(English: Senior Staff-Surgeon General) and its navy equivalant (English: Senior Staff-Surgeon Admiral) are the highest ranks of the Joint Medical Service of the German . The equivalent OF-8 rank in the Heer and Luftwaffe is Generalleutnant and in the German Navy the Vizeadmiral.
In accordance with traditions in German armed forces, both ranks might be used in Bundeswehr medical service. Normally the Bundeswehr Surgeon General of the medical service (de: Inspekteur des Sanitätsdienstes), or the Chief of Medical Operationôs Command (de: Kommandeur Sanitätsführungskommando) might be assigned. However, in future the Chief position might remain vacant, because the Deputy Surgeon General is mandated to command the Medical Operationôs Command.
Equivalent to that three-star ranks (NATO-Rangcode OF-8) are Generalleutnant ("Lieutenant general") of the Heer or Luftwaffe, and the Vizeadmiral (en: Vice admiral) of the Marine.
The manner of formal addressing of military surgeons with the rank (OF-6, one-star rank), (OF-7, two-star rank) or is, "Herr/Frau Generalarzt". At the other hand, military surgeons with the rank (OF-6, one-star rank), (OF-7, two-star rank) or is, "Herr/Frau Admiralarzt". Although the grammatically female form of Arzt is ÃÂrztin, the military does not have separate gendered ranks, so the correct form of address for a female doctor is "Frau Stabsarzt".
On the shoulder straps (Heer, Luftwaffe) there are three golden stars in golden oak leaves and the career insignia (de: Laufbahnabzeichen) as symbol of the medical standing, or course of studies. Regarding the Marine, the career insignia is in the middle of both sleeves, three centimeters above the cuff strips, and on the shoulder straps between strips and button.
The General of the branch grade Generaloberstabsarzt was the most senior ranks of the medical service of the German Wehrmacht 1933 to 1945.
Siegfried Handloser was assigned to Generaloberstabsarzt of the Wehrmacht. He was simultaneous "Chief of the Wehrmachts Medical Service in Supreme Command of the Wehrmacht" (Chef des Wehrmachtsanitätswesens im Oberkommando der Wehrmacht) as of July 28, 1942. Curt Schulze was Generaloberstabveterinär of the Wehrmacht.
Generaloberstabsarzt of the Wehrmacht was comparable to the General of the branch (OF8, three stars), as well as to the Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS.
In line to the so-called (en: Reich's salary order), appendixes to the Salary law of the German Empire (de: Besoldungsgesetz des Deutschen Reiches) of 1927 (changes 1937 â 1940), the comparative ranks were as follows: C 1
Rank designations of the Kriegsmarine as to Match 30, 1934, are contained in the table below.