SS riflemen

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SS grenadier in camouflage clothing (SS Division Hitler Youth).
Panzer grenadiers of the SS Panzer Division Hitler Youth lined up to be awarded the Iron Cross .

SS-Schütze (short: Schü ; speech: Schütze ) was the lowest rank of the rank group of the men in the Waffen-SS (1940 to 1945) for infantrymen in the German Reich . Depending on the type of weapon, there were - analogous to the army - independent (equal) names such as SS grenadier, SS radio operator, SS gunner, SS tank grenadier, SS pioneer, etc.

origin

The Regulation of the heads of the army command in the Reichswehr of 6 December 1920, the name was contactors as unterster enlisted in the land forces , first in the infantry and later into the developing tank forces introduced there Panzerschütze.

SS disposable troops / Waffen SS

As in the General SS and the SS Totenkopfverband, the term SS applicant or relay applicant was initially used in the SS disposal force . With the transition of the SS available troops to the Waffen SS from 1940, the military rank of SS rifleman was used here.

Armed SS

The pictures show the badges of rank or rank badges that were worn as shoulder pieces , collar tabs and sleeve badges . The collar tabs were worn on the field gray uniform jacket of the Waffen SS or the gray field blouse.

Ranking and insignia

This rank was that of the OR-1 soldiers at the time, e.g. B. Riflemen in the army or aviators in the Air Force , but also equated with sailors in the navy of the time .

An SS shooter was after a minimum standing time of six to twelve months for SS Oberschuetzen be transported. The piping of the shoulder pieces was kept in the weapon color specified for soldiers of the Waffen-SS .

According to today's NATO rank codes , these ranks would be comparable to OR-1 junior.

Rank
lower:
none
SS rifleman
(Schü) 		higher:
SS Oberschützen
  • Badge of rank SS rifleman

  • Shoulder piece
    (the same for all Waffen-SS men)

  • Collar tabs
    (same for SS riflemen and SS upper riflemen)

  • National emblem
    (left upper arm, cloth uniform)

See also

References and comments

  1. ^ Official renaming of the available troops in March 1940 in Waffen-SS ... after Gordon Williamson: The SS - Hitler's instrument of power. 1994; P. 54.
  2. ↑ 'Dictionary of German Military History.' 1st edition. Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1985, p. 145 Rank badge 29/30.
  3. ↑ OR stands for Other ranks , cf. NATO glossary abbreviations used in NATO documents and publications / Glossaire OTAN des abréviations utilisées dans les documents et publications OTAN ( Memento of 8 May 2010 in the Internet Archive )