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Rank group General / flag officers Senior officers Junior officers Epaulette [9] Sleeve insignia [10] [11] Großadmiral: Admiral: Vizeadmiral: Konteradmiral: Kapitän zur See/ Kommodore: Fregattenkapitän: Korvettenkapitän: Kapitänleutnant: Oberleutnant zur See: Leutnant zur See
Career officers usually start out as enlisted personnel with the lowest rank in one of the three officer candidate battalions of the German Army located in Hammelburg, Idar-Oberstein and Munster. After six months of officer candidate training course in these battalions, containing basic military drill, military law and history, the officer ...
Commissioned officer ranks up to Oberst featured four-pointed golden stars in increasing number according to seniority, and arranged following the Soviet pattern.. Junior officer (lieutenant and captain ranks) shoulder straps were made of silver satin string (German: Silberplattschnur).
As for the field officer ranks, the ornamental border contains aluminium. A similar piping is employed on other uniform parts as well, e.g. on collar points of the service uniform jacket for officer ranks including Oberfähnrich (Army and Luftwaffe), or on the peaked cap (Schirmmütze in German) or mountain cape (German: Bergmütze).
This table contains the final ranks and insignia of the Waffen-SS, which were in use from April 1942 to May 1945, in comparison to the Wehrmacht. [1] The highest ranks of the combined SS (German: Gesamt-SS) was that of Reichsführer-SS and Oberster Führer der SS; however, there was no Waffen-SS equivalent to these positions.
These ranks and insignia were specific to the Heer and in special cases to senior Wehrmacht officers in the independent services; the uniforms and rank systems of the other branches of the Wehrmacht, the Luftwaffe (Air Force) and Kriegsmarine (Navy), were different, as were those of the SS which was a Party organization outside the Wehrmacht.
Junior officers; Captain: Lieutenant: Flight lieutenant: First lieutenant or ... World War II German Army ranks and insignia; Military ranks of the Luftwaffe (1935–45)
In German military, Unteroffizier ("subordinate officer") is both a specific military rank as well as a generic term for any non-commissioned officer (NCO) in the army and air force, while in the navy the term Deckoffizier is used. It has existed since the 17th century. [1] Unteroffizier means a specific junior NCO rank of both the Heer and ...