Foreman

Foreman

In the Austro-Hungarian Army , Vormeister was a military rank in the group of men.

The foreman ( Hungarian főtüzér ) originally belonged only to the artillery and corresponded to the rank of private in the infantry and the patrol leader in the kuk Feldjäger or kuk Kaiserjäger , the kk Landesschützen and the cavalry. As a rank badge (distinction badge) he wore a single white celluloid star on the red stand-up collar with the tunic and on a red pad ( Paroli ) with the field blouse.

Since the personnel of the later independent machine gun departments belonged to the artillery, the corporals were also referred to as Vormeister here.

The foreman stood above the gunner and below the gun foreman (rifle foreman in the machine gun departments).

literature

• Rest-Ortner-Ilmig: The emperor's rock in World War I - uniforms and equipment of the Austro-Hungarian army from 1914 to 1918 . Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2002. ISBN 3-9501642-0-0 .