Captains

This article deals with the rank of captains . For ranks and persons with the same plural , see captain (officer)

The captains form a rank group in the Bundeswehr . In Austria, the term captains is a collective term for various official titles.

armed forces

The captains form a rank group in the Bundeswehr . The rank group includes several officer ranks immediately below the staff officers , including the captain , who gives the rank group its name.

Ranks

The ranks of the Bundeswehr are determined by the Federal President with the order of the Federal President on the rank designations and the uniform of the soldiers on the basis of the Soldiers Act . The rank group of the men includes according to the central service provision (ZDv) A-1420/24 "ranks and rank groups" several officer ranks of the two ranks below the rank group of officers , but for Heeres- , Air Force and Navy Uniform or medical officers can be different. For medical officers, the different names depending on the licensing direction are medical officer (for human and dental medicine ), medical officer (for pharmacists ) or veterinary officer (for veterinarians). All other officers of the same rank are called captain (army and air force uniform) or captain lieutenant (naval uniform). The higher-ranking ranks of the same rank are staff captain ( army and air force uniform bearer) or staff captain lieutenant (naval uniform bearer).

The following tables summarize all the ranks belonging to the captaincy group. The second table contains the ranks for medical officers , the first for all other officers. The left column of the first table names the ranks for army and air force uniform wearers, the second the ranks for naval uniform wearers. This structure is continued in the same way in the second table, whereby only the rank badges, but not the rank designations, differ between naval uniform wearers on the one hand and army and air force uniform wearers on the other; Only the rank badges for medical doctors are shown . The tables also indicate the corresponding NATO rank code , the  general abbreviations defined according to " ZDv 64/10 - Abbreviations in the Bundeswehr", the abbreviations in lists and the salary group for professional and temporary soldiers according to the federal pay regulations .

Rank group	Captains (except medical officers )
Shoulder flap for jacket of service suit or sleeve badge
Rank	Chief of Staff	Staff Captain Lieutenant	Captain	Lieutenant captain
abbreviation	StHptm / SH	StKptLt / SKL	Hptm / H	KptLt / KL
NATO rank code	OF-2
Grade	A13		A11-12

Medical officers
Rank group	Captains
Shoulder flap for jacket of service suit or sleeve badge **
Rank	Medical officer H Z Medical officer P Medical officer T	Medical officer H Z Medical officer P
abbreviation	StArzt / SA StAp / SAP StVet / SV
NATO rank code	OF-2
Grade	A13 *
H Name for licensed human medicine Z Name for licensed dentist P Name for licensed pharmacist (i. E. Pharmacist ) T Name for licensed veterinarian (i. E. Veterinarian ). Note: Only army uniforms are used as veterinarians. * Compared to other officers of the same rank, these medical officers are assigned one grade higher. ** The rank badge for human medicine is always shown.

Authority to command and positions

Soldiers of the rank group captains can issue orders to soldiers of the rank group enlisted men , NCOs without porters and NCOs with porters and lieutenants on the basis of § 4 ("Superiors relationship based on the rank") of the Superiors Ordinance within the limits set there .

Captains in the raceways of troops service are often among the troops as military leaders in the associations of their branch of service used. Typical uses are as platoon commander , (deputy) company commander or aircraft commander . Experienced captains are also employed on staff posts in the staffs of the units from battalion level , at troop schools , in command authorities or in the ministry , where they often support staff officers in matters of further development of the troops and resource planning.

Military service officers in agencies such as (higher) command authorities , in the ministry, in offices or in military engineering services usually lead specialist (sub) departments that deal with technical, economic or organizational issues. Military music officers are often the second music officer and deputy chief of a music corps .

Medical officers of this rank group are introduced to the medical profession and the special challenge of military emergency care in a manner comparable to civilian assistant physicians at larger medical service facilities of the Bundeswehr before they, for example, work as a troop doctor or ship doctor in the troops. On the basis of these and similar positions, soldiers of the rank group can issue orders to all officially or professionally subordinate soldiers in the cases listed in the Superiors Ordinance. As unit commanders, company commanders are the disciplinary superior of the soldiers who are subordinate to them in accordance with the military disciplinary code .

Appointment and remuneration

Relevant legal basis for the appointment to one of the ranks of the rank group of captains is the Soldier Career Ordinance (SLV) and in addition the Central Service Regulations (ZDv) 20/7. In a corresponding service level to professional soldiers , regular soldiers and ordered reservists are appointed. Prerequisite for appointing one of the ranks of the service level of the main group is people belonging to one of the raceways of the category of the officers . A direct recruitment with a rank of the rank group of the captains is possible with appropriate suitability. Most of the captains had previously served in a rank of the lieutenant 's rank group . The rank of captain (or ranks of the same rank) can then usually be achieved at the earliest four and a half years after being appointed lieutenant. If the recruiting rank was first lieutenant , promotion can take place after four years in the rank of first lieutenant. Music officer candidates must have successfully passed the Kapellmeister examination before being appointed captain . Medical officer candidates must have completed their studies with a license to practice medicine before being appointed to a rank of the rank group captains . Medical officer cadets and music officer candidates are with the appointment to the rank group of captains to medical officers and music officers .

Soldiers of the rank of the main group of people are dependent on the grade and position according to the Federal pay regulation (BBesO) having A 11 to A 13 remunerated . It is noticeable that medical officers are paid a grade higher than officers of the same rank in the rank of captain or lieutenant commander.

Rank badge

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The rank badge of the captains in army or air force uniform shows three or four stars as shoulder badges ; Navy uniform wearers of the rank group show three or four sleeve stripes on both lower sleeves . The two outer stripes are medium wide; the inner one or the two inner ones are narrow. Medical officers can be recognized by additional career badges in four different variants in the form of differently twisted snakes , partly in connection with the Aesculapian staff . The different variants show the approbation subject and enable the person to be addressed with the correct rank.

Headgear

The visor of the men (and also the Leutnante and upper ensigns (sea)) shows a 0.7 cm wide, stumpfgezackten , extending at the screen edge, for military and air Uniform silver-colored (for Marine Uniform gold ), from metal fabrication hand stitched strip . Since the shape and color of the embroidery on the visor of a navy officer can evoke associations with the edge of a well-known butter biscuit , this embroidery is also jokingly referred to as the "biscuit edge".

Equivalent rank groups

The ranks of the captains' rank group are classified with the NATO rank code OF-2.

Use as a collective term

According to the central service regulation (ZDv) A-1420/24, the designation "captains" is determined for the rank group . This is therefore the official collective name for soldiers in the ranks of this rank group. The plural form "captains", which is also grammatically permissible according to Duden , is also avoided in the military parlance of the Bundeswehr if instead of the rank group in the sense of the "normal" plural only several soldiers in the rank of captain are meant. It is not clear in every context whether "captains" mean the rank group or several soldiers with the rank of captain. In contrast to the medical officers and naval uniforms of this rank group, only soldiers in the ranks of captain and staff captain are rarely referred to as "captains".

Collective term in Austria

Captain is a collective term in Austria for several politicians in the office of district captain or governor .

Remarks

1. ↑ Note: The Bundeswehr describes all soldiers who wear the uniform of the respective armed forces as army or air force or naval uniform wearers. The term also includes soldiers outside the three armed forces, for example in the armed forces base , cf. Training as reserve officer candidate in military service. Federal Office for Personnel Management of the Bundeswehr (BAPersBw) - The President., March 13, 2014, accessed on March 26, 2014 . 
2. ↑ The central service regulation A-1420/24 "Ranks and rank groups" replaces the sections B 185 of the central service regulation 14/5 "Soldiers Act", where the rank groups were previously defined. The text from B 185 ZDv 14/5 was adopted unchanged in ZDv A-1420/24. See The Federal Minister of Defense (Ed.): ZDv 14/5. Soldiers Act . DSK AV110100174, change status July 17, 2008. Bonn August 21, 1978, rank designations in the Bundeswehr, p. B 185 (Not to be confused with the Law on the Legal Status of Soldiers (Soldiers Law) ).
3. ↑ In practice, medical officers do not hold ranks of the same rank as staff captain.
4. ↑ Lieutenants and captains are therefore also referred to as troop officers, as long as they do not take on any posts in staff departments "far from the troops" intended for staff officers .
5. ↑ The prerequisite for most careers is a university degree that is relevant to the intended use and at least two years of professional experience. For military music officers, the Kapellmeister exam or an equivalent university examination is required. For medical officers, the approbation as a doctor , dentist , pharmacist or veterinarian .
6. ↑ The four-and-a-half-year period applies to flying personnel , officers in the special forces command who are used for special missions and combat swimmers . For all other officers, the ZDv 20/7 provides a period of five years.
7. ↑ From the Soldatenlaufbahnverordnung : "The promotion to staff doctor or rod veterinary sets the license to practice as a doctor or a doctor , dentist or dentist , veterinarian or vet , he was promoted to staff pharmacist license to practice as a pharmacist or pharmacist and the state examination as a food chemist or food chemist ahead."
8. ↑ The prospective doctor or pharmacist with the rank of lieutenant (theoretically also: first lieutenant) is no longer an officer candidate , but is an officer in the medical service . He remains nevertheless still a medical officer candidates and will only provide the transport using a rank of the rank group of captains medical officer . The same applies to prospective music officers .
9. ↑ ZDv 20/7 on the basis of Section 44 of the Soldiers ' Career Ordinance ( Ordinance on the Careers of Soldiers (Soldiers' Career Ordinance - SLV) . March 19, 2002, Section 44 ( online [accessed on March 25, 2014] Newly drafted by Bek. V. 19 August 2011 I 1813. Last amended by Art. 2 Paragraph 5 G of April 8, 2013 I 730). )
10. ↑ In ZDv 37/10, in addition to the form of sleeve badges described in the Federal President's order on the rank designations and the uniform of the soldiers , corresponding (i.e. identical) shoulder badges for naval uniform wearers are also described.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} The Federal President (ed.): Order of the Federal President on the rank designations and the uniform of the soldiers . BPresUnifAnO. July 14, 1978 ( PDF - Order of the Federal President on the rank designations and uniforms of soldiers from July 14, 1978 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 1067 ), last amended by Article 1 of the order of May 31, 1996 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 746 ) has been changed).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Federal Ministry of Defense , BMVg P II 5 (Ed.): A-1420/24. Central service regulation. Ranks and rank groups . January 19, 2006 ( PDF [accessed February 10, 2016]).
3. ↑ The Federal Minister of Defense (ed.): Law on the legal status of soldiers (Soldiers Act - SG) . Bonn March 19, 1956, § 4 Paragraph 3 (2) - ( PDF [accessed on March 25, 2014] Revised by notice of May 30, 2005 I 1482. Last amended by Art. 1 G of April 8 2013 I 730).
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} Agreed English texts. STANAG 2116 . NATO standardization agreement (STANAG) . NATO codes for grades of military personnel. 5th edition. 1992 (English, NATO Rank Codes - 1992 [accessed March 25, 2014]).
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Federal Minister of Defense ; Command Staff of the Armed Forces IV 1 (Ed.): Abbreviations for use in the Bundeswehr - German Abbreviations - ZDv 64/10 . Bonn January 19, 1979 ( PDF - as of September 17, 1999).
6. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Appendix I (to § 20, paragraph 2, sentence 1) Bundesbesoldungsgesetz orders of A and B . ( Online [accessed on March 25, 2014] Federal salary regulations (BBesO) only apply to professional and temporary soldiers and are an annex to the Federal Salary Act (BBesG)).
7. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Hartmut Bagger , Command Staff of the Armed Forces I 3, Federal Ministry of Defense (Ed.): ZDv 37/10. Suit regulations for soldiers in the Bundeswehr . July 1996. Reprint from October 2008. Bonn July 16, 2008, 4 labels, p. 539 ( digitized version [PDF; 3.5 MB ] Reprint October 2008 replaces first edition from July 1996). Digitized version ( memento of the original from September 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ^ Sascha Lawrenz, Stephan Nakszynski: Ranks in the Bundeswehr. Federal Ministry of Defense , Head of the Press and Information Staff , December 3, 2013, accessed on March 16, 2014 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b} The Federal Minister of Defense (ed.): ZDv 14/5. Soldiers Act . DSK AV110100174, amendment status July 17, 2008. Bonn August 21, 1978, The Superiors Ordinance, p. A 12 1 (Not to be confused with the Ordinance on the Regulation of Military Superiors (Superiors Ordinance - VorgV) ).
10. ↑ Federal Minister of Defense (Ed.): Ordinance on the regulation of the military superior relationship (Superior Ordinance - VorgV) . June 4, 1956, § 4 ( online [accessed on March 25, 2014] Last amended by Art. 1 No. 2 V of October 7, 1981 I 1129).
11. ↑ Federal Minister of Defense (Ed.): Ordinance on the regulation of the military superior relationship (Superior Ordinance - VorgV) . June 4, 1956 ( online [accessed on March 25, 2014] last amended by Art. 1 No. 2 V of October 7, 1981 I 1129).
12. ^ Military disciplinary code (WDO). In: Laws on the Internet . Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection , August 16, 2001, accessed on November 5, 2014 (from August 16, 2001 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 2093 ), last amended by Article 7 of the Act of August 28, 2013 ( Federal Law Gazette I p . 3386 ) has been changed). 
13. ^ Ordinance on the career paths of soldiers (Soldiers' Career Ordinance - SLV) . March 19, 2002 ( online [accessed on March 25, 2014] revised by notice of August 19, 2011 I 1813. Last amended by Art. 2 Par. 5 G of April 8, 2013 I 730).
14. ↑ Note also: Annex (to § 3). Allocation of the career paths of the soldiers to the career groups of the men and women, the NCOs and the officers
15. ↑ The Federal Minister of Defense ; Personnel, Social and Central Affairs Department (Ed.): ZDv 20/7. Provisions for the transport and for the recruitment, acceptance and admission of soldiers . Bonn March 27, 2002, Art. 635 ( PDF ( memento of October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on March 26, 2014] DSK AP210100187, reprint January 2008).
16. ↑ Captain, the. In: duden.de . Bibliographisches Institut GmbH, Dudenverlag, 2013, accessed on November 6, 2011 .