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The overview contains the ranks and insignia of the Waffen-SS , which were used from April 1942, compared to the Wehrmacht .
Badge of rank in the Waffen SS
Equivalent of the Wehrmacht (the army - and in the Air Force , only names, not for shoulders)
Collar Tabs
Shoulder piece
Rank designation
Special clothing
Rank designation
Shoulder piece
General ranks
Reichsführer-SS
Field Marshal General
SS Colonel Group Leader and Colonel General of the Waffen SS
Colonel General
SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen SS
General of the branch of service
SS group leader and lieutenant general of the Waffen SS
Lieutenant General
SS Brigadefuhrer and Major General of the Waffen SS (newly created in 1933)
Major general
Officer ranks
SS-Oberführer
no equivalent (see also Commodore in the Wehrmacht Navy )
SS standard leader
Colonel
SS-Obersturmbannführer (newly created in 1933)
Lieutenant colonel
SS-Sturmbannführer
major
SS-Hauptsturmführer (before 1935 Sturmhauptführer)
Captain
SS-Obersturmführer (newly created in 1933)
First lieutenant
SS-Untersturmführer (until 1935 SS-Sturmführer)
lieutenant
Unterführer
SS-Sturmscharführer (newly created in 1938)
Staff Sergeant
Fahnenjunker Staff Sergeant ( Officer Candidate - OA)
SS-Stabsscharführer (as a service position in the sense of Company-Scharführer, short also "Spieß", created in 1938 in the units of the Waffen SS)
("Spit Piston Rings")
Hauptfeldwebel (as a service position in the sense of company sergeant , short also "Spieß", created in 1938 in the units of the Army and Air Force)
SS-Stabsscharführer (position as "Spieß", newly created in 1938)
Hauptfeldwebel (position as company sergeant / "Spieß", newly created in 1938)
SS-Hauptscharführer
Sergeant Major
SS-Standartenoberjunker ( leader candidate - FA)
Fahnenjunker-Oberfeldwebel (OA)
SS-Oberscharführer
sergeant
SS-Standartenjunker (FA)
Fahnenjunker Sergeant (OA)
SS squad leader
Sergeant major
SS-Oberjunker (FA)
Fahnenjunker-Unterfeldwebel (OA)
SS-Unterscharführer
Sergeant
SS Junker (FA)
Fahnenjunker NCO (OA)
Teams
no equivalent
Corporal
SS Rottenführer
Corporal more than 6 years
Corporal less than 6 years
SS storm man
Private
SS-Oberfunker (color: lemon yellow, otherwise like SS-Oberschützen )
Senior soldier, e.g. B. Oberschützen , Obergrenadier, Oberkanonier, etc
SS riflemen
Soldier , e.g. B. Riflemen , grenadiers , gunners etc.
SS applicants
Conscript or volunteer applicant for a career as a regular or professional soldier in the Wehrmacht
annotation
See also
Individual evidence
↑ Quotation according to: "Schlag nach !, Bibliographisches Institut AG., Leipzig, 1938, p. 203".
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