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Kriegsmarine collar Bootsmannmaat.svg
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Rank insignia
German NCO rank |-----
Used
1933 – 1945 |-----
Rank group
Non-commissioned officers |-----
Navy
Bootsmannsamaat |-----
Army / Air Force
Unteroffizier |-----
NATOequivalent
OR-5 |-----
Army
Sergeant |-----
Air Force
Staff Sergeant |-----
Navy
- Sergeant
- Petty Officer Second Class
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Bootsmannsmaat, short BtsmMaat/BMT ( en Boatswain`s mate), was in the Austro-Hungarian Navy (1786-1918) so-called enlisted rang (OR4) and in the Imperial German Navy a non-commissioned officer (NCO) OR5-rank. The Bootsmannsmaat is equivalent to the Unteroffizier / Unterfeldwebel of the German Bundeswehr. They belong to the rank group “NCOs without portepee”.
Beside Austria and Russia the German Empire introduced the Bootsmannsmaat (in connection with the rank Maat and the assignment – leader of a subunit) as lowest grade of the rank grop “NCOs without portepee of the Imperial German Navy. In the Weimarer Republik and the Kriegsmarine of the Third Reich the rank was retained.
The Bootsmannsmaat was equivalent to the Unteroffizier in Heer und Luftwaffe.
Regarding the particular career or assignment the sequence of ranks (both of them OR5 / second mates) and the grade description was established as follows:
- for Maate (en: mates) – Bootsmannsmaat (en: boatswain`s mate), Feuerwerksmaat (en: firework`s mate), Maschinistenmaat (en: engineman`s mate), or Steuermannsmaat (en: steersman`s mate)
- for Obermaate (en: senior mates) – Oberbootsmannsmaat (en: senior boatswain`s mate), Oberfeuerwerksmaat (en: senior firework`s mate), Obermaschinistenmaat (en: senior enginemen`s mate), or Obersteuermannsmaat (en: senior steersman`s mate)