Probably an asinine question on WaA

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I cannot recall the facts about the inspectorate teams - when an inspectorate was assigned a waffenamt number - let's use e/26 as our example - was the inspector and his team moved from factory to factory, or was merely the "chief" inspector moved and integrated into an existing team, or was merely the number reassigned to the next factory's inspectorate division?

For example,

e/26 shifts from Lubeck to Borsigwalde

e/214 shifts from Sauer to Lubeck

e/63 shifts from Oberndorf to Brno

e/77 from Erma to Steyr/Radom

...and so on, whilst some disappear completely. Were the inspectors kept wholly within the armaments system? OR could they be sent to any branch/department, inspecting even say enamel wares? (yes, I know anything used within the military can be marked, but I am referring to previously armaments-specific known inspector numbers)

I am not sure I have ever fully understood the concept of the inspectorates, and thus why I ask (and not even sure where to look in print, my apologies)
 
award shared this link with me, and i've seen this same data elsewhere also, but like you, and kind of confused about the same too, but i think my confusion is based on the dates of when these factories used these codes, which i suspect can be determined by the receiver code posted on the right of the chart linked below.

http://home.scarlet.be/p.colmant/waffenamt.htm
 
I am fully aware of the "movement" of the inspector number, what I am really needing to understand is as I stated in my opening - did the "number" only get reassigned, or did the chief inspector move to the next facility, or was his entire inspectorate?

And of course the Suhl consortium further complicates things...
 
apologies, i think i got sidetracked somewhere there, but i can't answer your question.

i found this, but i don't know the validity of it:

http://www.lugerforum.com/Waffen-NS.htm

quoted from:

When a Waffenamt officer assumed command of an inspection team he received a commission number and a correspondingly numbered set of Abnahmestempel or acceptance stamps, commonly known as the Waffenamt Stamps. If the officer was transferred to another factory he took his stamps with him, but left the rest of the inspection team for the next officer.
Click to expand...

something else to look at:

http://claus.espeholt.dk/mediearkiv/waae.pdf
 
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nothing to back it up but i seem to remember reading that the inspector was actually reassigned and his inspection number followed him
 
I don't have the answer but always believed the numbered followed the chief inspector. As an aside, I often wondered if you could look at the change in location for the stamps and try to figure out if the inspector was being promoted or punished.
 
the E/26 represented the TOWN as a secret way of knowing were parts were comming from. much like you see E221 with a (a) or (e) all were E221 which was Dresden i believe so anything MADE in Dresden was marked E221. (a) would be sub contractor Nahmaschinenteile-AG. so i believe no People moved just a re-assignedment of the Waffenampt was moved which would be allot easier. later in the war many waffenampts were dropped so unless it has been making parts for quite some time they are hard to track

hope this helps

later
vaughn
 
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