Wehrmachtbeamter
The Wehrmachtbeamter or plural Wehrmachtbeamte (Wehrmacht official; also Wehrmachtsbeamte) or Militärverwaltungsbeamte der deutschen Wehrmacht (military administration officers of the German Wehrmacht) were a special form of civil servants in the German Reich since the end of 1934, which differed in many ways from the civilian civil servants (Beamte) of the time with ranks equivalent to those of the German Armed Forces from NCOs to generals. The Kriegsmarine, as in the Imperial German Navy, also had civil servants. Analogous to the Wehrmacht civil servant with the rank of general, there were “naval Marinebeamten with the rank of admiral.”
History
National Socialist Germany had adopted the separation between military officials and civilian officials of the army administration from the Reichswehr, which had been demanded by the victorious powers of the First World War through the so-called Inter-Allied Military Control Commission. This separation was abolished by the decree of the Führer and Reich Chancellor on rank and service relationships and uniforms of Wehrmacht officials ("Verordnung des Führers und Reichskanzlers über Rang- und Dienstverhältnisse sowie Uniform der Wehrmachtsbeamten") of the Heer from 22 December 1934. Wehrmachtbeamte (army) was from then on the name for all officials of the army administration. Similar decrees were issued for the German Air Force and German Navy in March 1935.
