Lampasse
Lampasse(s) (Template:Lang-de) are in a large number of national armed forces trouser stripes. In German speaking countries as General Staff–qualified officers, their uniform featured these distinctive double-wide lampasses.[1] Because of the similar spelling, it should not be mixed up with the Lampas (Template:Lang-fr) which is of different meaning.
Germany
The lampasses of the General Staff–qualified officers up to colonel were in carmine. However general uniforms featured lampasses in corps colour (Template:Lang-de), e.g. Air Force in Skyblue.
For general officers of the German Bundeswehr the tradition to use lampasses was given up[2] in 1956. However, general officers of the National People's Army, Volkspolizei and Stasi, as well as flag officers of the Volksmarine wore double-wide lampasses on uniform trousers in the appropriate corps colour until1990.
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In the In Germany today the general officers of the Bundespolizei wear double-wide Lampasses in deep green.
Historical examples
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Red double-wide lampasses of the Wuerttemberg 3rd Kavalery-Regiment, 1825. -
Red double-wide lampasses of the Prussian General officers. -
Field Marshal Sir Henry Evelyn Wood VC, GCB, GCMG with gold-lampasses. -
Mounted officer with red lampasses. -
Friedrich Wilhelm III with red double-lampasses. -
Soviet marshals, Zhukov and Rokossovsky in 1945.
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Lampasses today
Lampasses are worn even today in a large number of national armed forces on Dress uniform, Full dress uniform, or duty uniform of general officers. The gold-coloured lampasses of the US-Cavalry is also well known.
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Sources / references
- ^ BROCKHAUS Encyclopaedia in 24 Volumes, volume 13: 3-7653-3673-4, 2001, P. 27. Template:De icon
- ^ Word and tradition in the German Army (de: Heer), by Transfeldt – v. Brand – Quenstedt, 6th increased edition, Hamburg 11 H.G. Schulz 1967, p. 55/§76, Lampasse