Bootsmann

Bootsmann


shoulder board / cuff title / mounting loop

Rank insignia

German NCO rank

Introduction

1955

Rank group

Non-commissioned officers

Navy

Bootsmann

Army / Air Force

Feldwebel

NATO
equivalent

OR-6

Navy

Petty Officer First Class
Petty Officer

The German term Bootsmann translates to Boatswain, i.e. the senior crewman of the deck department.

In a military context, Bootsmann (Btsm or B) is the lowest Portepeeunteroffizier (NCO with portepeé) rank in the German Navy. It belongs to the particular rank group Senior NCOs with port épée. It is grouped as OR6 in NATO, equivalent to Petty Officer First Class in the US Navy, and to Petty Officer in the British Royal Navy.

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

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

OR-9: Oberstabsbootsmann / Oberstabsfeldwebel
OR-8: Stabsbootsmann / Stabsfeldwebel
OR-7: Hauptbootsmann / Hauptfeldwebel
OR-6a: Oberbootsmann / Oberfeldwebel
OR-6b: Bootsmann / Feldwebel

The abbreviation "OR" stands for "Other Ranks / fr: sous-officiers et militaires du rang / ru:другие ранги, кроме офицеров"!

junior Rank
Obermaat

(German NCO rank)
Bootsmann

senior Rank
Oberbootsmann

See also

Equivalent in other NATO countries[]

– Maître
– Petty Officer 2nd Class
– Narednik
– no equivalent
– Maître
– Κελευστής Kelefstis
– no equivalent
– secondo capo
– Sergeant (Navy)
– no equivalent
– Starszy bosman
– Segundo-sargento
– Sargento
– RN: Petty Officer; RM: Sergeant
– USN: Petty Officer First Class; USMC: Staff Sergeant

Other countries[]

These names were adopted for the Russian Navy as боцман and боцманмат by Peter the Great, among many other Prussian and Holland military ranks; they were initially treated as positions rather than ranks.

References[]

Schult, J. Segler-Lexikon. (in German). p. 61.
"Oekonomische Encyklopädie von J. G. Krünitz (1773 bis 1858)" (in German). University of Trier.^{[permanent dead link]}

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