page_title: Bootsmannsmaat
section_title: Austria-Hungary
hierarchical_section_title: Bootsmannsmaat / Austria-Hungary
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bootsmannsmaat der k.u.k. Kriegsmarine ohne NATO Bezeichnung Français&#160;: mâitre de la marine Autriche-Hongroise
context_page_description: Bootsmannsmaat, short BtsmMaat/BMT, was in the Austro-Hungarian Navy so-called enlisted rang and in the Imperial German Navy a non-commissioned officer OR5-rank. The Bootsmannsmaat is equivalent to the Unteroffizier / Unterfeldwebel of the German Bundeswehr. They belong to the rank group “NCOs without portepee”.
  Beside Austria and Russia the German Empire introduced the Bootsmannsmaat as lowest grade of the rank grop “NCOs without portepee of the Imperial German Navy. In the Weimarer Republik and the Kriegsmarine of the Third Reich the rank was retained.
  The Bootsmannsmaat was equivalent to the Unteroffizier in Heer und Luftwaffe.
  Regarding the particular career or assignment the sequence of ranks and the grade description was established as follows:
  for Maate – Bootsmannsmaat, Feuerwerksmaat, Maschinistenmaat, or Steuermannsmaat
  for Obermaate – Oberbootsmannsmaat, Oberfeuerwerksmaat, Obermaschinistenmaat, or Obersteuermannsmaat
context_section_description: Bootsmannsmaat was in the k.u.k. Austro-Hungarian Navy (1786 until 1918) equivalent to the rank Corporal of the  k.u.k. Common Army. The sequence of ranks was as follows:
  Rudergast - OR3 (en: Helmsman)
  Bootsmannsmaat - OR4 (en: boatswain's mate)
caption: K.u.k. BtsmMaat rank insignia, collar, sailor suit.
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