Offiziersstellvertreter

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.

Offiziersstellvertreter in Austria
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Rank insignia Austrian Bundesheer
Introduction 1915
Rank group Stabsunteroffiziere
Army / Air Force Offiziersstellvertreter
Navy no equivalent
Lower:
Higher:
Oberstabswachtmeister
Vizeleutnant
NATO
equivalent
OR-9b[1]

Austria-Hungaria (until 1918)

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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).

Designation Offiziersstellvertreter OR8
Paroli    
Rank description OStv OStv
Branch Infantry Rifles
(English) (Officer deputy) (Officer deputy)
Junior Rank
Cadet
 
Austro-Hungarian
armed forces rank

Offiziersstellvertreter
Senior Rank
Fähnrich

German Empire and Weimar Republic

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

See also

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References

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  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