title: Patrouilleführer
text: # Patrouilleführer
  
  Patrouilleführer (en: patrol leader) was a military rank of the k.u.k. Austro-Hungarian Army (1867–1918). It might be comparable to enlisted men OR2/ Private 1st class ranks in Anglophone armed forces.
  
  However, in German speaking armed forces it was equivalent to the Gefreiter ranks (OR-2).
  
  In the k.u.k. Austro-Hungarian Army it was used by the k.u.k. Kaiserjäger as well as the k.u.k. Feldjäger; later also in the Standschützen troops, and the k.u.k. Cavalry. It was also corresponding to Gefreiter (Hungarian: Őrvezetö of the k.u.k. Infantry, Sanitätsgefreiter (en: medical gefreiter) of the k.u.k. Medical corps, as well as to Vormeister of the k.u.k. Artillery corps and to the k.u.k. Machine gun troops.
  
  Then rank insignia was a single white celluloid-star on grass-green stand-up collar of the so-called Waffenrock (en: uniform jacket) on gorget patch with a grass-green background (de: Paroli).
  
  ## Rank insignia
  
  | Desigahntion | Austrian k.u.k. Army enlisted men OR2 ranks | Austrian k.u.k. Army enlisted men OR2 ranks | Austrian k.u.k. Army enlisted men OR2 ranks | Austrian k.u.k. Army enlisted men OR2 ranks | Austrian k.u.k. Army enlisted men OR2 ranks | Austrian k.u.k. Army enlisted men OR2 ranks | Austrian k.u.k. Army enlisted men OR2 ranks | Austrian k.u.k. Army enlisted men OR2 ranks |
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  | insignia | | | | | | | | N/A |
  | description | Patrouilleführer | Patrouilleführer | Patrouilleführer | Gefreiter | Gefreiter | Vormeister | Gefreiter | Sanitätsgefreiter |
  | | k.u.k. Mountain troops | k.u.k. Rifles | | Machine-gun units | Infantry generic | |
  | branch | Rifles | Rifles | Cavalry | Infantry | Infantry | Artillery | Military engineering | Medical corps |
  | (equivalent) | (Rifle 1st class) | (Rifle 1st class) | (Private 1st class) | (Private 1st class) | (Private 1st class) | (Gunner 1st class) | (Private 1st class) | (Private 1st class) |
  