page_title: Feldgendarmerie
section_title: Postwar reorganization
hierarchical_section_title: Feldgendarmerie / Postwar reorganization
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Stern des Schwarzen Adlerordens (schlechtes Replikat; KEIN Original!), gestiftet 17. Januar 1701 von Friedrich III./I., mit Devise "Suum Cuique" (Jedem das Seine).
context_page_description: The Feldgendarmerie were a type of military police units of the armies of the Kingdom of Saxony, the German Empire and Nazi Germany until the conclusion of World War II in Europe.
context_section_description: With the creation of the Bundeswehr in 1955, many of its branches of service were given names that would at least nominally distinguish them from their logical Wehrmacht equivalents. Thus, military police in the modern Bundeswehr were not called Feldgendarmerie. In fact, the original intent was to call the MPs Militärpolizei, literally military police. However, state officials protested as the law enforcement function in the brand new German constitution had been given primarily to the states, not the federation. The word Polizei (Police) was jealously guarded by the states, so the Federal Defence Ministry searched for a new designation and adopted Feldjäger which was a traditional Prussian regiment with some military police type functions.
caption: The traditional symbol of the Feldjägers is the Prussian Gardestern Schwarzen Adlerordens (The order of the black eagle) created by Frederick I of Prussia.
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