Oberst later commented that " It was a way to make fun of ourselves because the record is such a downer.

Kasher subsequently went on to front the band Cursive, and Oberst later became famous as the core member of the indie folk collective Bright Eyes, and later the punk band Desaparecidos.

Furthermore, Oberst later sang backup on the song " Staying Alive ," from Cursive's 2003 effort The Ugly Organ.

He later became the Director of the Airforce Academy of the German Democratic Republic in the rank of an Oberst (" Colonel "), following the reunion of Germany he refused to be transferred to the ( West ) German Bundeswehr.

* Oberst Hans Traut April 1942 – April 1942

* Oberst Hans Tröger ( 30 November 1942-26 January 1943 )

* Oberst Hans Roschmann, ( 6 February 1945-9 February 1945 )

* Oberst Dr. Hans Boelsen 5 March 1943-20 March 1943

* Oberst Hans Kreppel ( 1 January 1945 – 31 January 1945 )

* Oberst Hans Christern ( 26 March 1945 – 8 May 1945 )

* Ager, Waldemar, Colonel Heg and His Boys: A Norwegian Regiment in the American Civil War ( translated by Della Kittleson Catuna and Clarence A. Clausen Oberst Heg og Hans Gutter.

Posing as a medic returning to his unit, he is commandeered to treat Oberst von Ecker ( O. E.

Hasse as Oberst ( Colonel ) von Ecker

To further complicate the clumsy command structure, the aggressive Oberst ( Colonel ) Franz von Weyrother was named John's chief-of-staff.

After consulting Oberst Nicolaus von Below, Hitler's Luftwaffe adjutant, Hartmann was allowed to keep his side arm and accepted the Diamonds.

* Jaspar von Oertzen-Oberst Kerst von Quirnstein / Oberst Albrecht Ritter Mertz von Dürnstein

Prussian cuirassiers under Oberst von Seydlitz ( promoted to major-general on that day ) finally showed up.

On the same day, Haeften, along with Stauffenberg and fellow conspirators General Friedrich Olbricht and Oberst Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim, was arrested and condemned to death by General Friedrich Fromm.

* Summary of Oberst Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck's extraordinary military campaigns against the allies

* July 20 Plot – failed attempt on 20 July 1944 to assassinate Hitler and overthrow the Nazi regime, by Army officers led by Oberst i. G. Claus von Stauffenberg and Generaloberst Ludwig Beck ; see Operation Valkyrie.

* Unternehmen Walküre " Operation Valkyrie "-Originally a Replacement Army emergency plan for maintaining order in the event of an internal revolt, it was quietly altered by a group officers led by Generaloberst Ludwig Beck, General d. I. Friedrich Olbricht and Oberst i. G. Claus von Stauffenberg into a plan to overthrow the Nazi regime following the assassination of Adolf Hitler.

In 1806 Frederick Louis, now a general of infantry, was appointed to command the left wing of the Prussian forces opposing Napoleon, having under him Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia ; but, feeling that his career had been that of a prince and not that of a professional soldier, he allowed his quartermaster-general, the incompetent Oberst ( Colonel ) Christian Karl August Ludwig von Massenbach to influence him unduly.

In an unusual move, Hitler kept it in the Crimea, but did not put the corps under the command of Generaloberst Alexander Löhr ’ s Luftflotte 4 ( Air Fleet 4 ), which already contained General der Flieger Kurt Pflugbeil's Fliegerkorps VI ( 6th Air Corps ) and Oberst Wolfgang von Wild ’ s Fliegerführer Süd ( Flying Command South ), a small anti-shipping command based in the Crimea.

Colonel ( Oberst ) Theodor von Dufving was Weidling's Chief-of-Staff, and Colonel ( Oberst ) Hans-Oscar Wöhlermann was his Artillery Officer during the time that Weidling commanded the LVI Tank Corps.

His exposure to German military and civilian aristocracy doubtless supplied much of the inspiration for such Griffin creations as Oberst Graf von Greiffenberg, who appears in several of the Brotherhood of War novels.

* Karl-August Freiherr von Bülow ( 1904 – 1986 ), highly decorated Oberst in the Wehrmacht during World War II

* Oberst Friedrich von Hake ( 18 May 1944 – 25 May 1944 )

* Oberst Joachim von Kronhelm ( 26 January 1943-Disbanded )

* Oberst Eberhard von Nostitz ( 1 September 1944-4 September 1944 )

* Oberst Heinz Karl von Rinkleff-October 1942 to 2 Feb 1943 ( transferred to Russian front after the surrender at Stalingrad )

* Oberst Horst von Usedom, 12 April 1945

* Oberst Friedrich von Scholl, awarded the 3rd Class with Crown and Swords, 1895

* Oberst ( future Generalleutnant ) Constantin Wilhelm Albert von Müller, awarded the 3rd Class with Crown and Swords for actions in Camerooon, 1905

* 1980 – Conor Oberst, American singer and songwriter ( Bright Eyes )

* Oberst – 1 October 1931

* Gayle Oberst – Mayor ( term expires in 2012 )

* Oberst ( Colonel – the commandant of the Guard )

A founding member of Commander Venus – which disbanded in 1997 – guitarist / vocalist Conor Oberst turned to focus on his new project, Bright Eyes.

* Conor Oberst – vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass guitar

* Conor Oberst – Guitar, Vocals, Sampling, Keyboards, Bass, Lyrics

* Eugene Oberst ( 1901 – 1991 ), American athlete

* Maximilian Oberst ( 1849 – 1925 ), a German physician and surgeon

* Conor Oberst – musician

* Rejoined the Army with rank of Oberst – 28 October 1933

The original LISTSERV software, the BITNIC LISTSERV ( 1984 – 1986 ), allowed mailing lists to be implemented on IBM VM mainframes and was developed by Ira Fuchs, Daniel Oberst, and Ricky Hernandez in 1984.

* Oberst – 1 April 1928

* Oberst – 1 February 1930

* Oberst Heinz Heigl, February 1944 – November 1944

* Oberst – Colonel, literally " highest "

* Advanced HQ / 3rd Mountain Division – Generalleutnant Eduard Dietl, 139th Mountain Regiment / 3rd Mountain Division – Oberst Windisch, coastal artillery battery ( crew only ), Naval signals section, Army signals platoon, I Bn / 32nd LW Flak Regiment ( personnel only )

* 138th Mountain Regiment / 3rd Mountain Division – Oberst Weiss, minus one company on the Lutzow, diverted to Oslo,

# SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. Humbert Achamer-Pifrader ( 10 September 1942 – 4 September 1943 )

# SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. Wilhelm Fuchs ( 6 May – 10 October 1944 )

# SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Erich Ehrlinger ( June – November 1941 )

# SS-Oberführer und Oberst der Polizei Dr. Wilhelm Fuchs ( 15 September 1943 – 27 May 1944 )