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 Vern@GermanDaggers.com.

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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 Feldjägerkorps 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
Feldjäger Gorget	Bahnhofswache (Army Railway Patrol) Gorget	Zugwachtabteilung (Army Train Protection) Gorget
Marine-Küsten-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