Editing Sturmmann (section)

==Use==
[[File:Gerardus Mooijman (1943).jpg|thumb|150px|''SS-Sturmmann'' [[Gerardus Mooyman]]]]
{{WWII German enlisted ranks}}

''Sturmmann'' was senior to the rank of ''[[Mann (military rank)|Mann]]'' in the ''[[Allgemeine-SS]]'' (general-SS).{{sfn|McNab|2009|p=30}} In organizations which did not use the rank of ''Mann'' (such as the [[National Socialist Motor Corps]]), the rank of ''Sturmmann'' was the equivalent of a [[Private (rank)|private]] and wore a blank collar patch with no insignia.{{sfn|Flaherty|2004|p=148}} Within the [[Waffen-SS]], an SS-''Sturmmann'' was senior to an SS-''[[Oberschütze]]''.{{sfn|McNab|2009|p=30}}

The rank of ''Sturmmann'' was junior, in both the SS and SA, to the rank of ''[[Rottenführer]]''.{{sfn|McNab|2009b|p=15}}{{sfn|McNab|2009|p=30}} It was considered the equivalent to the rank of ''[[Gefreiter]]'' in the German Army and a lance-corporal in the British Army.{{sfn|Stein|1984|p=297}} The insignia for ''Sturmmann'' consisted of a bare collar patch with a single silver stripe.{{sfn|Flaherty|2004|p=148}} The [[field grey]] uniforms of the Waffen-SS also displayed the sleeve chevron of a ''Gefreiter''.