Obermaat
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shoulder board / cuff title / mounting loop | |
| Rank insignia | German NCO rank |
| Introduction | 1955 |
| Rank group | Non-commissioned officers |
| Navy | Obermaat |
| Army / Air Force | Stabsunteroffizier |
| NATO equivalent | OR-5 |
| Navy | Petty officer, second class |
| Army/Air Force | |
Obermaat is a military rank of the Bundeswehr and earlier other German speaking armed forces.
Bundeswehr
Oberbmaat (OMaat or in lists OMT) is a rank of the German Navy. It belongs to the particular rank group NCO's without portepee.
According to the salary class it is equivalent to the Stabsunteroffizier of Heer or Luftwaffe. It is grouped as OR5 in NATO, equivalent to Petty officer, second class, Sergeant, or Staff Sergeant in Anglophone armed forces.
In navy context NCOs of this rank were formally addressed as Herr/ Frau Obermaat also informally / short Obermaat. The sequence of ranks (top-down approach) in that particular group is as follows:
Unteroffizier ohne Portepee
- OR-5a: Obermaat / (Heer/ Luftwaffe) Stabsunteroffizier
- OR-5b: Seekadett / Fahnenjunker
- OR-5c: Maat / Unteroffizier
The abbreviation "OR" stands for "Other Ranks / fr: sous-officiers et militaires du rang / ru:другие ранги, кроме офицероф"!
| Preceded by junior Rank Maat |
 (German NCO rank)
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Succeeded by senior Rank Bootsmann |
See also
- Ranks of the German Bundeswehr
- Rank insignia of the German Bundeswehr
- Ranks and insignia of NATO navies enlisted