Rottenführer
Sign in to savethumb|150px|An SS-Rottenführer serving at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. Rottenführer (, ) was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was first created in the year 1932. The rank of Rottenführer was used by several Nazi paramilitary groups, among them the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Schutzstaffel (SS) and was senior to the paramilitary rank of Sturmmann.
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- Military rank.name
- Rottenführer
- Military rank.image
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- Military rank.caption
- SS gorget patches
- Military rank.caption2
- Waffen-SS Shoulder and sleeve insignia
- Military rank.service branch
- Hitler Youth National Socialist Motor Corps National Socialist Flyers Corps Schutzstaffel Sturmabteilung
- Military rank.abbreviation
- Rottenf
- Military rank.formation
- 1932
- Military rank.abolished
- 1945
- Military rank.higher rank
- Scharführer (SA)Unterscharführer (SS)
- Military rank.lower rank
- Sturmmann
- Military rank.equivalents
- Obergefreiter
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- SS-Rottenführer
- short name
- Rottenf
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thumb|150px|An SS-Rottenführer serving at the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp. Rottenführer (, ) was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was first created in the year 1932. The rank of Rottenführer was used by several Nazi paramilitary groups, among them the Sturmabteilung (SA), the Schutzstaffel (SS) and was senior to the paramilitary rank of Sturmmann.
The insignia for Rottenführer consisted of two double silver stripes on a bare collar patch. On field grey SS uniforms, the sleeve chevrons of an Obergefreiter (senior lance-corporal) were also worn.