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Germany, Third Reich. German Police dress dagger from Arnsberg.
III Reich Polizei Seitengewehr.
In 1929, during the Weimar Republic, the Police dagger was introduced as regulation, featuring an eagle’s head pommel, antler grip, and leather scabbard. In 1936, when Hitler came to power, the German Police was reorganized and centralized under Heinrich Himmler’s control, and from then on the existing daggers were modified with the Police emblem of the Third Reich: the eagle clutching the swastika and surrounded by an oak-leaf wreath. In the following years, bayonets of the same design but shorter were also produced. In 1938, all daggers from the Weimar period were officially supposed to be shortened, although in practice this was not always enforced. These models continued to be produced until 1941, when the S84/98 bayonet was adopted as the regulation weapon for the German Police. Nevertheless, personal use of the daggers extended until the end of World War II.
This example was manufactured at the end of the Weimar Republic (1929–1933) by E. & F. Hörster of Solingen, and was later reissued and used by the German Police of the Third Reich, with the blade shortened to the regulation 33 cm. The marking «S. Ar. I. 898.» indicates that it was issued to the Schutzpolizei of Arnsberg (Westphalia).
Original German dagger from World War II WW2.
Total length: 48 cm
Dagger length: 44.7 cm
Blade length: 32.8 cm
