Imperial German Cockades.

Troops wore cockades or Kokarden displaying the colours of their state on the cap, helmets & shakos. After 1897 the Imperial cockade was worn above the state cockade. On helmets the Imperial cockade was worn on the right hand side, the state on the left. Kaiserliche troops wore on state cockade at all.

Imperial German Cockades, post 1897.

  1. Imperial Cockade
  2. Kingdom of Prussia
  3. Kingdom of Bavaria
  4. Kingdom of Saxony
  5. Kingdom of Wurttemberg
  6. Baden
  7. Hesse
  1. Mecklenburg
  2. Oldenburg
  3. Weimar
  4. Braunschweig
  5. Anhalt
  6. Ducal Saxony
  7. Lippe
  1. Schaumberg-Lippe
  2. Waldeck
  3. Schwarzburg-Sondersheim
  4. Schwarzburg-Rudolfstadt
  5. Reuss
  6. Bremen
  7. Luebeck and Hamburg
Cap Cockade Colours - left to right, top to bottom:
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