Military official
As military officials to members of designated forces predominantly on administrative worked area. They had a military rank , but their legal position was regulated by civil service law.
The historical roots of the military office go back to the time when the standing armies emerged and the necessity arose to create permanent military facilities especially for the administrative, financial and material-technical security of the armies and to staff them with forces that were necessary Had special knowledge (e.g. in the field of administration , accounting , magazine supply). Their numbers regularly received a further boost when the company economy was abolished in an army . Their number, importance and areas of application have expanded more and more in the period that followed.
They were mainly used in administrative services, in general offices, in the judiciary , education and veterinary services , in technical and scientific institutions as well as in military pastoral care. Depending on their position and rank , the military officers were either subordinate to the military superior or to this and at the same time to the superior officer.
In addition to the military officials, there were also civil servants of the military administration without military rank in the armies.
Military officials in Germany
The status and legal position of military officials were regulated by statutory provisions, of which the military pension regulations for officers and military officials of June 13, 1825 applied to the Prussian army . From the unification were for military officers in the German army and the Imperial Navy , the law concerning the legal status of imperial officials from 31 March 1873 and the Regulation concerning the class division of military officers of the Imperial Army and Navy of 29 June 1880 (and following changes the same). These regulations differentiated military officials into upper military officials and lower military officials . As upper military officials, those were counted in the officer rank , while the rest of the lower military officials counted in the sergeant rank.
literature
- Rudolf Absolon: The Wehrmacht in the Third Reich. (Volume II) Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard am Rhein 1971, ISBN 3-7646-1548-6 , pp. 101–152.
