BACKGROUND: On June 17TH 1936, Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler was appointed to the newly created position of Chef der Deutschen Polizei im Reichsministerium des Innern, (Chief of the German Police in the National Ministry of the Interior), effectively giving him full control of all police agencies within Germany. As a result of this appointment and the restructuring of all the separate German state police into a single national police force new regulations were instituted in July 1936 to bring about uniformity in dress for all police through-out the country. One of the new uniform regulations was the introduction of a standardized bayonet based on the earlier Prussian Landespolizei bayonet. The bayonet came in a un-slotted dress model and a "T" slotted service model. Besides the standard issue bayonet a shorter blade dress bayonet was also available as a private purchase item. As with the K98 bayonets the dress bayonets were accompanied by a bayonet frog to be worn on the reverse left side of the weight bearing waist belt. Generally the bayonet frogs were brown or black until regulations of 1936 introduced a white bayonet frog for wear by EM/NCO ranks serving with the LSSAH, Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler for parade dress. In 1937 the Ordnungspolizei (Order Police), the Schutzpolizei, (Protection Police), and Gemeindepolizei, (Local Municipal Police) also introduced the white bayonet frog for wear by NCO ranks with the parade dress. Of Note: Generally all bayonet frogs were produced in leather although the white parade dress frogs were manufactured in a rubberized web material and it appears there where two manufacturers of the white frogs the A. Fischer firm of Berlin and Bruno Leunert in Bretnig.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: White enameled leather construction bayonet frog. Nicely maker marked Bruno Leunert in Bretnig and dated for 1938. Shows the expected age but overall nice condition. Scarce SS/Polizei white parade dress frog.