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Leutnant zur See
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In the Reichsmarine (until crew 1930) it took the cadets
4 and half year to reach the Leutnant rank. This time became then shorter. From 1938 the
Leutnant's needed an average 2 years and 6 months to reach this rank.
The Leutnant zur See wear only the plain shoulder-strap, the Leutnant (Ing.) and also all the other engineer ranks had a cog-wheel on the shoulder-strap (see left). They had one stripe on the shade of cap. On the sleeve they wear one strip and the star (engineer officers also wore the cog-wheel). |
Leutnant zur See (left) in the 7th Flotilla in March 1944.
Young Leutnant zur See seen as II WO in Norwegian waters.
