Chief mate

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The Obermaat is a rank of the Bundeswehr and former German armed forces.

armed forces

Chief mate
Obermaat's shoulder flap (series of 30s) Sleeve badge of the jacket (service suit) of a chief mate (20 series of uses)

Rank badge
Rank group NCOs without portepee
NATO rank code OR-5
Rank Army / Air Force Staff Sergeant
Marine rank Chief mate
Abbreviation (in lists) OMaat (OMT)
Grade A 6-7 according to BBesO

The Obermaat is one of the ranks of the Bundeswehr for naval uniform wearers . The legal basis is the order of the Federal President on the rank designations and uniforms of soldiers and the Soldiers Act .

Rank badge

The rank badges of the chief mate show two angles facing the opening with the tips pointing up and down, the upper angle accompanied by another upper angle above it, on both upper sleeves . The epaulettes show a closed braid in the form of a border.

Others

The rank designation for air force and army uniform carriers of the same rank is staff sergeant . With regard to the authority to command, appointment , pay , the subordinate and superordinate ranks, similarly also with regard to the positions, senior mates and sergeants are equal.

Bundeswehr Cross Black.svg NCO rank
Lower rank   Higher rank
Sergeant
Maat
Fahnenjunker
midshipman 		Staff Sergeant
Obermaat 		Sergeant
Boatswain
Ensign
Ensign at sea

Rank group : Teams-NCOs-NCO-NCOs-Lieutenant-Captains-Staff officers-Generals

National Peoples Army

The Obermaat was a rank in the People's Navy . The mate was lower in rank, the master higher in rank .

Wehrmacht

The Obermaat was a rank in the Navy . The mate was lower in rank, the bosun higher in rank (or alternatively, depending on the career and use, the chief boatman's mate , chief fireworks mate , chief machinist's mate or chief helmsman's mate )

Remarks

  1. ↑ Left: Rank badge on an epaulette for naval uniform wearers of the 30s application series . Right: sleeve badge of the jacket of the service suit of a navy uniform wearer of the 20s usage series. Soldiers in other uses have different use badges.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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 ( digital 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dmb-lv-westfalen.de
  2. ↑ 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. ↑ a b 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]).
  4. ↑ a b c d e The Federal President (Ed.): Order of the Federal President on the rank designations and the uniform of the soldiers . BPresUnifAnO. July 14, 1978 ( gesetze-im-internet.de [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 31. May 1996 ( BGBl. I p. 746 ) has been changed).
  5. ^ 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 ( pingwins.ucoz.de [PDF] as of September 17, 1999).
  6. ↑ 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. ↑ The Federal Minister of Defense (ed.): Law on the legal status of soldiers (Soldiers Act - SG) . Bonn March 19, 1956, § 4 para. 3 (2) - ( gesetze-im-internet.de [PDF; accessed on March 25, 2014] Newly drafted by notice of May 30, 2005 I 1482. Last amended by Art . 1 G of April 8, 2013 I 730).
  8. ↑ a b The equivalent, higher and lower ranks are given in accordance with ZDv 14/5 B 185, cf. 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 Act) . The order of the ranks shown in the info box does not necessarily correspond to one of the regular rank sequences provided for in the Soldiers' Career Ordinance , nor does it necessarily correspond to the rank hierarchy described in the Superiors Ordinance a managerial relationship ).