Rank & Trade Insignia

Sewn on the right sleeve of his jacket or overcoat.

This chevron with lace and embroidered star on a dark green field, was inducted into the German army in 1921 and until 1942 designated the title – Stabsgefreiter (Staff Corporal). From 1942 to 1945 he designated the title – Obergefreiter (Obergefreiter) that is assigned to the soldiers who had seniority over 6 years.Staff positions corporal in the Wehrmacht was not. This title is usually given obergefrayteram having greater seniority (in peacetime, more than six years), but for whatever reason are not entitled to the title unterofitsir. Some historians, by analogy with an asterisk gefraytera old, and not finding in staffing regiments shtabsgefrayterskih posts mistakenly believe that the Wehrmacht was not shtabsgefrayter titles and two braid with an asterisk denote obergefraytera with great seniority. However, it is not. Rank shtabsgefrayter existed in the Wehrmacht. True met this title is not often because there was little reason to not assign an experienced obergefrayteru unterofitsirsky rank (illiteracy, politically unreliable). Sometimes the rank shtabsgefrayter lowered unterofitsirov who committed serious shortcomings in the service.

This chevron, with lace on a dark green field, was inducted into the German army in 1921 and was originally designated the title – “Corporal”. From 1936 to 1945 he designated the title – “Obergefreiter” that is assigned to the soldiers who had seniority of less than 6 years old.

This chevron with lace and embroidered star on a dark green field, was inducted into the German army in 1936 and designated the title – “Obergefreiter” that is assigned to the soldiers who had seniority over 6 let.V 1942 abolished the chevron.

This chevron embroidered star on a dark green field, was inducted into the German army in 1936 and designated the title – “obershuttse” (Senior arrows) .Zvanie lasted until 1945.For the first time the title obershuttse were used in the army of Bavaria in the late 19th century. After World War I the title appeared in the Reichswehr, and in 1920 became an intermediate rank between the ranks of soldiers and a corporal. This title is awarded to servicemen with considerable military experience and skills, but that it was still too early to give the rank of Corporal.

This chevron, with a star on the field of color “feldgrau” in the German army came to the middle of 1944, when the material resources of the country more and more exhausted. Often, you can find patches similar to the color of his uniform. This was done only because udishevleniya production.