German Army Obergefreiter Uniform Rank Chevron

The insignia consists of two chevrons machine woven braid with a diamond pattern, tress chevrons in subdued and attached with matte grey rayon threads, machine stitched on a field-grey wool base, which is also chevron. Worn on the lower sleeve and is pattern rank chevron for Obergefreiter’s with less than six years service.

The German Army (German: Heer, German; lit. ’army’) was the land forces component of the Wehrmacht, the regular armed forces of Nazi Germany, from 1935 until it effectively ceased to exist in 1945 and then was formally dissolved in August 1946. During World War II, a total of about 13.6 million volunteers and conscripts served in the German Army.