GERMAN WAFFEN-SS SCHARFUHRER NCO JAGER SHOULDER BOARDS SUBDUED TRESSE

Waffen-SS Scharfuhrer NCO shoulder boards made from black wool with subdued silver tresse and light green piping for Jagers. 

SS-Scharführer was the equivalent rank to the Heer's rank of Unterfeldwebel - the intermediate rank between Unteroffizier and Feldwebel.

Has button hole for uniform attachment and black wool strap

The rank tresse is the subdued version and not the early shiny silver ones. 

The SS used black wool shoulder boards throughout the war changing only the rank tresse.  Rank tresse was sewn onto the edges of the shoulder boards.  The early war tresse was originally shiny silver aluminum but during the war (sometime in 1940) the tresse was changed to a grey or tan colour with a slight green shade. Probably due to the ease of seeing this bright silver tresse the Germans quickly introduced the subdued tresse instead.   

After 1940 both silver and the subdued tresse was worn on the shoulder boards.

Check out our other Waffen SS Waffenfarbe of different ranks in all services with different piping colours in-stock.

Prior to WW2 the German term Jäger came to represent light infantrymen whose civilian occupations (mostly hunters and foresters) made them well-suited to patrolling and skirmishing.

Instead of part of a large-scale military unit they were used on a more individual and independent basis.  Due to this Jäger was used to describe skirmishers, scouts, sharpshooters and runners.

Jäger is usually translated into English as:

• "rifleman" (in an infantry role) or "Rifles" (in regimental names); and
• "ranger"

In WW2 the new Wehrmacht revived the name.  Raised as "light infantry divisions" (leichte Infanterie-Divisionen) operating in rough terrain.  Their infantry regiments were called Jäger-Regimenter, and in 1942 the light infantry divisions were renamed Jäger divisions.