Armored soldier
In the First World War, armor soldiers were soldiers of the German army who did not actively take part in the fighting "in the field", but were busy with the construction, maintenance and operation of the fortifications ( armouring ) in the rear area ( stage ). Often men were used for this who were not or no longer fully capable of using the field.
The term is no longer common in today's language, but can be found in several biographies of well-known personalities who were deployed as armor soldiers in World War I, including Kurt Tucholsky , Carl von Ossietzky , Karl Liebknecht , Rudolf Breitscheid and Arnold Zweig .
The tasks of the armored soldiers are now part of the range of skills of the engineer force .