Polizei Pocket Agenda – 1940

This compact Polizeidienst-Taschenkalender is a wartime-issued agenda used by the Ordnungspolizei (Order Police), designed to serve both as a daily planner and reference manual for German police personnel during the Second World War. It typically includes calendars, space for notes, duty rosters, and sections outlining official procedures, ranks, legal references, and organizational charts.

Design Features

• Green textured cover with a silver-embossed national eagle emblem of the Ordnungspolizei, set within an oak leaf wreath clutching a swastika.
• Often includes a pencil loop on the right-hand side, as seen in your photo.
  
  

Inside pages (not visible here) contain:

• A year calendar
• Sections for daily appointments
• Lists of rank insignia, important contact information, and sometimes even first-aid instructions or uniform regulations
  
  

Historical Context

In 1940, the Ordnungspolizei were heavily involved in internal security, military support operations, and increasingly, the enforcement of occupation policies across occupied Europe. Pocket agendas like this would have been issued to senior NCOs and officers as part of their standard field equipment, reflecting the bureaucratic and regimented nature of the German police structure.

Collectability & Educational Value

Today, these agendas are valued by historians and collectors for their detailed administrative contents and as examples of how propaganda and ideology permeated even the most mundane tools of the state. They are especially valuable when still complete and named, or if they contain handwritten notes from the period.