NCOs with portepee

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The NCOs with Portepee form a rank group of the Bundeswehr , which includes all higher NCO ranks. All lower-ranking non-commissioned officers include the rank group of non-commissioned officers .

etymology

Etymologically , the rank group designation goes back to the lower rank below the officers and to the French word portepee for a fist strap ( French porte-épée , literally: sword holder). Specially designed wrist straps were used in earlier German armed forces to mark higher NCO ranks.

Ranks

The ranks of the Bundeswehr are determined by the Federal President with the order of the Federal President on the rank designations and the uniform of the soldiers on the basis of the Soldiers Act . The rank group of the NCOs with Portepee includes according to the central service provision (ZDv) A-1420/24 "ranks and rank groups" all NCO Ranks from Sergeant and Ensign (for Heeres- and Air Force Uniform ) or Bootsmann and ensign (for Marine Uniform ).

The following tables summarize all ranks belonging to the rank group of NCOs with portepee. The first table gives the corresponding ranks for army and air force uniform wearers, the second table summarizes the rank group classification for naval uniform wearers. The tables also include the corresponding NATO rank code , the  general abbreviations defined in accordance with ZDv 64/10 - Abbreviations in the Bundeswehr, as well as the abbreviations in lists and the salary group for professional and temporary soldiers according to the federal pay regulations .

Army and air force uniforms
Rank group NCOs with portepee
Shoulder
flap jacket service suit
Rank badge of a sergeant major of the Army Reconnaissance Force on the shoulder flap of the jacket of the service suit for army uniform wearers
Rank badge of a sergeant of the telecommunications force on the epaulette of the jacket of the service suit for army uniform wearers
Rank badge of a senior ensign of the Army Aviation Troops on the shoulder flap of the jacket of the service suit for army uniform wearers
Rank badge of a sergeant major on the epaulette of the jacket of the service suit for air force uniform wearers
Rank badge of a sergeant major of the Army Air Defense Force on the epaulette of the jacket of the service suit for army uniform wearers
Rank badge and pull-over loop of an ensign of the pioneer troop on the epaulette of the jacket of the service suit for army uniform wearers
Rank badge of a sergeant of the artillery troops on the shoulder flap of the jacket of the service suit for army uniform wearers
Rank Sergeant Major Staff Sergeant Midshipman * Sergeant Major Sergeant Major Ensign * sergeant
abbreviation OStFw / OSF StFw / SF OFähnr / OFR HptFw / HF OFw / OF Fähnr / FR Fw / F
NATO rank code OR-9 OR-8 OR-7 OR-6
Grade A9Z A9 A8Z A7Z A7
* The ranks ensign and senior midshipman are only served by candidate officers .
Navy uniform wearer
Rank group NCOs with portepee
Sleeve badge
Rank badge of a senior staff officer (30 series of uses) on the lower sleeve of the jacket of the service suit for naval uniform wearers
Rank badge of a staff officer (40 series of uses) on the lower sleeve of the jacket of the service suit for naval uniform wearers
Rank badge of a senior ensign at sea (not a medical officer candidate) on the lower sleeve of the jacket of the service suit for naval uniform wearers
Rank badge of a chief boatman (50 series) on the lower sleeve of the jacket of the service suit for naval uniform wearers
Rank badge of a senior boatman (70 series of uses) on the lower sleeve of the jacket of the service suit for naval uniform wearers
Rank insignia of an ensign at sea (not a medical officer candidate) on the lower sleeve of the jacket of the service suit for naval uniform wearers
Rank badge of a boatswain (60 series of uses) on the lower sleeve of the jacket of the service suit for naval uniform wearers
Rank Chief of Staff Staff Captain Oberfähnrich zur See * Chief Boatswain Captain Ensign at sea * Boatswain
abbreviation OStBtsm / OSB StBtsm / SB OFähnr zS / OFRZS HptBtsm / HB OBtsm / OB Fähnr zS / FRZS Btsm / B
NATO rank code OR-9 OR-8 OR-7 OR-6
Grade A9Z A9 A8Z A7Z A7
* The ranks ensign in the sea and senior midshipman in the sea are only served by candidate officers .

Authority to command

Soldiers of the rank group NCOs with portepee can issue orders to soldiers of the rank groups of teams and NCOs without portepee on the basis of § 4 ("Superiors relationship based on the rank") of the Superiors Ordinance within the limits set there .

As a rule, non-commissioned officers with portepee are assigned to positions such as company sergeants , platoon , company troop , group or troop leaders or as specialist staff in staff and other posts that require special professional qualifications. Due to these prominent positions, the vast majority of NCOs with portepee can issue orders to all officially or professionally subordinate soldiers in the cases listed in the Superiors Ordinance.

Appointment and remuneration

The relevant legal basis for the appointment to one of the ranks of the rank group of NCOs with portepee is the Soldier Career Ordinance (SLV) and in addition the Central Service Regulations (ZDv) 20/7. Professional soldiers , temporary soldiers and reservists can be appointed to a corresponding rank . The prerequisite for appointment to one of the ranks of the rank group of NCOs with portepee is membership of one of the career paths of sergeants or the career group of officers . A direct recruitment with a rank of the rank group of NCOs with portepee is possible with appropriate suitability. Most of the sergeants with portepee previously served in the rank of sergeant major. In this case, promotion can usually take place one year after being appointed staff sergeant. In this case, before being promoted to sergeant-major, a non-commissioned officer examination must be passed, which consists of a general military and a military-technical part ( sergeant examination ).

NCOs with Portepee be dependent on the rank and service position by the Federal pay regulation (BBesO) with A7 to A9 mA ( with duty allowance ) remunerated .

Rank badge

The rank badge of the NCOs with portepee shows one or more angles , partly in the form of head angles , with the point upwards and a closed braid as a shoulder badge or, in the case of naval uniform wearers, as a sleeve badge on the lower sleeve .

Officer candidates in the rank of ensign and senior midshipman also wear a silver-colored cord made of woven metal as a pull-over loop on almost all epaulettes and sliding loops to differentiate them ; a peculiarity are some rank insignia for top cadets who are already the dress uniform of the officers so that the closed braid and the silver cord eliminates wear while service dress as a pull tab.

Ensigns to the sea of ​​most careers can be recognized by the fact that they (usually instead of a usage badge) wear a five-pointed star as a career badge; Medical officer candidates in the rank of ensign in the sea use different forms of the Aesculapian staff (without anchor ) as career badges . Like army and air force uniforms, senior ensigns at sea already wear the officers' uniforms , so instead of a head angle as with the chief boatman , all rank badges of the senior ensigns at sea show a narrow sleeve strip in the manner of the rank badges for naval officers , but with the career badges described for ensigns at sea .

Equivalent rank groups

NCOs with portepee include the NATO rank codes OR6 to OR9. There is no exact equivalent in other armed forces for the rank group of NCOs with portepee . Based on the NATO rank code, however, the group of senior non-commissioned officers (Sr. NCOs) of the US Army (ranks of sergeants from Sergeant First Class upwards) is comparable. The group of senior NCOs in the Swiss Army roughly corresponds to the German rank group.

Unofficial names

Army and air force uniforms of the rank group NCOs with portepee are unofficially referred to as sergeant ranks or sergeant for short ; Navy uniform wearers unofficially accordingly as boatmen , occasionally also as portepee sergeants (abbreviation: "PUOs") or boatmen . Sometimes the term sergeant ranks implicitly includes all boatmen. Whether the term sergeant instead of all sergeant ranks only means several soldiers in the rank of sergeant , is not always clear from the context . It is just as unclear at times whether the term boatswain does not only mean several soldiers in the rank of boatswain . Due to the unofficial nature of the designation, it is also unclear whether the ranks of the officer candidates from the rank group of NCOs with portepee ( ensign , Oberfähnrich or Fähnrich zur See and Oberfähnrich zur See ) also belong to the group of sergeants or boatmen are or only the ranks of the rank group NCOs with portepee, to which one can be appointed in one of the career paths of sergeants. These officer candidates are also sometimes grouped together as ensigns.

literature

Web links

Wiktionary: NCOs with portepee  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b Note: The Bundeswehr describes all soldiers who wear the uniform of the respective armed forces as army or air force or naval uniform wearers. The term also includes soldiers outside the three armed forces, for example in the armed forces base , cf. Training as reserve officer candidate in military service. Federal Office for Personnel Management of the Bundeswehr (BAPersBw) - The President., March 13, 2014, accessed on March 26, 2014 .
  2. ↑ The central service regulation A-1420/24 "Ranks and rank groups" replaces the sections B 185 of the central service regulation 14/5 "Soldiers Act", where the rank groups were previously defined. The text from B 185 ZDv 14/5 was adopted unchanged in ZDv A-1420/24. See 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. ↑ ZDv 20/7 on the basis of Section 44 of the Soldiers ' Careers Ordinance ( Ordinance on the Careers of Soldiers (Soldiers' Career Ordinance - SLV) . March 19, 2002, Section 44 ( gesetze-im-internet.de [accessed on March 25, 2014] revised) by announcement of August 19, 2011 I 1813. Last amended by Art. 2, Paragraph 5 G of April 8, 2013 I 730). )
  4. ↑ The silver-colored cord can be found as piping on the shoulder flap.
  5. ↑ So not only with the service suit

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h 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).
  2. ↑ 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).
  3. ↑ a b c Federal Ministry of Defense , BMVg P II 5 (Ed.): A-1420/24. Central service regulation. Ranks and rank groups . January 19, 2006 ( reservistenverband.de [PDF; accessed February 10, 2016]).
  4. ↑ a b c d Agreed English texts. STANAG 2116. NATO standardization agreement (STANAG). NATO codes for grades of military personnel . 5th edition. 1992 (English, rankmaven.tripod.com [accessed March 25, 2014]).
  5. ↑ a b c 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. ↑ a b c d Appendix I (to § 20, paragraph 2, sentence 1) Bundesbesoldungsgesetz orders of A and B . ( gesetze-im-internet.de [accessed on March 25, 2014] Federal Pay Regulations (BBesO) only apply to professional and temporary soldiers and are an annex to the Federal Pay Act (BBesG)).
  7. ↑ a b c d e 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 ( dmb-lv-westfalen.de [PDF; 3.5 MB ] Reprint October 2008 replaces first edition from July 1996). dmb-lv-westfalen.de ( 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
  8. ↑ a b c Ordinance on the Careers of Soldiers (Soldiers' Career Ordinance - SLV) . March 19, 2002 ( gesetze-im-internet.de [accessed on March 25, 2014] Newly drafted by notice of August 19, 2011 I 1813. Last amended by Art. 2 Paragraph 5 G of April 8, 2013 I 730).
  9. ↑ a b The Federal Minister of Defense (ed.): ZDv 14/5. Soldiers Act . DSK AV110100174, amendment status July 17, 2008. Bonn August 21, 1978, The Superiors Ordinance, p. A 12 1 (not to be confused with the Ordinance on the Regulation of Military Superiors (Superiors Ordinance - VorgV) ).
  10. ↑ Federal Minister of Defense (Ed.): Ordinance on the regulation of the military superior relationship (Superior Ordinance - VorgV) . June 4, 1956, § 4 ( gesetze-im-internet.de [accessed on March 25, 2014] Last amended by Art. 1 No. 2 V of October 7, 1981 I 1129).
  11. ↑ Federal Minister of Defense (Ed.): Ordinance on the regulation of the military superior relationship (Superior Ordinance - VorgV) . June 4, 1956 ( gesetze-im-internet.de [accessed on March 25, 2014] Last amended by Art. 1 No. 2 V of October 7, 1981 I 1129).
  12. ↑ Note also: Annex (to § 3). Allocation of the career paths of the soldiers to the career groups of the men and women, the NCOs and the officers
  13. ↑ The Federal Minister of Defense ; Personnel, Social and Central Affairs Department (Ed.): ZDv 20/7. Provisions for the transport and for the recruitment, acceptance and admission of soldiers . Bonn March 27, 2002, Art. 635 ( reservisten.bundeswehr.de ( memento of October 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; accessed on March 26, 2014] DSK AP210100187, reprint January 2008). ZDv 20/7. Regulations for the transport and for the recruitment, takeover and admission of soldiers ( memento of the original from October 26, 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.reservisten.bundeswehr.de
  14. ↑ cf. Marine press and information center : career as a boatman. In: website of the Navy . Federal Ministry of Defense , the head of the press and information staff , July 17, 2014, accessed on October 28, 2014 : "What's new about the boaters' career?"
  15. ↑ cf. Navy press and information center : career opportunities in the Navy. In: website of the Navy . Federal Ministry of Defense , the head of the press and information staff , April 1, 2014, accessed on October 28, 2014 : "The sergeant career in the Navy is the career of the boatmen."