Key facts
- Military rank.name
- Hauptsturmführer
- Military rank.image
- 100px
- Military rank.caption
- SS collar patches
- Military rank.service branch
- Schutzstaffel Sturmabteilung National Socialist Motor Corps National Socialist Flyers Corps
- Military rank.abbreviation
- Hstuf
- Military rank.NATO rank
- OF-2
- Military rank.formation
- 1934
- Military rank.abolished
- 1945
- Military rank.higher rank
- Sturmbannführer
- Military rank.lower rank
- Obersturmführer
- Military rank.equivalents
- Hauptmann
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- captain
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- Commons category
- SS-Hauptsturmführer
- topic's main category
- Category:SS-Hauptsturmführer
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- Obersturmführer
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- Sturmbannführer
- short name
- Hstuf
- used by
- Schutzstaffel
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thumb|Hauptsturmführer Albert Klett, photographed in 1945 (, ; short: Hstuf) was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was used in several Nazi organizations such as the SS, NSKK and the NSFK. The rank of Hauptsturmführer was a mid-level commander and had equivalent seniority to a captain (Hauptmann) in the German Army and also the equivalency of captain in foreign armies.
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