Original Items: Only One Set Available. This is a very nice German WWII Heer Army Infantry Leutnant Officer's M-36 Tunic in very good display condition, really looking the business with an attached Infantry Assault Badge and EKII 1939 Ribbon. As with most officer tunics, it was tailor made for the offer, and in this case there is still a fully intact embroidered rayon label on the interior just below the collar! It reads as follows:

Uniformen-Stübben
Das Haus der guten Herrenbekleidung

Berlin
Potsdamerstr. 59
22 36 85

To make this tunic even better, the left side inner pocket has a label with the maker information, which is also filled out with the owners name and date it was purchased:-

UNIFORMEN STÜBBEN
BERLIN, Potsdamerstr. 57-59
Herr.  Fuhrmann    07202
№  Goslig?  Dat.    5. 2. 42.

The last name is written in Kurrentschrift, an older form of Germanic script writing, which is why the "u" letter us written as "ŭ". In this script the lowercase "n" and "u" are identical, so the latter gets the arc shaped mark over it. This is not indicative of an umlaut or other diacritical marking. With this information here is definitely some good research potential for this tunic.

The tunic features four pleated pockets with scalloped flaps and pebbled magnetic buttons, which look to be made from stamped steel with pebbled zinc tops. The front closure features six of the same style buttons on the right breast flap meeting an equal number of reinforced buttonholes on the left flap. The buttons are finished in gray green paint, which is very well retained on most, and they have some markings on the reverse. They are sewn directly to the fabric, which does make them a bit more prone to tearing off, however these all look to be original. There are also two hook and loop collar securing fasteners, which are fully functional. The collar stiffener/protector is no longer present, but two of the three retaining clips are still installed.

The interior is lined with a lovely gray green colored rayon cotton blend, with sleeves lined with white sheer rayon. There is some light wear and staining to the interior, but no tears or major damage. There is an internal horizontal slash pocket on the inner left chest, with no other internal pockets. There is also a large eyelet that connects to the exterior under the left waist pocket for the dagger to hang through.

It is adorned with the usual rank and branch insignia used on German tunics. The attractive Army breast eagle is hand embroidered in aluminum bullion, and is very neatly hand stitched to the chest in a fashion typical of wartime German tailor work. The collar is wrapped in flaschengrün (dark bottle-green) wool, and has officer's field litzen collar patches on each side, which are woven from silver bullion thread with a dark bottle green background matching the collar. The collar is in very good shape, showing just a bit of wear around the edge, which is usually the first place on a uniform to show wear.

The colored stripes (mittelstreifen) on the litzen are Weiß (white) coiled bullion, the Waffenfarbe (Corps Color) during WWII for Infanterie (Infantry) and Motorisiert Infanterie (Motorized Infantry). The “sew-in” style company grade officers schulterklappen (shoulder boards) of this tunic are constructed with two rows of fine silver flatware "Russia Braid" double piping and have the correct white bases, which protrudes around the edges. There are no rank pips, indicating the rank of Leutnant, equivalent to a U.S. Army 2nd Lieutenant. The left chest pocket has two thread loops where a hollow back silver Infantry Assault badge is attached, and there is the ribbon for an Iron Cross 1939 EKII pinned to the second button hole from the top.

Overall condition is very good, showing light wear and staining consistent with light service during the war. We cannot see any major mothing or other issues with the uniform, just a few scattered small holes to the exterior. The shoulder boards also show some light wear, while the litzen look great.

A very nice named bespoke German Infantry Officer's Tunic, ready to research and display!

Approximate Measurements:-
Collar to shoulder: 9"
Shoulder to sleeve: 25”
Shoulder to shoulder: 14"
Chest width: 19”
Waist: 16"
Hip: 20"
Front length: 20.5"

Field Tunic (Feldbluse) Model 1936
Terms such as M40 and M43 were never designated by the Wehrmacht, but are names given to the different versions of the Model 1936 field tunic by modern collectors, to discern between variations, as the M36 was steadily simplified and tweaked due to production time problems and combat experience.

When the NSDAP came to power in early 1933 the Reichswehr, the armed forces of the Weimar Republic, were near the end of a two-year project to redesign the Army Feldbluse (field-blouse). Beginning in that year the new tunic was issued to the Reichsheer and then the rapidly growing Wehrmacht Heer, although minor design changes continued to be made until the appearance of the standardized Heeres Dienstanzug Modell 1936. The M36 tunic still retained the traditional Imperial and Reichswehr uniform color of grey-green "field gray" (feldgrau) wool, but incorporated four front patch pockets with scalloped flaps and pleats (on Reichswehr tunics the lower pockets were internal and angled). The front was closed with five buttons rather than the previous eight, and the collar and shoulder straps were of a dark bottle-green instead of the Reichswehr grey. Compared to the Weimar-era uniforms the skirt of the feldbluse was shorter and the tailoring was more form-fitting due to Germany's adoption of mechanized warfare: soldiers now spent much time in the confined space of a vehicle and a shorter jacket was less likely to pick up dirt from the seats. It also included an internal suspension system, whereby a soldier could hang an equipment belt on a series of hooks outside of the tunic. These hooks were connected to two straps inside the lining, which spread the weight of equipment without having to use external equipment suspenders. The M36 was produced and issued until the very end of the war, though successive patterns became predominant.