Oberscharfhrer

Oberscharfhrer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that existed between the years of 1932 and 1945. Translated as Senior Squad Leader, Oberscharfhrer was first used as a rank of the Sturmabteilung (SA) and was created due to an expansion of the enlisted positions required by growing SA membership in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The SA rank of Oberscharfhrer was senior to Scharfhrer and junior to the rank of Truppfhrer. Since early ranks of the Schutzstaffel (SS) were identicial to the ranks of SA, Oberscharfhrer was created as an SS rank at the same time the position was created within the SA. Initially, the rank of SS-Oberscharfhrer was equal to its SA counterpart; however, this changed in 1934 following the Night of the Long Knives. At that time, the SS rank system was reorganized and several new ranks established with older SA titles discontinued. The rank of SS-Oberscharfhrer was therefore bumped up and became equal to an SA-Truppfhrer. The insignia for the SS rank was changed, as well, becoming two silver collar pips in constrast to the SA insignia for Oberscharfhrer which was a single collar pip with silver stripe. Within the SA, an Oberscharfhrer was typically a senior squad leader, answering to a platoon non-commissioned officer. The responsibilites varied across a wider range in the SS, in particular between an Oberscharfhrer in the Allgemeine-SS (General SS) and one holding the same position in the Waffen-SS (Armed SS). After 1938, when the SS adopted field grey uniforms as the standard duty attire, SS- Oberscharfhrers displayed the shoulder insignia of a Wehrmacht Feldwebel. The rank of SS-Oberscharfhrer was junior to SS-Hauptscharfhrer.
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Scharfhrer
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Oberscharfhrer
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Hauptscharfhrer
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Scharfhrer
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Oberscharfhrer
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Truppfhrer

 

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