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A White Service Uniform for SS Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff

Lot 4068
18.10.2023 13:00UTC +01:00
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€ 200 000
AuctioneerHermann Historica
Event locationGermany, Grasbrunn / München
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Lot 4068 | A White Service Uniform for SS Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff
Estimate value
€ 95 000
Tailored, white doeskin wool, four-button front, open-collar, French cuffs, scalloped and pleated breast pockets, scalloped flap hip pockets, silver pebbled buttons, two silver pebbled belt-ramp buttons at rear vent. Red wool armband with black ribbed rayon tape borders, hand-applied. Extremely rare ReichsführerSS/ Hauptamtschefs/ Amtschefs cuff title of silver-aluminum tresse band with black thread borders, machine-applied. Collar tabs of black velvet backing with silver-aluminum twist cord piping, silver-aluminum hand-embroidered cluster of three oakleaves and single rank pip, hand-applied. Single shoulder board of three interwoven twist silver-aluminum cords, middle cord twist in opposite direction from outer cords, on black wool backing, black cloth SS/RZM tag underneath, slip-on through shoulder bridle and retained with silver pebbled button attached to threaded screw post. Left shoulder with cloth bridle and screw post provision for addition of second shoulder board. Numerous loops on breast pocket for multiple awards, loops above pocket for two, long ribbon bars. Aiguillette of silver-aluminum interwoven braided cord with loop thread attachment for tunic button, two looped long cords, one tied at an end with thin braided interwoven thread to create loop for tunic button attachment. All cords attached to a rectangular silver-aluminum fabric tab with a machine-sewn button-hole opening for attachment to tunic button underneath right shoulder board, two silver metal, hanging needle tips. Lined in cream-color silk including sleeve linings, two inside breast pockets, opening into pocket for edged weapon suspension, hidden pockets in vent flaps. No tailor or name labels. Originally sold in 1974 with dated 30.4.1974 personal calling card signed by Karl Wolff confirming tunic belongs to him.

Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff (13 May 1900 – 17 July 1984) was a German SS functionary who served as Chief of Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and an SS liaison to Adolf Hitler during World War II. He ended the war as the Supreme SS and Police Leader in occupied Italy and helped arrange for the early surrender of Axis forces in that theatre, effectively ending the war there several days sooner than in the rest of Europe. He escaped prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials, apparently as a result of his participation in Operation Sunrise. In 1962, Wolff was prosecuted in West Germany for the deportation of Italian Jews, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for being an accessory to murder in 1964. He was released in 1971 due to his failing health and died 13 years later.
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A White Service Uniform for SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Wolff
Tailored, white doeskin wool, four-button front, open-collar, French cuffs, scalloped and pleated breast pockets, scalloped flap hip pockets, silver pebbled buttons, two silver pebbled belt-ramp buttons at rear vent. Red wool armband with black ribbed rayon tape borders, hand-applied. Extremely rare ReichsführerSS/ Hauptamtschefs/ Amtschefs cuff title of silver-aluminum tresse band with black thread borders, machine-applied. Collar tabs of black velvet backing with silver-aluminum twist cord piping, silver-aluminum hand-embroidered cluster of three oakleaves and single rank pip, hand-applied. Single shoulder board of three interwoven twist silver-aluminum cords, middle cord twist in opposite direction from outer cords, on black wool backing, black cloth SS/RZM tag underneath, slip-on through shoulder bridle and retained with silver pebbled button attached to threaded screw post. Left shoulder with cloth bridle and screw post provision for addition of second shoulder board. Numerous loops on breast pocket for multiple awards, loops above pocket for two, long ribbon bars. Aiguillette of silver-aluminum interwoven braided cord with loop thread attachment for tunic button, two looped long cords, one tied at an end with thin braided interwoven thread to create loop for tunic button attachment. All cords attached to a rectangular silver-aluminum fabric tab with a machine-sewn button-hole opening for attachment to tunic button underneath right shoulder board, two silver metal, hanging needle tips. Lined in cream-color silk including sleeve linings, two inside breast pockets, opening into pocket for edged weapon suspension, hidden pockets in vent flaps. No tailor or name labels. Originally sold in 1974 with dated 30.4.1974 personal calling card signed by Karl Wolff confirming tunic belongs to him.

Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff (13 May 1900 – 17 July 1984) was a German SS functionary who served as Chief of Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler and an SS liaison to Adolf Hitler during World War II. He ended the war as the Supreme SS and Police Leader in occupied Italy and helped arrange for the early surrender of Axis forces in that theatre, effectively ending the war there several days sooner than in the rest of Europe. He escaped prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials, apparently as a result of his participation in Operation Sunrise. In 1962, Wolff was prosecuted in West Germany for the deportation of Italian Jews, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison for being an accessory to murder in 1964. He was released in 1971 due to his failing health and died 13 years later.
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