Helmets of the Bavarian police - first model

[Sleepwalker]

Hello,

I would like to introduce you to a selection of helmets used by the Bavarian police after 1945. First of all, the first helmet model with the first coat of arms.

Helmets of the first model are painted grey-green. They have one or two coats of arms. This coat of arms shows the blue and white background. This emblem was used until 1964.

In addition to the state police, there were also the mobile police and various city police forces.

Before newly produced helmets were used from 1951 onwards, shells from World War II production were also used. These were certainly used by the Bavarian border police, which was set up from 1948 onwards.
The Bavarian border, state and riot police never used the 1953 model.

Bavaria has purchased many helmets from different manufacturers. That's why you can find many different versions.




There are three helmet models in total, which I will show separately.



Here you can find pictures with these helmets

https://www.polizei.bayern.de/mam/bp...ichte_2023.pdf


To the second helmet model:

Helmets of the Bavarian police - second model


and to the third model:

Helmets of the Bavarian police - third model

[Sleepwalker]

Here is an M35 from World War II, which was used by the Bavarian police, probably initially by the border police.

The bell was repainted in grey-green and given a early simplified interior with red-brown colored leather. It also received a coat of arms of the first modell.

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Here we have a helmet produced from 1951.
Green-gray color and coat of arms of the first model.

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Next, a variant with two helmet crests of the first model.

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Unused original emblem of the first model