Offiziersstellvertreter

Offiziersstellvertreter, short OStv (en: Officer deputy), is a rank of the higher non-commissioned officers rank group (also staff NCO group) in the Austrian Bundesheer and Imperial German Army.

Offiziersstellvertreter in Austria
Rank insignia	Austrian Bundesheer
Introduction	1915
Rank group	Stabsunteroffiziere
Army / Air Force	Offiziersstellvertreter
Navy	no equivalent
Lower: Higher:	Oberstabswachtmeister
	Vizeleutnant
NATO equivalent	OR-9b[1]

Austria-Hungaria (until 1918)

In 1915 the position Offiziersstellvertreter was introduced to the Austro-Hungarian armed forces, at the time being not as rank, but as an assignment. It was the intention to equalise the high number of World War I losses. Promoted were staff NCOs (Stabsfeldwebel, Stabswachtmeister, Stabsfeuerwerker, and/or Stabsoberjäger) who did have the appropriate rank at least for one month. Together with the staff NCOs the Offiziersstellvertreter formed the rank group of higher NCOs (de: higher Unteroffiziere).

Designation	Offiziersstellvertreter OR8
Paroli
Rank description	OStv	OStv
Branch	Infantry	Rifles
(English)	(Officer deputy)	(Officer deputy)

Junior Rank Cadet

Austro-Hungarian armed forces rank Offiziersstellvertreter

Senior Rank Fähnrich

German Empire and Weimar Republic

The rank was created in the Imperial German Army in 1887.

See also

• Ranks of the Austrian Bundesheer
• Rank insignias of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces