Paring knife

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Parachute parachute knife of the East German NVA
Melee dagger, parachute switchblade, rifle grenade, hand grenade

Chopping knives are tools that are specially designed for cutting through ropes and lines. They are used by fire brigades , parachutists (to separate an unopened umbrella), in height rescue , canyoning and sailing .

Trimming knives can be made with a fixed blade or as a folding or drop knife . In some cases, the tip of the blade is provided with a "button" or blunted to avoid stab injuries when used close to the body.

Aviator's cutting knife of the WH Air Force (with pricker )

In many cases, the blade is curved inwardly and completely or partially with a serrated edge or a serrated provided.

The “ divers knife ” is also regarded as a paring knife to enable the diver to free himself from lines and nets under water.

history

whaling

Trimming knives were used, for example, in whaling in the 18th century and were used to cut ropes or tow ropes.

Aviator's cutting knife

Probably the best known paring knives are the aviator's paring knives developed in 1936 by the Solingen metal goods factory for the air force . These knives were initially given out exclusively to aircraft crews and paratroopers of the Wehrmacht and were used as rescue knives.In the course of the 2nd World War the role of this knife changed fundamentally. Due to the heavy fighting on the Eastern Front, the Flieger-Kappmesser in 1944 were also given to the 1st Skijägerdivision deployed on the Eastern Front. SS units also had centralized stocks of these "special knives", which were given to the top platoons before attacks on the Russian front. The entry of October 18, 1943 in the war diary of Organization Department II of the Army General Staff read: “Since the troops often wish to abolish the 84/98 side gun, the 42 side gun , the army dagger , is used for the first time in troop trials and given the pilot's cap knife ”.

The post-war version (s) of this knife were used by the German Armed Forces from 1958 to 2017 .

literature

  • Dietmar Pohl: knife of German special forces . Motorbuch, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 978-3-613-02526-4 (192 pages).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Duden | Paring knife | Spelling, meaning, definition. Retrieved March 13, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Johann Theodor Jablonski: General Lexicon of the Arts and Sciences, or, clear description of the realm of nature, the heavens and heavenly bodies, the air, the earth . 1767 ( google.de [accessed on March 12, 2018]).
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  6. ↑ Chris McNab : Hitler's eagles: the Luftwaffe, 1933-45 . Osprey, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-1-78096-283-2 , pp. 119 .
  7. ^ Brüning, Jan-Peter: The aviator's paring knife . 4th edition. Self-published, Stuttgart 2019 ( ww2wrecks.com ).
  8. ^ Journal of Heereskunde . tape 52 . German Society for Military Studies, 1988.