Offiziersstellvertreter

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

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

See also

⇒ Article: Ranks of the Austrian Bundesheer

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 intension 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).

See also

⇒ Article: Rank insignias of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces

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

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