PANZER OBERGEFREITER / STABSGEFREITER’S RANK CHEVRON (Шеврон штабс-ефрейтора танковых войск (Stabsgefreiter)) M4-128-Z

This chevron with lace and embroidered star on a dark green field, was inducted into the German army in 1921 and until 1942 designated the title – Stabsgefreiter (Staff Corporal). From 1942 to 1945 he designated the title – Obergefreiter (Obergefreiter) that is assigned to the soldiers who had seniority over 6 years.Staff positions corporal in the Wehrmacht was not. This title is usually given obergefrayteram having greater seniority (in peacetime, more than six years), but for whatever reason are not entitled to the title unterofitsir. Some historians, by analogy with an asterisk gefraytera old, and not finding in staffing regiments shtabsgefrayterskih posts mistakenly believe that the Wehrmacht was not shtabsgefrayter titles and two braid with an asterisk denote obergefraytera with great seniority. However, it is not. Rank shtabsgefrayter existed in the Wehrmacht. True met this title is not often because there was little reason to not assign an experienced obergefrayteru unterofitsirsky rank (illiteracy, politically unreliable). Sometimes the rank shtabsgefrayter lowered unterofitsirov who committed serious shortcomings in the service.