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.