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.
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