Stabsbootsmann (StBtsm or SB) is the second highest Non-commissioned officer (NCO) rank in the German Navy.

It is grouped as OR8 in NATO, equivalent to First Sergeant, Master Sergeant, or Senior Chief Petty Officer in the US Armed forces, and to Warrant Officer Class 2 in the British Army and Royal Navy.

In navy context NCOs of this rank were formally addressed as Herr/ Frau Stabsbootsmann also informally / short Staber.

Grades Stabsfeldwebel and Stabswachmeister have been used in the GDR National People's Army until 1990 as well.

The sequence of ranks (top-down approach) in that particular group is as follows: Unteroffiziere mit Portepee