Hauptmann






















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Hauptmann

(Heer / Luftwaffe)






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Rank insignia
German officer rank
Introduction19th century
Rank group
Commissioned officers
Army / Air Force
Hauptmann
Navy
Kapitänleutnant
NATO
equivalent
OF-2
Army
Captain
Navy
Captain lieutenant

Hauptmann is a German word usually translated as captain when it is used as an officer's rank in the German, Austrian and Swiss armies. While Haupt in contemporary German means 'main', it also has and originally had the meaning of 'head', i.e. Hauptmann literally translates to 'head-man', which is also the etymological root of captain (from Latin caput, 'head').
It equates to the rank of captain in the British and US Armies, and is rated OF-2 in NATO. (For the German maritime counterpart to captain, see Kapitän.)


More generally, it can be used to denote the head of any hierarchically structured group of people, often as a compound word. For example, a Feuerwehrhauptmann is the captain of a fire brigade, while Räuberhauptmann refers to the leader of a gang of robbers.


Official Austrian and German titles incorporating the word include Landeshauptmann, Bezirkshauptmann, Burghauptmann, and Berghauptmann.


In Saxony during the Weimar Republic, the titles of Kreishauptmann, and Amtshauptmann were held by senior civil servants.


Hauptmann (from Early Modern High German Heubtmann) is cognate with the Swedish hövitsman, which also has the root meaning 'head-man' or 'the man at the head', and is closely related to hövding, meaning 'chieftain'. Since medieval times, both titles have been used for state administrators rather than military personnel. Heubtmann may also be the origin of the title hetman, used in Central and Eastern Europe.





Rank insignia


On the shoulder straps (Heer, Luftwaffe) there are three silver pips (stars).






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junior Rank
Oberleutnant

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German Bundeswehr officer rank
Hauptmann
senior Rank
Major

Stabshauptmann


External links



  • Deutsches Wörterbuch, Hauptmann[permanent dead link]





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