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

Obersturmbannfüh rer Lieutenant Colonel 中佐

Sturmbannf・rer Major 少佐

Hauptsturmf・rer Captain 大尉

Obersturmf・rer First Lieutenant 中尉

Untersturm　f・rer Second Lieutenant 少尉

Sturmscharf・rer Sergeant Major 上級軍曹

Stabsscharf・rer Sergeant Major “

Hauptscharf・rer Master Sergeant 一等軍曹

Oberscharf・rer Senior Sergeant 軍曹

Scharf・rer Staff Sergeant 二等軍曹

最下位の下士官 Unterscharf・rer Corporal 伍長

Rottenf・rer Lance Corporal 上等兵

Sturmmann Private First Class 上等兵（一等兵）

Sch・ze 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.