Harman Patil (Editor)

Truppführer (modern)

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Truppführer (modern)

Truppführer (English: unit leader, troop leader) is the German term for the position of a unit/troop leader.

Contents

Relief organization and disaster control service

In relief organizations, disaster control services, search and rescue teams, or technical assistance organizations, the Truppführer leads a small team of three to five individuals, usually contractors. The Truppführer is normally managed by a Gruppenführer, and acts as deputy or assistant Gruppenführer. At least two Trupps build a Gruppe (en: group).

Fire brigade

In German fire-brigades, the Truppführer leads a team of up to two fireman. The proper name Feuerwehrtrupp (en: fire-brigade team) is the designation to the smallest firefighter sub-unit. The number of individuals per Feuerwehrtrupp may vary.

A fire-brigade Truppführer may also act as leader of a self-contained Feuerwehrtrupp, handling special missions and can proceed in the role as commander of the vehicle crew. In this function he may be superior to one Truppmann (en: Troop man) and one Maschinist (en: Machine man). The Truppführer of self-contained Feuerwehrtrupp is also qualified to act on higher qualification in the role as Gruppenführer.

Responsibilities

  • meet the goals and objectives of the particular mission
  • lead the Trupp in line in accordance with the security and safety of live regulations

    • Bundeswehr

    Truppführer (short: TrpFr) may be the appointment or function designation of a person in uniform in the modern day German Bundeswehr. Normally one is authorized, mandated and competent to command, control, or lead (permanent or temporary) a Trupp (sub-subunit or small military team below platoon level) that – depending on the service, branch, or branch of service – normally contains two to six members.

    Corresponding designations to Trupp / Truppführer in Anglophone armed forces are “party“, “patrol“ or “team“ (e.g. support team, machine gun teams, mortar teams, sniper teams, … etc.) / “leader“ (short: … LDR, L).

    In the Bundeswehr some Trupps form a Gruppe (en: group); three to four groups build a Zug (en: platoon). To the appointment of Truppführer might be assigned normally an enlisted rank (up to OR-3) or a junior NCO (OR-4). However, in the German special command and support troops (de: Führungsunterstützungstruppen) a Truppführer might be appointed higher ranks as well.

    Examples to Truppführer / sub-unit leader

  • Mechanised infantry (de:Panzergrenadiertruppe): Truppführer Schützentrupp (from the armoured vehicle dismounted Schützentrupp)
  • Signal troops (de: Fernmeldetruppe): Funktruppführer
  • Maintenance troops (de:Instandsetzungstruppe): Instandsetzungstruppführer
  • Artillery troops (de: Artillerietruppe): Geschützführer (commander of a gun crew)
  • Armoured troops (de: Panzertruppe): Panzerkommandant (crew commander of an armoured vehicle / battle tank)
  • Company/ Battery troop commander (de: Kompanietruppführer / Batterietruppführer: commands as sub-unit leader the Kompanietrupp, respectively in *artillery troops and anti aircraft troops the Battery troop (de: Batterietrupp (new: Stabsdienstbearbeiter SK (StDstBeabr SK))

    • Designation

    Military symbol – Trupp / Truppführer (2 – 7 men) – in NATO-armed forces:

  • One single point (● Trupp / Truppführer general); respectively
  • One lying rectangle with one point above (Trupp as single sub-unit) on military maps

    • Particularity

  • Truppführer in the Reichsarbeitsdienst was a Feldwebel rank equivalent to NATO OR-6
  • In the Sturmabteilung an SA-Truppführer was a paramilitary rank, comparable to Feldwebel of the Wehrmacht and an SS-Oberscharführer of the Waffen-SS.

    • References

    Truppführer (modern) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA