title: Obermaat
text: # Obermaat
  
  Obermaat is a military rank of the Bundeswehr and earlier other German-speaking armed forces.
  
  ## Bundeswehr
  
  Obermaat (OMaat or in lists OMT) is a rank of the German Navy. It belongs to the particular rank group NCO's without portepee.
  
  According to the salary class it is equivalent to the Stabsunteroffizier of Heer or Luftwaffe. It is grouped as OR5 in NATO, equivalent to Petty officer, second class, Sergeant, or Staff Sergeant in Anglophone armed forces.
  
  In navy context NCOs of this rank were formally addressed as Herr/ Frau Obermaat also informally / short Obermaat. The sequence of ranks (top-down approach) in that particular group is as follows: Unteroffizier ohne Portepee
  
  * OR-5a: Obermaat / (Heer/ Luftwaffe) Stabsunteroffizier
  * OR-5b: Seekadett / Fahnenjunker
  * OR-5c: Maat / Unteroffizier
  
  The abbreviation "OR" stands for "Other Ranks / fr: sous-officiers et militaires du rang / ru:другие ранги, кроме офицеров"!
  
  | Preceded by junior Rank Maat | (German NCO rank) Obermaat | Succeeded by senior Rank Bootsmann |
  | - | - | - |
  
  ## Obermaat Nazi-Kriegsmarine until 1945
  
  Maate (Unteroffiziere ohne Portepee) :
  
  | Title | Obermaat | Obermaat |
  | - | - | - |
  | Collar tab | | |
  | Sleeve insignia | | |
  | Sleeve insignia | Obersteuermannmaat | Oberbootsmannmaat |
  | Shoulder strap | | N/A |
  | Wehrmacht equivalent | Unterfeldwebel | Unterfeldwebel |
  