Prussian color sequence
The Prussian color sequence was used to color-code the sequence of associations or units within a military association. Historically, soldiers used to be assigned to their respective units on the basis of button strips, buttons, shoulder pieces , tassels and other uniform parts in different colors.
The order was:
| 1. | White | |
| 2. | red | |
| 3. | yellow | |
| 4th | blue | |
| 5. | green | |
| 6th | brown |
The motto is: “We like to straighten when visibility is good” or for non-artillerymen: “We like to smoke especially big chubby” or “We like to smoke cheap big Brazil”.
Within a regiment, the colors were first distributed to the battalions, which in turn were divided into four companies. You could tell the difference by the color of the tassel. One battalion had the stalk "white", one company the slider "white", so white-white was 1st company of the 1st battalion, etc.
Errors
In some cases, the first company of some units is given the blue color in the coat of arms, since this is the supply and support company, supply troop units are marked with the weapon color blue.
armed forces
Unofficially, the Bundeswehr also ties in with the Prussian color sequence in some areas. The boards of the association badges of most of the brigades before 1990, and sometimes even afterwards, were kept in the color sequence white-red-yellow according to their ordinal number (white board = "first" brigade, red = "second" brigade, yellow = "third" brigade ).
The company colors can also be found in internal association badges of various units. Furthermore, they are partly in the form of a so-called "instructor cord" (a braided cord in the respective color at the end of which a whistle is attached, one end is attached to the right shoulder flap and the end with the whistle is stowed in the breast pocket) or a colored pad made of felt that is worn under the beret badge . However, this form of labeling is not official and in some cases is only tolerated within the units or properties.
The heavy, 5th Company , is today (due to historical circumstances) the black one .