GERMAN WAFFEN-SS SCHARFUHRER NCO GRENADIERS SHOULDER BOARDS SUBDUED TRESSE

Waffen-SS Scharfuhrer Grenadier NCO shoulder boards made from black wool with subdued silver tresse and meadow green piping.

SS-Scharführer was the equivalent rank to the Heer's rank of Unterfeldwebel - the intermediate rank between Unteroffizier and Feldwebel.

Has button hole for uniform attachment and black wool strap

The rank tresse is the subdued version and not the early shiny silver ones. 

The SS used black wool shoulder boards throughout the war changing only the rank tresse.  Rank tresse was sewn onto the edges of the shoulder boards.  The early war tresse was originally shiny silver aluminum but during the war (sometime in 1940) the tresse was changed to a grey or tan colour with a slight green shade. Probably due to the ease of seeing this bright silver tresse the Germans quickly introduced the subdued tresse instead.   

After 1940 both silver and the subdued tresse was worn on the shoulder boards.

Check out our other Waffen SS Shoulder boards of different ranks in all services with different piping Waffenfarbe colours in stock. 

Check out our other Waffen SS Waffenfarbe of different ranks in all services with different piping colours in-stock.

“Grenadier” is the German term for the military doctrine of mechanized infantry units in armoured forces.  Providing support for troops in armoured vehicles and carriers with squads of 6 to 8 soldiers. 

This term was started in Nazi Germany in WW2.   Also called Panzergrenadier (PzG).