Offiziersstellvertreter

Offiziersstellvertereter, short OStv (en: Officer deputy), is a rank of the higher non-commissioned officers rank group (also staff NCO group) in the Austrian Bundesheer and Imperial German Army.

See also

Offiziersstellvertreter in Austria
Rank insignia	Austrian Bundesheer
Introduction	1915
Rank group	Stabsunteroffiziere
Army / Air Force	Offiziersstellvereter
Navy	no equivalent
Lower: Higher:	Oberstabswachtmeister
	Vizeleutnant
NATO equivalent	OR-9b[1]

Ranks of the Austrian Bundesheer

Austria-Hungaria (until 1918)

In 1915 the position Offiziersstellvertreter was introduced to the Austro-Hungarian armed forces, at the time being not as rank, but as an assignment. It was the intention to equalise the high number of World War I losses. Promoted were staff NCOs (Stabsfeldwebel, Stabswachtmeister, Stabsfeuerwerker, and/or Stabsoberjäger) who did have the appropriate rank at least for one month. Together with the staff NCOs the Offiziersstellvertreter formed the rank group of higher NCOs (de: higher Unteroffiziere).

See also

Rank insignias of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces

Designation	Offiziersstellvertreter OR8
Paroli
Rank description	OStv	OStv
Branch	Infantry	Rifles
(English)	(Officer deputy)	(Officer deputy)

Junior Rank Cadet

Austro-Hungarian armed forces rank Offiziersstellvertreter

Senior Rank Fähnrich

German Empire and the Weimar Republic

The rank was created in the Imperial German Army in 1887.

References

1. The abbreviation "OR" stands for "Other Ranks / fr: sous-officiers et militaires du rang / ru:другие ранги, кроме офицероф"

• Die Streitkräfte der Republik Österreich, 1918-1968, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum, Militärwissenschaftliches Institut, 1968