Candidate (armed forces)
In soldier law, a candidate is a soldier in military training in a career of the career group of NCOs or officers ( SLV ).
Breakdown into career paths and career groups
In the career paths of the Bundeswehr, which are similar to those of civil service law , in accordance with the Soldiers' Career Ordinance ( SLV ), the following career groups are provided for candidates:
The above career groups are divided into different careers. In the careers of the career group of NCOs, there are predominantly the NCO candidates and sergeants . The largest group of candidates in the officers' career group are the officer candidates for service . There are also z. B. Medical Officer Candidates and Military Music Officer Candidates. Many careers also have a variant for candidates in an employment relationship for reservists , so that z. B. Reserve Officer Candidates . A specialty is the officer candidate in the career of officers in the military technical service . No newly recruited soldiers can pursue this career path. It is only open to particularly high-performing NCOs with portepee and without portepee . If they do not yet have the status of a professional soldier , candidate officers of the military technical service are awarded this quality with their appointment as lieutenant or lieutenant at sea .
Legal status
There is no institute for soldiers comparable to the civil servant . Candidates are awarded a grade that corresponds to the office in the legal sense of the status as well as the official title . So you are not formally in a preparatory service or do not have a salutation comparable to the service title. They also do not receive any candidate payments, but a regular salary corresponding to their rank .
Bundeswehr candidates - unlike those who are civil servants - cannot be dismissed at any time . However, a military candidate can be dismissed within the first four years of his service if he no longer meets the requirements that are to be placed on him in his career or without notice, if he has culpably violated his official duties and if he has remained in his employment relationship would seriously endanger military order or the reputation of the Bundeswehr ( Section 55 Soldiers Act ). Before being called into a soldiery relationship, the candidates are called "applicants".
Ranks
Not all ranks of a rank group have to be passed through. Some of the ranks of some of the officer candidates have their own designations. As a rule, officer candidates go through the following ranks in the career of officers in military service:
- lowest rank ,
- Private (OA),
- Corporal (OA),
- Fahnenjunker (corresponds to NCO ) or midshipman (corresponds to mate ),
- Ensign (corresponds to sergeant ) or ensign to the sea (corresponds to boatswain ) and
- Oberfähnrich (corresponds to Hauptfeldwebel ) or Oberfähnrich zur See (corresponds to Hauptbootsmann ),
before they are appointed lieutenant or lieutenant at sea as the lowest officer rank.
Career badge
Candidates often wear a "career candidate badge". Candidates for non-commissioned officers wear a transverse, old silver-colored metal strip on their rank badges; In the case of the slip-on loops for the field suit, there is a corresponding black woven stripe in the olive-colored, or a white woven stripe in the black or dark blue cotton fabric. Candidates for mates wear a gold-colored horizontal bar on both sleeves just above the rank badge; Boatswain candidate a double gold-colored horizontal bar. Sergeants of the Army and the Air Force (from the lowest team rank to the rank of staff sergeant) wear an old gold-colored cord made of woven metal as a pull-over loop in addition to the rank badges on all epaulettes and sliding loops. In addition to the rank badges, the officer cadet wears a silver-colored cord made of woven metal as a pull-over loop on all epaulettes and sliding loops.
In the case of the head ensign, this cord is only to be attached to the combat clothing, because in the service suit you wear the lieutenant's uniform with regard to identification. With the rank badge of the service suit, they wear the corner of the head of the sergeant major, but without the shoulder flap border made of a 0.8 cm wide, light old gold-colored braid made of woven metal.
Medical officer candidates (and medical officers) in all areas of uniform wear (army, air force, navy) usually wear a career badge on their rank badge, which shows whether they are in training to become a doctor, dentist, pharmacist or veterinarian. Officer candidates of the Navy wear the career badge “Starfish” like naval officers.
Rank supplements
In correspondence, candidates must add the appropriate grade suffixes "(Sergeant Candidate)" or "(UA)", "(Maatanwärter)" or "(MA)" "(Boatswain Candidate)" or "(BA)", "(Sergeant Candidate)" or "(FA ) ”Or“ (Officer Candidate) ”or“ (OA) ”etc. after their rank. However, this does not apply, for example, to the ensign, midshipman, ensign (at sea), senior ensign (at sea) in the career paths of the troop service, since these ranks can only be held by aspirants anyway.
In the oral salutation there is no additional rank.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ PIZ staff: occupation and calling: officer. In: http://www.personal.bundeswehr.de/ . January 7, 2019, accessed January 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Uwe Henning: 130 medical officer candidates solemnly appointed lieutenant. In: http://www.sanitaetsdienst-bundeswehr.de/ . July 1, 2016, accessed January 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Candidate Reserve Officer. In: http://www.luftwaffe.de/ . July 25, 2018, accessed January 13, 2019 .
- ↑ Central Guideline A1-2630 / 0-9804 - Suit regulations for the Bundeswehr. (PDF) In: http://www.reservisten.bundeswehr.de/ . SKA KompZResAngelBw, September 7, 2018, accessed on January 13, 2019 .
