The term also finds usage with the Austrian Bundespolizei (federal police force) and Justizwache (prison guards corps).

These two organizations are civilian in nature, but their ranks are nonetheless structured in a military fashion.

Typically, suffixes can be applied to the word Oberstleutnant to specify the individual type of officer.

[9] The Oberstleutnant's shoulder straps in Army and Air Force are marked by two vertically aligned stars above oak leaves.

The Federal Border Guard (Bundesgrenzschutz) used the rank Oberstleutnant until 1976, after which it was replaced by the terms Polizeioberrat and Polizeidirektor as part of the government's effort to transform West Germany's federal border guard agency into a less militarized structure.

[10] The Wehrmacht (1935-1945) of Nazi Germany used the rank of Oberstleutnant for Army and Air Force, much in the same style the Bundeswehr does.