Original German Pre-WWII NS Deutscher Frontkämpferbund Stahlhelm Veteran's Association Membership Badge - NSDFBSt Japanese Uniforms which featured the Maynard tape

which featured the Maynard tape primer system

as well as to the locals

this is quite a high ranking

He wears a bummer hat or kepi and a standard nine-button frock coat of northern Federal or Union issue

It indicates he was combat wounded and could wear civilian clothes

Original German Pre-WWII NS Deutscher Frontkämpferbund Stahlhelm Veteran's Association Membership Badge - NSDFBSt Japanese Uniforms which featured the Maynard tapeOriginal Item: Only One Available. Der Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten ('The Steel Helmet, League of Front Line Soldiers'), often shortened to Der Stahlhelmbund (The Steel helmet league) was conceived as a national veterans organization by Franz Seldte in November of 1918, and was officially founded on Christmas day of that year. It was mostly comprised of WWI veterans trying to assimilate back into what was then a devastated society. The Stahlhelm