Model 24 Stielhandgranate
The Model 24 Stielhandgranate ("stalk hand grenade") was the principal hand grenade used by the German military from 1924 to the end of World War 2. Essentially a blast-effect concussion grenade, the weapon consisted of an explosive head with a 5-second chemical fuse armed using a pull-cord friction igniter.
The Model 24 was a further simplification of the series of grenades that began in World War 1 with the Model 15 Stielhandgranate (which initially featured a loose pull cord, with a threaded cap screwed into the base of the shaft added to retain the cord after several unfortunate accidents) and progressed through the Model 16 Stielhandgranate and Model 17 Stielhandgranate. The primary change in the Model 24 was the elimination of the belt clip on the grenade's head, and less obviously it also got rid of the star-shaped grip on the base of the end cap.
The long handle allowed the Model 24 to be thrown significantly further than a standard grenade, at a cost of increased size and weight per grenade. Complaints about the relatively small blast radius led to the development of the Splitterring fragmentation sleeve in 1942.
The long handle and club-like head earned the weapon the nickname of "potato masher" among Allied troops. The structure of the grenade allowed for some unorthodox uses such as suspending grenades from barbed wire by their cords so that any disturbance would arm them, and the creation of the "Geballte Ladung" ("bundled charge") where six additional grenade heads were secured around the head of a central grenade with wire to create a powerful improvised demolition charge.
A smoke version (Nebelhandgranate 39) marked with a white band (and later a grooved handle so it would not be mistaken for an HE grenade in the dark) was designed in 1939, and models for the Russian front (where the original model often failed to detonate in cold weather) feature a "K" ("Kalt," "Cold") marking. Attempts were made to replace the Model 24 with simpler grenades, with these including the Model 39 Eihandgranate and Model 43 Stielhandgranate, but the Model 24 remained in production until the end of the war.
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Specifications
(1924-1945)
Type: Hand grenade
Weight: 1.3 lbs (0.6 kg)
Length: 14.4 in (36.5 cm)
Filling: TNT
The Model 24 Stielhandgranate appears in the following films, television series, and video games used by the following actors:
Film
Television
| Show Title / Episode | Actor | Character | Note/Episode | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rat Patrol | Christopher George | Sgt. Sam Troy | 1966 - 1968 | |
| Rat Patrol | Sheik | "The Fire and Brimstone Raid" | 1966 - 1968 | |
| Rat Patrol | German soldiers | 1966 - 1968 | ||
| Stawka wieksza niz zycie | Stanislaw Mikulski | Capt. Hans Kloss | "Wiem kim jestes" (S1E01) | 1966 - 1968 |
| Stawka wieksza niz zycie | Andrzej May | Jacek | "Wiem kim jestes" (S1E01) | 1966 - 1968 |
| Stawka wieksza niz zycie | German and Polish soldiers | 1966 - 1968 | ||
| Legend of the Living Dead (Legenda o živých mrtvých) | German soldiers | 1971 | ||
| Once There Was a House (Byl jednou jeden dum) | German soldier | "Obvaziste Boccaccio" (S1E5) | 1974 | |
| Omega Option (Variant "Omega") | German and Soviet soldiers | Seen in documentary footage | 1975 | |
| Archiv des Todes | Alfred Struwe | Standartenführer Hauk | "Das Grab im Schacht" (S1E11) | 1980 |
| Archiv des Todes | German soldiers | 1980 | ||
| Eternal Call (Vechnyy zov) - Season 2 | German soldiers | 1983 | ||
| Front Without Mercy (Front ohne Gnade) | SS personnel, saboteurs | Ep.2,11 | 1984 | |
| Anzacs | German troops | 1985 | ||
| The State Border: Film 5 | German soldiers | 1986 | ||
| Special Operations Squad (Otryad spetsyalnogo naznacheniya) | Soviet partisans | 1987 | ||
| Lenin...The Train | German soldiers | anachronistic | 1988 | |
| Band of Brothers | German soldiers | 2001 | ||
| Dunkirk | German soldiers | 2004 | ||
| The Somme | German soldiers | 2005 | ||
| Liquidation (Likvidatsiya) | Sergey Makovetskiy | Fima Poluzhid | Model 24 "Geballte Ladung" | 2007 |
| "Narkomovskiy" Train (Narkomovskiy oboz) | Sergey Makhovikov | Starshina Viktor Filippov | 2011 | |
| Darya Baranova | Sgt. Varvara Kerjak | |||
| German soldiers | ||||
| Red Mountains (Krasnye gory) | Nazi German soldier | 2013 | ||
| Snipers. Love Under the Gun (Snaypery. Lyubov pod pritselom) | German soldiers | 2013 | ||
| Our Mothers, Our Fathers | German soldiers | 2013 | ||
| Peaky Blinders | as booby trap | 2013 | ||
| Foyle's War - Season 8 | German soldiers | "Sunflower" (S8E3) | 2013 | |
| Black Cats (Chyornye koshki) | Mikhail Khmurov | Grif | "Geballte Ladung" | 2013 |
| Aleksandr Suvorov | Maj. Fyodor Akimovich | |||
| Days of Honour. Uprising (Czas honoru. Powstanie) | Jan Wieczorkowski | Wladek Konarski | 2014 | |
| Days of Honour. Uprising (Czas honoru. Powstanie) | Adam Fidusiewicz | Marian 'Wilk' Suchecki | 2014 | |
| Days of Honour. Uprising (Czas honoru. Powstanie) | German soldiers, Polish insurgents | 2014 | ||
| Front | Yuriy Itskov | Trokhin | 2014 | |
| Boris Dragilyov | Trokhin's assistant | |||
| The Interpreter (Perevodchik) | German soldiers | 2014 | ||
| Man in the High Castle, The - Season 3 | German military | 2018 | ||
| One Warrior in the Field (Odin v pole voin) | Aleksandr Sokolovskiy | Capt. Andrey Perevezyev | 2018 | |
| German soldiers | ||||
| Black Pea Coats (Chyornye bushlaty) | Vyacheslav Krikunov | Levontiy | 2018 | |
| Ivan Lapin | Kesha | |||
| Evgeniy Chernoray | Krokha | |||
| Anton Filipenko | Timofey | |||
| Nikita Kudryavtsev | Motya | |||
| The Last Battle (Posledniy boy) | Vladimir Gorislavets | Yashka | 2019 | |
| German soldiers | ||||
| The Black Sea (Chyornoye more) | (uncredited) | Capt. Lt. Nikolay Stupin | 2020 | |
| The Saboteur 3: Crimea (Diversant. Krym) | Artyom Alekseev | Oberleutnant Hans Gerhard Bahnsen | 2020 | |
| Konstantin Gaponov | Sanya | |||
| Dzhulbars | German soldiers | 2020 |
Video Games
Anime
| Title | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro | Count Cagliostro's henchmens | 1979 | |
| Seven Cities Story: Arctic Front | New Camelot soldier | 1994 | |
| Trigun | Ruth Loose | "Geballte Ladung" configuration | 1996 - 1997 |
| Kochikame | 1996 - 2005 | ||
| Space Pirate Captain Herlock: The Endless Odyssey - Outside Legend | Kei Yuki | 2002 | |
| Hellsing Ultimate | Millennium forces | 2006 - 2012 | |
| Yozakura Quartet | Kotoha Isone | 2008 - 2014 | |
| Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood | Fuhrer King Bradley | 2009 - 2010 | |
| Angel Beats! | Guild Members | High-Explosives | 2010 |
| JoJo's Bizarre Adventure | Rudol von Stroheim | 2012 | |
| Joker Game | German soldiers | 2016 | |
| Izetta: The Last Witch | Germanian soldiers | 2016 | |
| Saga of Tanya the Evil | Tanya von Degurechaff | Ep. 05 | 2017 |
| Empire mages | |||
| The Dragon Dentist | Blanco | "Geballte Ladung" configuration | 2017 |
| Violet Evergarden | A Garderik soldier | Ep. 09 | 2018 |
| Isidor | Ep. 12 |
See Also
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