Authors: Luke McCallin
COMPARATIVE CHART OF SS, GERMAN ARMY, AND BRITISH ARMY RANKS
WAFFEN SS | WEHRMACHT | BRITISH ARMY |
Reichsführer-SS | - | - |
- | Generalfeldmarschall | Field Marshal |
SS-Oberstgruppenführer | Generaloberst | General |
SS-Obergruppenführer | General | Lieutenant General |
SS-Gruppenführer | Generalleutnant | Major General |
SS-Brigadeführer | Generalmajor | Brigadier |
SS-Oberführer | - | - |
SS-Standartenführer | Oberst | Colonel |
SS-Obersturmbannführer | Oberstleutnant | Lieutenant Colonel |
SS-Sturmbannführer | Major | Major |
SS-Hauptsturmführer | Hauptmann | Captain |
SS-Obersturmführer | Oberleutnant | Lieutenant |
SS-Untersturmführer | Leutnant | Second Lieutenant |
SS-Sturmscharführer | Hauptfeldwebel | Regimental Sergeant Major |
SS-Stabsscharführer | Stabsfeldwebel | Sergeant Major |
SS-Hauptscharführer | Oberfeldwebel | - |
SS-Oberscharführer | Feldwebel | Staff Sergeant |
SS-Scharführer | Unterfeldwebel | Sergeant |
SS-Unterscharführer | Unteroffizier | Corporal |
SS-Rottenführer | Stabsgefreiter | Lance Corporal |
- | Obergefreiter | - |
- | Gefreiter | - |
SS-Sturmmann | Oberschütze | Private |
SS-Oberschütze | Schütze | Private |
SS-Schütze | Gemeiner, Landser | Private |
IN THE GERMAN ARMY IN SARAJEVO
IN THE MILITARY POLICE, THE FELDJAEGERKORPS
Captain Gregor Sebastian Reinhardt:
a former detective in the Berlin Kriminalpolizei (Kripo)
Colonel Scheller:
commander of the Feldjaegerkorps in Sarajevo
Captains Lainer and Morten:
decorated veteran officers
Lieutenant Max Benfeld:
a young Feldjaeger officer from Alsace, known as “Frenchie”
Sergeant Priller:
a machine gunner
Corporal Ossig:
communications
Priller, Bader, Pollmann, Triendl:
Feldjaeger
IN THE MILITARY POLICE, THE FELDGENDARMERIE
General Herzog:
commander of military police in Sarajevo
Major Neuffer:
liaison officer to the Feldjaegerkorps
Sergeant Ibel:
a patrol officer
Private Günsche
IN THE 999TH BALKAN FIELD PUNISHMENT BATTALION, UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE FELDGENDARMERIE
Colonel Pistorius:
commanding officer
Major Erwin Jansky:
chief of staff
Lieutenants Brandt and Metzler:
officers in the penal battalion
Kreuz:
a soldier sentenced to the penal battalion, a recidivist and informant
Thun:
a documents clerk
Alexiou:
a Greek, a “hiwi,” a foreign volunteer
Kostas and Panos:
his twin sons
Georg Abler, Carl Benirschke, Otto Berthold, Bruno Cejka, Jozef Fett Werner Janowetz, Marius Maywald, Jürgen Sedlaczek, Christian Seymer, Ulrich Vierow:
soldiers sentenced to the penal battalion, their fate unknown
IN THE SARAJEVO GARRISON
General Kathner:
general officer commanding in Sarajevo
Judge Felix Erdmann:
chief of army criminal justice in Sarajevo
Judge Marcus Dreyer:
serving in the War Crimes Bureau, an old friend of Reinhardt's from Berlin
Colonel Wedel:
in charge of the army's defense plans for Sarajevo
Captain Langenkamp:
army liaison to the Ustaše
Doctor Henke:
a military doctor
Captain Prien:
an officer in military intelligence
IN THE CITYâTHE OPPOSING FORCES, THE CITIZENS CAUGHT IN-BETWEEN
IN THE PARTISANS
Vladimir âValter'
:
chief of the Partisans in Sarajevo
Simo:
his right-hand man
IN THE USTAÅ E
General Vjekoslav âMaks'
:
commander of the Ustaše in Sarajevo, a man of fearsome reputation
Colonel Ante
:
his deputy, known as “the Gambler,” an old adversary of Reinhardt's
Captain Bunda:
an Ustaše of imposing size and temper
Captain
:
Ustaše liaison officer to the German Army
Nikola Marin and Franjo Sutko:
Ustaše torturers
Labaš and Zulim:
Ustaše soldiers, friends with Bunda
Jovan Buzdek, Svetozar
, and Branimir Zulim:
Ustaše officers, brutal men, of particular interest to the Partisans
IN THE CITIZENRY
Suzana
:
one of the directors of Napredak, a humanitarian organization, and mother of Marija, whose death Reinhardt investigated in The Man From Berlin
Inspector
:
a detective in the Sarajevo police
Almira and Suljo
:
an elderly couple, refugees rescued by Reinhardt from a massacre
Neven:
a boy rescued by Reinhardt at the same time as the
Anica:
a woman working at Napredak
Safet
:
a playwright
ELSEWHERE AND ELSEWHEN . . .
Carolin:
Reinhardt's wife, died of cancer in 1938
Friedrich:
Reinhardt's son, lost with the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad
Captain Koenig:
officer in the Vienna garrison, a member of the German resistance
Rudolf Brauer:
Reinhardt's former partner in the Kripo and his oldest and closest friend
Colonel Tomas Meissner:
Reinhardt's mentor, and regimental commander during WWI, a member of the German resistance, his fate unknown
Major Hassler:
former deputy to Colonel Scheller, killed in action in Montenegro
Doctor Muamer
:
a senior Partisan, a friend of Reinhardt's, known as “the Shadow”
Inspector Andro Padelin:
a Sarajevo policeman and Ustaša, partnered with Reinhardt in
The Man From Berlin