Translated as “ senior assault ( or storm ) unit leader ”, Obersturmbannführer was junior to Standartenführer and was the equivalent to Oberstleutnant ( lieutenant colonel ) in the German Army.

Obersturmbannführer was a paramilitary Nazi Party rank used by both the SA and the SS.

The insignia for Obersturmbannführer was four silver pips and a stripe, centered on the left collar of an SS / SA uniform.

He was a member of the NSDAP and member of the SA ( SA Obersturmbannführer ).

Obersturmbannführer Ludwig Spindler — commander of the 9th SS Armoured Artillery Regiment — quickly organised a small battlegroup ( Kampfgruppe Spindler was initially only 120 men but would incorporate 16 separate units over the course of the battle ).

During World War II, the SS maintained an equivalent rank known as Obersturmbannführer.

This unit, the 8th SS Volunteer Sturmbrigade France was led by a former Foreign Legionnaire, Obersturmbannführer Paul Marie Gamory-Dubourdeau.

The first unit to assemble in Kirkenes, was the SS Battalion Reitz, named after their commander Obersturmbannführer Wilhelm Reitz.

The SS 9th " Totenkopf " Regiment, led by Obersturmbannführer Ernst Deutsch soon followed.

The German police attaché and commander of the Security Police in Rome, SS Obersturmbannführer Herbert Kappler was on the scene soon afterwards to supervise the investigation.

Late in the month, Hubert Meyer was replaced by Obersturmbannführer Hugo Kraas, and the division was attached to Oberstgruppenführer Sepp Dietrich's 6th SS Panzer Army, which was forming up for Operation Wacht am Rhein ( the Second Battle of the Ardennes, popularly known as the Battle of the Bulge ), a large-scale offensive to recapture Antwerp, halt the Allied advance, and split the Anglo-American alliance.

* 25th SS Panzergrenadier Regiment Hitlerjugend, Standartenführer Kurt Meyer ( until 14 June 1944 ), Obersturmbannführer Karl-Heinz Milius ( from 14 June 1944 )

* 12th SS Panzer Regiment, Obersturmbannführer Max Wünsche

General Skarr's appearance is based on that of SS Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny.

* SS Obersturmbannführer 20 April 2035

The report documented that Peter had served as Obersturmbannführer in an SS unit involved in mass murder.

He was given the rank of Obersturmbannführer ( Lieutenant Colonel ) and received the title of Oberregierungsrat.

Amongst the more notorious holders of the rank of Obersturmbannführer were Rudolf Höss, Adolf Eichmann, Herbert Kappler and Joachim Peiper.

During Eichmann's trial for war crimes in 1962, chief prosecutor Gideon Hausner drew attention to the significance and responsibility of Eichmann's Obersturmbannführer rank when, in response to Eichmann's claim that he was merely a clerk obeying orders, Hausner asked him, “ Were you an Obersturmbannführer or an office girl ?”

In Eichmann in Jerusalem, however, Hannah Arendt disputes the notion that Obersturmbannführer was a rank of significance, pointing out that Eichmann spent the war " dreaming " about promotion to Standartenführer.

Arendt also points out that "... people like Eichmann, who had risen from the ranks, were never permitted to advance beyond a lieutenant colonel the rank of Obersturmbannführer except at the front.

; Insignia of rank of Obersturmbannführer of the Waffen-SS:

The rank rated below Standartenführer until 1932, when Sturmbannführer became subordinate to the new rank of Obersturmbannführer.

The first commandant of the castle ( Burghauptmann von Wewelsburg ), from August 1934, was Obersturmbannführer ( Lieutenant Colonel ) Erich Schupping.

Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss was overall commandant of the Auschwitz complex from May 1940 – November 1943 ; Obersturmbannführer Arthur Liebehenschel from November 1943 – May 1944 ; and Sturmbannführer Richard Baer from May 1944 – January 1945.

* Dr. Heinrich Hagel ( physician ): Obersturmbannführer

In 1942, Lange became a Obersturmbannführer ( Lt.

Under the command of Obersturmbannführer Bernhard Frank, they patrolled an extensive cordoned security zone that encompassed the nearby homes of the other Nazi leaders.

The last regular commander of the KZ, Obersturmbannführer Eduard Weiter, had fled on 26 April.

He probably followed Obersturmbannführer Martin Gottfried Weiss, who had led the camp from September 1942 until November 1943.

Eichmann was promoted to Obersturmbannführer in 1940 and was listed as such in the minutes of the Wannsee Conference that began the Endlösung.

Obersturmbannführer, Hubert Meyer was placed in command of the division.

Collar tabs below the rank of Sturmführer were edged in black-and-white twist cord ; those of Sturm and Sturmbann leaders used black-and-silver while those of senior leaders were edged in solid silver cord.

The " title " of commodore continues to be used in the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard for those senior captains in command of organizations consisting of groups of ships or submarines organized into squadrons ; air wings or air groups of multiple aviation squadrons other than carrier air wings ( the latter whose commanders still use the title " CAG "); explosive ordnance disposal ( EOD ), mine warfare and special warfare ( SEAL ) groups ; and construction battalion ( SeaBee ) regiments.

A captain from this company found himself senior officer, and in charge of the badly out of shape 3rd battalion.

Only one WO1 / CWO holds the appointment of RSM in a regiment or battalion, making him the senior warrant officer ; in a unit with more than one WO1, the RSM is considered to be " first amongst equals ".

Like most Commonwealth forces, the RSM in the Australian Army is the senior warrant officer of the regiment or battalion, normally a Warrant Officer Class 1 ( WO1 ).

Statements by two eyewitnesses and a senior German general alleged that on 7 February 1942, Filipović accompanied elements of his battalion in an operation aimed at wiping out Serbs in the settlement of Drakulić, on the northern outskirts of Banja Luka, and in two neighbouring villages, Motike and Šargovac.

On the night of 30 September 1965 six senior army generals were kidnapped and executed in Jakarta by a battalion of soldiers from the Presidential Guard.

The full title of sergeant major fell out of use until the latter part of the 18th century, when it began to be applied to the senior non-commissioned officer of an infantry battalion or cavalry regiment.

There are normally two grades of sergeant major, with the first grade being the senior soldier of a company, battery or squadron and the second, higher grade being the senior soldier of a battalion or regiment.

The senior cadet of the Royal Military College of Canada was a battalion sergeant major from 1878 – 1923 and from 1934-42.

The first British use of the term was around 1680 and was applied to the senior sergeant in the colonel's company of an infantry regiment, but it wasn't formalised until 1797, when the sergeant major was added to the battalion or regimental staff.

In addition to the midshipmen rooms, Bancroft Hall houses offices for the Commandant of Midshipmen, six battalion officers, six battalion chaplains, thirty company officers and their senior enlisted leaders, a barbershop, bank, travel office, a small restaurant known as " Steerage ," textbook store, general store (" The Midshipmen Store "), laundromat, uniform store, cobbler shop, the USNA Band, the USNA branch of the United States Postal Service, a gymnasium, spaces for extracurricular activities, and full medical & dental clinics as well as small optometry and orthopedics clinics.

During his senior year of college, at the outset of the American Civil War, Holmes enlisted in the fourth battalion, Massachusetts militia, and then received a commission as first lieutenant in the Twentieth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

Captain Harlan Major — senior captain present with the battalion — took command.

The RQMS is the senior assistant to the Quartermaster of a regiment or battalion and also usually functions as the deputy Regimental Sergeant Major.

* Infantry Operations Chief Course is designed to train senior enlisted Marines in the knowledge and skills required to perform the duties of an Infantry Operations Chief in an infantry battalion.

He was posted to the 9th Battalion of the Gordons, a New Army battalion in 15th ( Scottish ) Division, where he was appointed as the sergeant piper ( or pipe major ), the battalion's senior piper.

Rising from battalion commander to more senior roles, he trained the newly activated 36th and 99th Infantry Divisions from 1941 to 1944, then went to Europe in November 1944 as second in command of the newly formed 63rd Infantry Division.

Rather than raising new infantry regiments, the senior regiments of foot were each ordered to raise a second battalion, with the existing regiment being redesignated as the 1st Battalion.

The senior handler carries the battalion rank of " Ram Major " whilst the other has that of " Ram Orderly ".

Those holding the Waffen-SS rank of Hauptscharführer were typically also granted the title of Stabsscharführer, which was an appointment held by the senior SS non-commissioned officer of a company, battalion, or regiment.

Stabsscharführer was not an actual SS rank, but rather a positional title held by the senior SS-NCO of a company, battalion, or regiment.

The most senior battalion of the 1st Punjab Regiment was raised in 1759 as the 3rd Battalion of Coast Sepoys, and is the senior most surviving infantry battalion of the British Indian Army.