Ordinance officer

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Captain Fritz Milenz (1921–2007) as Ordonnanzoffizier (right) with General Rudolf Reichert (left), 1944

An orderly officer is usually a junior officer ( lieutenant to captain ) who is assigned to a commander or commander as an assistant. His area of ​​responsibility is comparable to that of an adjutant. Unlike an adjutant, there is no special post in the Bundeswehr for an orderly officer.

history

The facility was first introduced in France as Planton (from planter for plant, notice , e.g. Sergeant de planton ). This referred to a soldier who was permanently assigned to a general or an agency for special services. In the 18th century this function found its way into the military outside France.

In the Kingdom of Prussia there were regular mounted orderly officers in the staffs of the brigades or divisions since the Wars of Liberation in 1813/14 . Their task was to support the commanders as well as the general staff officers and adjutants (in this sense also the aide-de-camp ). It was therefore obvious that they should approach these in their area of ​​responsibility. Contemporaries already established that orderly officers must therefore be “selected personalities who are particularly suitable for their service through their performance and reliability”. In the Prussian Army , the orderly officers were a pre-selection of general staff officers according to their character , (academic) training and origin. The body gendarmerie (Prussia) was a special orderly formation .

Ordinances

NCOs and men were, as officers' boys, personal “servants” of senior staff officers. In military casinos or trade fairs (e.g. officers 'casinos or non-commissioned officers' mess) in the Bundeswehr , waiters from the military are still referred to today as orderlies and addressed as orderlies.

literature

  • Reinhard Brühl (among others): Dictionary of German Military History , Vol. 2, Berlin (East) 1985.
  • Bernhard von Poten (Ed.): Hand word book of the entire military sciences , Vol. 7, Leipzig / Bielefeld 1879.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Reinhard Brühl (among others): Dictionary of German Military History , Vol. 2, Berlin (East) 1985, pp. 735f
  2. ↑ Bernhard von Poten (Ed.): Handworterbuch der Complete Militarywissenschaften , Vol. 7, Leipzig / Bielefeld 1879, p. 396
  3. ↑ Bernhard von Poten (Ed.): Handworterbuch der Complete Militarywissenschaften , Vol. 7, Leipzig / Bielefeld 1879, p. 265