Heer Sonderführer Officer's Visor Cap, Manufactured by Erel

The Army Mobilization Order of March 12’th 1937 established a group of Sonderführer (Specialist Leaders) formed from personnel with specialized knowledge and/or skills to perform specific tasks that regular military personnel were unable to fulfill. Originally the Sonderführers wore the standard army uniform and headgear befitting their position/rank with the appropriate identifying, waffenfarbe, (Branch of Service Color), which was generally displayed as piping on the visor cap. Regulations of July 1941 altered the waffenfarbe color of all Sonderführers to blue/grey and included altering the standard blue/green visor cap centerband color.

Mid-war officer’s visor cap, field-grey tricot cloth construction body and crown, a grey coarse wool centerband and grey, trimmed wool branch color piping to the top crown edge and both the top and bottom edges of the centerband. Pinned in place to the front is a silver painted Zinc national eagle and wreath / cockade. The cockade is Erel’s special vantilated one. The cap has a bright, twisted, silver/aluminum chin cord secured in place by two, silver washed sheet metal buttons. The cap has a black lacquered vulcanfibre visor with a subtly raised lip to the forward edge. Inside is fully lined in golden yellow rayon. The interior crown lining has a clear celluloid sweat diamond which is all intact. The sweat diamond is marked “Erel Berlin Sonderklasse Extra”. The cap is large, size 58-59 and is in very good condition outside is in perfect “mint” condition inside shows a couple of minor wear / age spots.

Super nice Erel cap, which also is in a good size and almost mint!!