Which shoulder strap buttons were used by Streifendienst?

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Hello mates,

I was just wondering which shoulder strap buttons were used by Streifendienst. When a Streifendienst Gefolgschaft was part of a Bann the number 1 was used I guess? Or were in each Gefolgschaft members of Streifendienst?

Thank you very much and with the best wishes,
Sven.
 
The Saris reference states on page 387 that a button with a number should be worn. He also shows an Ausweis from Bann 91 for a Striefendienst member that states he was a member of Gefolgschaft 36 on page 386. There is no footnote on either page that refers to a regulation but the text indicates that a Gefolgschaft numbered button would have been worn IMO.
 
Thanks a lot for your post. The membership card is an early one before special Streifendienst boards were introduced (1941?). I guess that Streifendienst members came from all Gefolgschaften in that time, but later there were special Streifendienst Gefolgschaften. Would be interesting so see such a flag and if such Gefolgschaften were consecutively numbered.
 
The shoulderstrap buttons used by the SRD were the standard type as Darin says. The number on the button denoted the number of the SRD Gefolgschaft.

The SRD was a separate organisation within the HJ and consisted of boys between the ages of 14 and 18 . They were organised into SRD Gefolgschaften and the RJF ordered that each Bann should have one of these with a minimum strength of 150 boys). It is clear from period documents that some Banne experienced difficulties in meeting this requirement. A Gefolgschaft could be split into SRD-Scharen and SRD-Kameradschaften if the layout of the respective Bann required it (a rural Bann for example) but the minimum permissible strength of an SRD Kameradschaft was 12. If a location could not achieve this number of SRD for a Kameradschaft it was not allowed to form one.

The SRD had their own flags. These were standard HJ Gefolgschaft flags but with a black corner panel (Spiegel) and with the Gefolgschaft/Bann numbers stitched in white. As far as I am aware there are no surviving examples of these flags.

Source: 'Dienstanweisung für den Streifendienst'
 
Thank you very much, Garry! In this case, a Streifendienst Gefolgschaft may have a "1" at the buttons for first SRD Gefolgschaft in Bann?
 
Yes. After standardisation in 1938 all SRD members who wore this type of button would have worn buttons with a '1' regardless of which Bann they were from. If a Bann was able to, or rather had a requirement to, raise a second SRD Gefolgschaft at some point then of course they would wear buttons with a '2'.

It is safe to say that if someone were to put an SRD display together they should definitely use shoulder buttons with a '1'.

The temporary SRD Ausweis which Saris shows is not an indicator that there was an SRD Gefolgschaft 36 within Bann 91. It merely shows that a boy from Gefolgschaft 36 of Bann 91 was a member of the SRD within his Bann. He would have worn '36' buttons yes but this wasn't because he was an SRD member. Everything points to the 1938 reorganisation of the SRD as being the time when the uniform was standardised (including the shoulder strap buttons), the flags were introduced etc etc. Prior to this the SRD was loosely organised and prior to 1936 and the first youth law it was quite ad-hoc in nature.
 
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