod Protection) Standard Bearer Gorget




Veteran Organization Gorgets






Stahlhelm Standard Bearer Gorget (early type)



Stahlhelm Standard Bearer Gorget



Nationalsozialistische Kriegsopferversorgung (NSKOV) Standard Bearer Gorget
Introduced 1937



Nationalsozialistischer Reichskriegerbund (NSRKB) Standard Bearer Gorget
Introduced 1937



Nationalsozialistischer Reichskriegerbund (NSRKB) Standard Bearer Gorget
Introduced 1938