The jacket made of fine black cloth with silver rune buttons (complete with small chain), with a pointed lapel in silk, a border of silver cord on the collar and cuffs, black silk lining with the tailor's label "H. H. Dohmessen & Co. Berlin Hermann Göring Str. 4" in the back and corresponding tailor's label with the wearer's name "... Ludwig ... Juni 1938" in the inside pocket. A chest badge pinned on, with red eyes underlaid, a pair of stitched, silver braid shoulder boards, a brassard with silver cord trim, a cuff band with silver-embroidered Roman numeral "XIV", Honour Chevron for the Old Guard, silver lanyard with "simple" whistles, orders loops.The waistcoat made of the same material with silver rune buttons, silk back and white silk lining, the tailor's label "H. H. Dohmessen & Co. Berlin Hermann Göring Str. 4" with the wearer's name "... Ludwig ... Juni 1938" in the cinch on the back. The matching trousers with white piping in the side seams and broad, white stripes with silver trim, the black silk lining with the tailor's label "H. H. Dohmessen & Co. Berlin Hermann Göring Str. 4" and the wearer's name "... Ludwig ... Juni 1938". Extremely rare find. We are only aware of the existence of one other complete, full evening dress uniform.Includes a wooden plate inscribed "Gau-Westfalen-Nord" that belonged to Ludwig.Moreover, photographs and documents from the estate of the Air Force member who seized the uniform. He was part of a special unit that prosecuted and compiled evidence against high-ranking members of the NS government. One of the photographs shows comrades of the unit with the looted wooden plate, possibly in Ludwig's villa.Curt Ludwig (1902 - 1989) served from 1919 to 1923 with the Navy Brigade Ehrhard, joined the NSDAP in 1923, the SA in 1926 and the SS in 1929. Commander of the SS Sturmbann I/14 (Gotha) in 1933, member of the Thuringian state parliament from 1929 to 1933, Reichstag representative for Thuringia in 1933 and later for the constituency of Weser-Ems. Commander of the SS Abschnitt XXX (Kassel) in 1935 and of the SS Abschnitt XIV (Bremen-Horn) in 1937. Chief of police in Bremen in 1938. General staff of the Höherer SS- und Polizeiführer in Reichsgau Wartheland in 1942, commander of the SS Abschnitt V (Essen) in 1943, general staff of the SS Oberabschnitt Fulda-Werra in 1944. Appointed SS Brigadeführer on 20 April 1945. In US detention until 1948, before being cleared by a denazification tribunal and categorised as a follower after a pardon in 1952.Condition: I - II