RAD Ranks?

[Tom Houlihan]

Does anyone know if there was a direct correlation between RAD ranks, and military ranks? Or, did the rank structure mean nothing to anyone outside the RAD?

What I'm getting at, is a Leutnant zur See still rated a salute from a Heer Oberfeldwebel. The Oberfeldwebel would have to follow a direct order.

If an Oberarbeitsführer gave an Unteroffizier an order, would that Unteroffizier be required to obey it?

Can anyone match up corresponding ranks between the RAD and say, the Heer? Would a Truppführer be a Leutnant equivalent?

[Yancy Irwin]

Hello Tom

heres the RAD ranklist and the wehrmacht equivilant-

arbeitsman = soldat
vormann = gefrieter
obervormann = obergefreiter
truppfuhrer = unteroffizier
obertruppfuhrer = feldwebel
unterfeldmeiter = oberfahnrich (warrent officer)
feldmeister = leutnant
oberfeldmeister = oberleutnant
oberstfeldmeister = Hauptman
arbeitsfuhrer = major
oberarbeitsfuhrer = obstlt.
oberstarbeitsfuhrer = Oberst.
generalarbeitsfuhrer = Gen.maj.
obergeneralarbeitsfuhrer = Gen.lt.

[Tom Houlihan]

Thanks, Yancy!

This will hopefully make things a little clearer in my current work.