GERMAN WWII KRIEGSMARINE HIGH RANKING ADMINISTRATION OFFICERS TUNIC, CAP AND PARADE BELT, IDENTIFIED.

A fabulous condition all blue large size naval officers tunic, silver lace rank to both sleeves, rank of Schiffbaudirektor (ship designer) with the naval administration insignia above, an eagle and swastika with three lozenge trade diamonds. All of the buttons are of the silver type and all have their frosted finish remaining. The eagle is a silver eagle on dark navy blue background. To the upper left breast is a short medal ribbon bar comprising of the War Service Cross 1st class with swords and another award with what appears to be the West Wall ribbon with swords. To the upper inner rear of the tunic is the tailor’s label of ‘Heinrich Schneller Berlin W.’ To the front breast of the tunic there are loops for one award below the medal ribbon bar. To the interior pocket the matching tailor’s canvas label with the name to the label of ‘Christopher Ashmoneit’ with the date ‘1939’. The tunic is in magnificent condition, not one spot of moth or damage or staining anywhere. The tunic is accompanied with a very large size naval officers style floppy cap, matching colour material to the tunic with silver wire eagle and matching administration officers silver wire central cockade, wool centre band, silver cap cord with silver anchored side buttons, soft crushable peak. To the interior the mid tan sweatband with wear use showing, all complete with the interior light cream satin lining, slight service wear and staining with its undamaged centre celluloid lozenge. One slight tear to the inner sweatband at the point where the front peak attaches to the main body of the cap. One further item is the administration officers full parade belt, much original frosting remaining to the buckle and complete with both keepers. Christopher Ashmoneit born March 17th 1901 in Brandenburg, died February 14th 1984 in Kiel was a German naval architect during and after WWII was one of the leading German submarine experts. In the mid 1920’s he joined the now known Reich Marine and served on the battleship Schleswig-Holstein and in 1935 he became a naval architect, three days after the establishment of the Kriegsmarine. In October 1938 he was transferred to the design office of the Naval Command in Berlin and was a consultant for the leading German submarine designer Friedrich Schurer, he worked on the construction of the U-Boat Class 11 and worked on many of the U-Boat designs right up until the end of WWII. In 1943 he succeeded Friedrich Schurer as the Ministerialrat and Head of Department for submarine development. Towards the end of the war he personally directed the Deep Diving Trial of the Type 21 U-Boat. After WWII he was heavily involved in submarine design, not only in Germany but across Europe. Much further reading on his history is available with a file of information we have with this uniform. More extensive, extra images can be seen on our new Premium website, type in regimentalsmilitaria.co.uk in to your web browser.

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