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The lower ranks of SA-Führer and SA-Mann still wore no insignia. An SA unit insignia patch; here: Sturm 12/Standarte 93. In 1927, the officer rank of SA-Führer became known by the title of Sturmführer and a higher officer rank known as Sturmbannführer was created to be held by battalion formation commanders directly subordinate to the ...
The Sturmabteilung (German: [ˈʃtʊʁmʔapˌtaɪlʊŋ] ⓘ; SA; lit. ' Storm Division ' or 'Storm Troopers') was the original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party.It played a significant role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Corps colours, or Troop-function colours (German: "Waffenfarben") were worn in the German Wehrmacht from 1935 until 1945 as discrimination criteria between several branches, special services, corps, rank groups, and appointments of the ministerial area, the general staff, the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), up to the military branches of the Heer, Luftwaffe and Kriegsmarine.
Sturmführer Zwiebel of the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) in Riga, 1943; note the three pips on his gorget patch. Sturmführer ([ˈʃtʊʁm.fyːʀɐ], "storm leader") was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party which began as a title used by the Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1925 and became an actual SA rank in 1928.
Sturmbannführer (German: [ˈʃtʊʁmbanˌfyːʁɐ]; lit. ' assault unit leader ' [1]) was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank equivalent to major [2] that was used in several Nazi organizations, such as the SA, SS, and the NSFK.
Since early ranks of the Schutzstaffel (SS) were identical to the ranks of SA, Oberscharführer was created as an SS rank at the same time the position was created within the SA. Initially, the rank of SS-Oberscharführer was equal to its SA counterpart; however, this changed in 1934 following the Night of the Long Knives. [1] At that time, the ...
Rottenführer was first established in 1932 as an SA rank due to an expansion of the organisation requiring a greater number of enlisted positions. Since early SS ranks were identical to the ranks of the SA, Rottenführer became an SS rank at the same time. Rottenführer was the first SS and SA position to have command over other paramilitary ...
Sturmmann was senior to the rank of Mann in the Allgemeine-SS (general-SS). [3] In organizations which did not use the rank of Mann (such as the National Socialist Motor Corps), the rank of Sturmmann was the equivalent of a private and wore a blank collar patch with no insignia. [4] Within the Waffen-SS, an SS-Sturmmann was senior to an SS ...