Mars 115 air rifle markings 3/113

[Nicmauser]

Hello, I am being offered a Mars 115 rifle with this number engraved on the stock, can you help me find out its school. Thank you

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[Garry]

Hi there,

With the Mars 115 being an air rifle and therefore for the Deutsches Jungvolk this unit could be either:

Jungbann 3/113 or Fähnlein 3/113. I have no records showing that there was ever a Jungbann 3/113 so this unit designation must be for Fähnlein 3/113. I don't yet have an exact location for that Fähnlein in my list but it will have covered a part of Freiburg (im Breisgau). I don't think this will be a school.

Another option could be that this was rifle number 3 within the stocks of Jungbann 113. I doubt that but I'll look into the regulations and see if I can find how these items were marked.

 

[Nicmauser]

Thank you for your help, this rifle was found in Alsace

 

[Garry]

No probs. I see from an older post of mine that the regulations do not specify a method of marking rifles. Yours however will mean "Fähnlein 3 of Jungbann 113".

 

[Nicmauser]

In France, I often see hj training weapons with markings like this on the stock. But nothing regulatory I think, often engraved at the bottom of the stock or on the metal ring for dismantling the breech.

 

[Garry]

Yes, there is a thread on the forum showing a number of these markings:

Unit designation on a HJ .22 rifle plate | Pistols and Rifles

The 111 and 412, would the proper term be Gefolgschaft 111 and Bann 412? Also I see the 111 is termed often with the HJ group from Berlin in The Handbook of the HJ, so would this be a group from Berlin sent to Aschersleben ?

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[Nicmauser]

Real works of art

 

[Nicmauser]

another model

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