Offiziersstellvertreter in Austria
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Rank insigniaAustrian Bundesheer
Introduction1915
Rank groupStabsunteroffiziere
Army / Air ForceOffiziersstellvertreter
Navyno equivalent
Lower:
Higher:		Oberstabswachtmeister
Vizeleutnant
NATO
equivalent		OR-9b[1]

Offiziersstellvertreter, short OStv (en: Officer deputy), is a rank of the higher non-commissioned officers rank group (also staff NCO group) in the Austrian Bundesheer and Imperial German Army.

Austria-Hungaria (until 1918)

In 1915 the position Offiziersstellvertreter was introduced to the Austro-Hungarian armed forces, at the time being not as rank, but as an assignment. It was the intention to equalise the high number of World War I losses. Promoted were staff NCOs (Stabsfeldwebel, Stabswachtmeister, Stabsfeuerwerker, and/or Stabsoberjäger) who did have the appropriate rank at least for one month. Together with the staff NCOs the Offiziersstellvertreter formed the rank group of higher NCOs (de: higher Unteroffiziere).

DesignationOffiziersstellvertreter OR8
Paroli
Rank description OStvOStv
BranchInfantryRifles
(English) (Officer deputy) (Officer deputy)
Junior Rank
Cadet
Austro-Hungarian
armed forces rank
Offiziersstellvertreter		 Senior Rank
Fähnrich

German Empire and Weimar Republic

The rank was created in the Imperial German Army in 1887.

See also

References

  1. ↑ The abbreviation "OR" stands for "Other Ranks / fr: sous-officiers et militaires du rang / ru:другие ранги, кроме офицероф"
  • Die Streitkräfte der Republik Österreich, 1918-1968, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Militärwissenschaftliches Institut, 1968


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