Stabsscharführer

SS-Stabsscharführer (short: Stascha; address: Stabsscharführer ; ) was not a rank, but a position title or appointment, mainly used in the Waffen-SS, equivalent to the Hauptfeldwebel of the Wehrmacht (Heer and Luftwaffe) between the years of 1938 to 1945.

Usually it was the senior NCO ("senior squad leader") of his company-sized SS subunit. His duties were largely administrative and he was not expected to accompany his unit into combat. Those holding the function of SS-Stabsscharführer had to be addressed Stabsscharführer regardless of the actual rank title, e.g. Sturmscharführer, Hauptscharführer, or infrequent Oberscharfüher. The position of SS-Stabsscharführer was unique to the Waffen-SS or SS command of concentration camps, and was not used by branches of the Allgemeine-SS (general SS).