Modern German army officers wear collar badges on a rectangular red background with two pieces of cornflower embroidered with gold thread. The generals' class colors are all red.
Of-9 General (General): The general is mainly the leader at the highest level, the Bundeswehr Director General (Generalinspekteur der Bundeswehr).
The Director General of the Bundeswehr is a military member of the highest rank in the Bundeswehr and is appointed by the Confederation ** on the proposal of the Minister of Defence. The Director General of the Bundeswehr is responsible for the overall planning, development and command and control of the Bundeswehr. He is informed of the planning, preparation, command and control of Bundeswehr operations and follow-up.
The Director-General of the Bundeswehr is the Chairman of the Military Leadership Council (Milit Rische Führungsrat). The Military Leadership Council is the highest military body of the Bundeswehr and consists of the Bundeswehr Director-General, the Inspectorate of Armed Forces and Organisational Units (inspekteur). The Military Leadership Council deals with matters of importance to the unit as a whole, and the final decision is made by the Bundeswehr Director-General himself. The Military Leadership Council, the Armaments Council (Rüstungsrat) and the Action Committee (Einsatzrat) are the three major bodies on which the Bundeswehr Director-General relies to carry out his duties.
Director General of the Defence Forces, Carsten Broy.
Of-8 Lieutenant General (Generalleutnant): A lieutenant general holds senior positions in the Army, such as the Inspekteur des Heeres
The Army Inspector General is responsible for the combat readiness of this Army personnel and materiel and reports directly to the Secretary of Defense. The Army General Staff (Army High Command), the Army Command and its divisional units, Army offices and subordinate training and support facilities are all subordinate to the Army Director. The Army Inspectorate is a member of the Military Leadership Council. Both the Army Inspector General and the Deputy Inspector General are lieutenant generals.
Of-7 Major General: Major General serves primarily as a divisional commander, such as the 1st Panzer Division.
The 1st Panzer Division is a mechanized workhorse division of the Army. The division mainly has Leopard 2 main battle tanks, Mader and Puma infantry fighting vehicles, PZH2000 armored self-propelled howitzers and other ** equipment. The subordinate units are:
9th Armored Teaching Brigade.
21st Armored Brigade.
41st Armored Infantry Brigade.
43rd Mechanized Brigade.
325th Artillery Support Battalion.
610th Signal Battalion.
901st Heavy Engineer Battalion.
1st Combat Support Battalion.
of-6 Brigadier General (BrigadeGeneral): Brigadier General primarily serves as a brigade commander, such as the 1st Armored Division's 9th Armored Teaching Brigade.
Units under the jurisdiction of the 9th Armored Teaching Brigade:
Staff Company of the 9th Armored Teaching Brigade.
90th Armored Engineer Training Company.
90th Reconnaissance Training Company.
93rd Armored Training Battalion.
33rd Armored Training Battalion.
92nd Panzergrenadier Training Battalion.
325th Armored Artillery Training Battalion.
141st Logistics Battalion.
Officers, sergeants and soldiers, in addition to generals, wore double Roman pillar collar badges with a background color of the troops.
Of-5 Colonel (Oberst): 15 years of service.
Of-4 Lieutenant Colonel (oberstleutnant): 13 years of service. Mainly served as a battalion commander.
Of-3 Major: 9 years of service. Mainly served as a company commander.
Of-2 Senior Captain Stabshauptmann: Served for 15 years after being appointed second lieutenant. Senior Captain is a new rank in the Bundeswehr, which previously did not exist. Senior captains are reserved mainly for specialist officers, and because some specialist officers cannot be promoted to major, they are promoted to senior captains and then receive the major's salary.
Of-2 Captain (Hauptmann): Completed 5 years of service after being appointed as a second lieutenant5 years.
Of-1 Lieutenant (Oberleutnant): Completed 2 years of service after being appointed as a second lieutenant5 years. Mainly as a platoon commander, a company has three platoons, usually the first platoon leader is a lieutenant, and the second and third platoon leaders are sergeant major and above.
Of-1 Second Lieutenant (Leutnant): After 30 months of study, cadets can be promoted to second lieutenant after 6 months of military training, which means that it takes 3 years to become a second lieutenant.
Alternate officer cadets are selected to become Bundeswehr officers. There are two main ways to become an officer:1A minimum age of 17, a secondary school graduate, and a higher education or equivalent entry qualification can apply for admission to the two national defense universities in Hamburg and Munich, where there are 50 bachelor's and master's degree programs to choose from. 2. If you do not have the corresponding academic qualifications, you can serve as a sergeant, and then apply for expert service qualifications and then become an officer. To follow this path, it is necessary to serve for at least 15 years and submit a career evaluation report, which is evaluated by the Officers' Evaluation Center, positively evaluated by the Bundeswehr Personnel Management Office, and finally through the military selection course of the Army Officer School in Dresden.
Cadets who complete the corresponding courses will be awarded the corresponding sergeant rank, and there is a silver rope as a distinction, and the treatment corresponds to the corresponding sergeant rank. When a cadet is promoted to the rank of sergeant, he or she wears an officer's uniform with the sergeant's major badge on the officer's epaulettes.
OR-7 Sergeant Major Cadet (Oberf Hnrich): 30 months of military schooling.
OR-6 Sergeant Cadet (F Hnrich): 21 months of military schooling.
or-5 Corporal Cadet (Fahnenjunker): 12 months of military schooling.
Exempt military cadet: 6 months of study in a military school.
Private rank cadet students: 3 months of study in military school.
Senior Sergeant (Sergeant with Spike).
Obiki means to wear a sword spike. A spike sergeant, like an officer, can wear a spike on a sword, whereas a junior sergeant does not have a spike.
Obisui sergeants are usually sergeants with seniority and experience. During service, a sergeant with a spike can serve as a squad leader or platoon leader, training, educating and leading soldiers.
Soldiers who have completed vocational training or master's degree training in a relevant field of the Bundeswehr can work in the general technical sector, for example, as a sergeant of aircraft equipment, a material planner or a fire sergeant. Depending on their professional qualifications and work experience, they can be awarded a higher sergeant rank.
In the Geographic Information Department, Sergeant Obisui can work as a Geographic Information Meteorological Technician or Surveyor. In the marching band you can work as an orchestrator.
In the medical department, a sergeant with a spike can work as an emergency ambulance, paramedics, medical technician, or surgical paratechnic.
The normal length of service of a sergeant with a spike is 15 years. Depending on the possibility of the department, the period of service will be shortened or extended. Sergeant Obiki can become a professional soldier.
The rank of sergeant to sergeant major can be as squad leader (gruppenführer);The rank of sergeant major and above can serve as a platoon commander.
OR-9 Senior Sergeant Major First Class (oberstabsfeldwebel): Served as a sergeant with a spike for 18 years.
OR-8 Senior Sergeant Major 2nd Class (Stabsfeldwebel): Served as a stabsfeldwebel for 16 years.
Or-7 Sergeant Major (Hauptfeldwebel): 8 years of service. During World War II, Sergeant Major was the position of the chief of the company, mainly responsible for the administrative duties of the company, known as the mother of the company, and became a military rank in the Bundeswehr. The rank of sergeant major and above can be held in different branches of the military, such as the chief of the infantry company (kompaniefeldwebel), the chief of the artillery company (kompaniefeldwebel) and the chief of the flying squadron (staffelfeldwebel). The secretary of the company wears a yellow ornament on his right shoulder to identify himself.
OR-6 Sergeant (Oberfeldwebel): 5 years of service.
OR-6 Sergeant (Feldwebel): 3 years of service.
Junior Sergeant (Nonspike Sergeant).
Non-commissioned officers have a wide range of duties, and most of them work in a certain area of expertise, the so-called professional sergeants. The Bundeswehr divides professional sergeants into medical, military and general technical specialties.
The most important thing to become a professional sergeant is vocational training, to obtain a qualification corresponding to the future job position. General technical specializations include Electronic Engineering, Aeronautics** Analysis, Motor Vehicle Driving, Cooking, Personnel and Clerical Studies, etc. If a soldier has received the appropriate training, he can enlist as a corporal or senior corporal. The normal length of service for a sergeant is 12 years. Professional sergeants also become professional soldiers.
OR-5 Senior Corporal First Rank Corporal (Stabsunteroffizier): Corporal has served for 12 months.
OR-5 Corporal 2nd Rank (Unteroffizier): Completed 12 months of service and passed the Army Sergeant School course.
There are two main types of sergeant candidates in the Bundeswehr: junior sergeant candidates (unteroffizieranw rter) and senior sergeant candidates (feldwebelanw rter). The former mainly trains corporals, and the latter mainly trains sergeants.
Junior sergeant candidates will have an extra bar on their epaulettes;A 0 has been added to the bottom of the epaulettes of the senior sergeant candidates8 cm wide gold wire loop.
Junior non-commissioned candidates study and train in Army Sergeant Schools and Training Camps, and are promoted to Exempt in 3 months, Superior Exempt in 6 months, and full corporal after 12 months (as soon as 9 months).
Senior Sergeant Candidates study and train in Army Sergeant Schools and Training Camps, where they are promoted to Exempt in 3 months, Superior Exempt in 6 months, Corporal after 12 months, Senior Corporal in 24 months, and Sergeant in 36 months.
Senior Sergeant Alternate.
Junior Sergeant Candidate.
OR-4 Senior Private (Stabskorporal): After 10 years of total service, Private can be promoted to Senior Private after 12 months.
Senior Private and Private are new soldier ranks on September 30, 2021. The main reason for the creation of these two new ranks is that soldiers now have longer service periods, for example, in 2015, the average length of service of most soldiers was 8 years, and it is not uncommon to serve 15 years or more now. There are also changes in the tasks of the soldiers, who are now more complex and responsible than the previous short-term missions, so higher ranks are needed to promote the best soldiers.
Senior privates and privates are tied to their positions. When a vacancy is announced, qualified senior exempt officers may apply and then participate in the selection process. It is important to note that soldiers can only apply for senior private and private positions in their own unit, and cannot cross units.
OR-4 Korporal: After 7 years of total service, the senior exempt officer can be promoted to private after 12 months.
OR-4 Superior Senior Exempt (Oberstabsgefreiter): 48 months of total service, and can be promoted to Senior Senior Exempt after 12 months of senior immunity.
OR-4 Senior Exempt (Stabsgefreiter): 36 months of total service, and can be promoted to Senior Exempt after 12 months of senior immunity rank.
OR-3 Hauptgefreiter: Promoted to Senior Exempt after 12 months of service.
OR-3 Obergefreiter: Promoted to Superior Exempt after 6 months of service.
OR-2 Gefreiter: Army private can be promoted to exempt after completing recruit training (usually 3 months, depending on the unit of service). Immunity is a historical term that first appeared in the 16th century in the 16th century when German mercenary kings embraced servants, and those who proved to be reliable and experienced mercenaries were appointed as exempt servants (gefreyten knechten), placed in key positions on the battlefield, and enjoyed additional privileges such as exemption from guard duty. In the modern context, exempt soldier means veteran.
OR-1 Private (Soldat): Private is the junior rank of a Bundeswehr soldier. Private is a general term and has different names depending on the class, such as Rifleman (Schütze), Panzergrenadier (Panzergrenadier), Hunter (J Ger), Gunner (Kanonier), Radioman (Funker) and Engineer (Pionier).
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