SS Ranks

 

               Dateline: 08/31/98

               This is a listing of the SS ranks and their western

               equivalents.

 

                        SS Ranks Equivalents

                      Reichsführer          National Leader 全国指導者（元帥）

                      Oberstgruppenführer  Colonel General

                      Obergruppenführer    General            大将

                      Gruppenführer        Lieutenant General 中将

                      Brigadeführer         Major General      少将

                      Oberführer            Brigadier General  准将

                      Standartenführer      Colonel            大佐

                      Obersturmbannführer  Lieutenant Colonel 中佐

                      Sturmbannführer      Major              少佐

                      Hauptsturmführer     Captain            大尉

                      Obersturmführer      First Lieutenant    中尉

                      Untersturmführer     Second Lieutenant   少尉

                      Sturmscharführer     Sergeant Major      上級軍曹

                      Stabsscharführer      Sergeant Major        “

                      Hauptscharführer     Master Sergeant     一等軍曹

                      Oberscharführer       Senior Sergeant     軍曹

                      Scharführer           Staff Sergeant       二等軍曹

 最下位の下士官       Unterscharführer      Corporal            伍長

                      Rottenführer          Lance Corporal      上等兵

                      Sturmmann           Private First Class   上等兵（一等兵）

                      Schühze              Private              兵卒

                      SS-Mann              Private              兵卒

 

 

               Source: Handbook on German Armed Forces, Washington, DC:

               USGPO, 1944 as quoted in Abraham Edelheit and

               Hershel Edelheit, History of the Holocaust: A Handbook and

               Dictionary (Boulder: Westview Press, 1994) page 424.