Stabswachtmeister

During United Nations missions and in NATO Partnership for Peace the rank Stabswachtmeister will be designated in English with Staff Sergeant (SSG) and is equivalent to NATO-Rang code OR-7.

With the foundation of the Austrian Bundesheer in March 1920 the «Stabswachtmeister» was introduced to all army branches of service.

However, according to the modern days NATO-Rang code system, it might have been comparable to NCO-rank OR6[1]/ 1st sergeant ranks in Anglophone armed forces.

Austro-Hungarian Army Stabswachtmeister was equivalent to: Then rank insignia was a gorget patch on the stand-up collar of the so-called Waffenrock (en: uniform jacket), and consisted of three white stars on 13 mm ragged imperial-yellow silk galloon, with 2mm broad black middle strap, 3mm above a 6mm braiding (since June 1914: silver galloon with silk stars).

The gorget patch and the stand-up collar showed the particular Waffenfarbe (en: corps colour).