Bavarian Steel Helmet

[SARGE]

Gents,

 

I just picked up a nice example of the postwar Bavarian barracked police steel helmet that I thought I would show.  

 

Shown as the Bavarian steel helmet worn after 1967 with this police star decal on the left side of the green painted helmet.  Earlier helmets worn prior to 1967 (from 27 October 1950) had a different shield without the police star.  The decal on my helmet is a large colored metallic star with the Bavarian shield in the center.  These postwar police helmets can be seen in Ludwig Baer, "The History of the German Steel Helmet 1916-1945", pp 274-308.  Similar steel helmets with state or city police decals were worn by barracked police forces such as BGS, Baden-Wurttemberg, Bremen, and Hamburg.  

 

Notice the liner and chinstrap and the maker marking in the metal shell.

 

 

[RRA227]

Nice helmet.  Rich A. in Pa.

[Proud Kraut]

Yes, a very nice helmet in nearly mint condition. Thanks for sharing!

[SARGE]

Thanks for the kudos guys.  And, I just found out that the "LS" logo stands for Linnemann & Schnetzer as the steel shell maker.  

 

 

[Didier]

That is a veeery nice Polizei helmet indeed! Mine hasn't got any decal, unfortunately.

 

[SARGE]

I subsequently found out that my helmet is the second type.  The paint is darker on my helmet and the decal is larger than on the earlier Bavarian Police helmets.