Rotte (military)
Except as a term for small associations in military aviation and shipping, as well as a single term QRA (see (rotting aviation) ) is the term rotting today in the German military only for side by side or one after the other soldiers standing in being beaten closed units used.
In the tripartite Antreteordnung the armed forces are in line- three soldiers behind the other referred to as rotting be encountered formations respectively. In the marching order , a group consists of soldiers standing side by side. Rotten, which consist of less than three soldiers, are called blind Rotte . In the marching order, blind squads always have two soldiers who go outside, the middle seat remains free. If soldiers of a rank group or assignment stand together in a group, this is also referred to as NCO groups or trainer groups etc. Deviating from this, the standard bearer and his two flag attendants are not addressed as a squad, even if they march side by side in the marching or parade order. The counter-terms to the group are in the line formation the member (the soldiers standing next to each other) and in the marching order the row (the soldiers marching one behind the other).
In the tactical bodies of the infantry of earlier battle orders, the soldiers standing one behind the other were referred to as a gang. The Greek phalanx was usually 6, 8 or 12 men deep. The basic idea of forming infantry formations according to Rotten was taken up again with the re-emergence of the infantry in the 15th century. From the 18th century onwards, the gang lost its meaning in the battle orders and was replaced by the order by members.
In the Waffen-SS in the German Reich from 1934 to 1945, the SS Rottenführer was derived from the term Rotte as the highest rank of the rank group of the teams .
literature
Herbert Schwarz: Combat forms of infantry in Europe through 800 years , Munich 1977