New Bundeswehr Ranks

[uscob]

Just heard from a friend who's active Army that, effective Oct. 1. next Year the Bundeswehr introduces 2 new Ranks as Korporal and Stabskorporal.
Learned that it's maybe mostly a money-thing, as the Uffz. and Stuffz. get more money, so the Korporal gets more resposibilities with less money.
It should look like a Hauptgefreiter in size but with one Large Bar, means the spaces are missing. The Stabskorporal gets an additional small Bar.
So it looks like a kind of lying Diamond.
Sorry no pics so far.

[HPL2008]

So, based on that description, the insignia will look something like this:


Kpl_StKpl_DA_1.jpg Kpl_StKpl_2.jpg


It's just a quick tentative illustration I made, using the Stabsgefreiter insignia graphics in Wikimedia Commons ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...ter_HFla_L.svg / https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...er_UA_Pi_L.svg ) as a basis.

[uscob]

Yes, that's it.

[hoover]

Ernsthaft jetzt?

Seriously?

[HPL2008]

Ernsthaft jetzt?

Seriously?

Yes; seriously: With the institution of the Korporal and Stabskorporal, there will be no less than eight private ranks.

By the way, according to a tweet of 3 August 2020 on the Heer's official Twitter account, the approval process for the new rank insignia is nearly completed; following the official approval, they will be published:

https://twitter.com/Deutsches_Heer/s...34152332140546

[hoover]

I am happy, that I had quit in 2003 after 12 years of service.