SS Sturmscharführer

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SS-Sturmscharführer Adolf Maurer

The SS-Sturmscharführer (short Stuscha ; speech Sturmscharführer ) was the top rank of the rank group of NCOs with portepee of the Schutzstaffel (SS) in the German Reich .

The rank of SS-Sturmscharführer was only introduced in 1938 together with the rank of SA-Haupttruppführer . Promotions to this prominent rank were comparatively seldom and principally from battalion upwards. The rank was at the time comparable to the rank of Sergeant Major in the Anglo-American armed forces.

The illustrations show the badges of rank or rank badges that were worn as shoulder pieces and collar tabs , but also as sleeve badges from 1942 for camouflage or special suits. The collar tabs with SS runes and the badge of rank were worn on the field gray uniform jacket of the Waffen SS or the gray field blouse.

Ranking and insignia

This SS rank was equal to the SA main troop leader and the staff sergeant at the time . According to today's NATO rank codes , these ranks would be comparable to OR-8. The piping of the shoulder pieces was in the weapon color specified for non-commissioned officers of the Waffen-SS .

Rank
lower:
SS-Hauptscharführer
SS-Sturmscharführer
(Stuscha) 		higher:
SS-Untersturmführer

In addition to the collar tabs, the Sturmscharführer had epaulettes and shoulder boards. Most of these followed the pattern of the Army Sergeant. From 1942 on, the Sturmscharführer of the SS Security Service (SD) formed an exception , when the SD exchanged the army-style epaulets used so far for the shoulder pieces of the Schutzpolizei (branch of the Ordnungspolizei , OrPo). SD Sturmscharführer now wore black-and-silver, braided shoulder pieces, based on the pattern of the masters of the security police (whose shoulder pieces were brown and silver), on a police-green cloth pad. In addition, like the masters of the OrPo, they were allowed to wear the officer's visor cap (here: SS leader) with braided silver cords.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dictionary of German military history. 1st edition. Military Publishing House of the GDR, Berlin 1985, p. 145 Rank badge 29/30.
  2. ↑ 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 )