Editing Beamter (section)

==Designations of office==
In the German civil service (regardless of whether concerning the federal government, the 16 states or other entities), the official title of designation held by the Beamter is tied to one of the salary grades of the Federal Payment Act, on which the individual states base their own remuneration legislation.

The following lists are very generalised, especially in order ''B'' Beamte tend to have very specialised titles; thus, mayors, ambassadors, lords-lieutenant of districts and provinces will be fitted in somewhere depending on the importance of their office. For information's sake, judges and federal ministers who are ''not'' Beamte are included ([[Prosecutors Office|Staatsanwälte]] are, though). In the table, the same thing has been done to the general military ranks (without notice of naval ranks and other deviations).

Lower service (mostly abolished or in abeyance)
*A1: Amtsgehilfe (''now abolished'')
*A2: Oberamtsgehilfe, [[Wachtmeister]] (''now abolished'')
*A3: Hauptamtsgehilfe, Oberwachtmeister
*A4: Amtsmeister, Hauptwachtmeister
*A5: Oberamtsmeister, Erster Hauptwachtmeister
*A6: Oberamtsmeister, Erster Hauptwachtmeister
*A6+Z: Oberamtsmeister, Erster Hauptwachtmeister (salary according to slightly incremental schedule A6)

Middle Service:
*A5:   Werkführer, Assistant (''now rare'')
*A6:   Werkmeister, Oberassistent, Sekretär
*A7:   Meister, Obersekretär
*A8:   Obermeister, Hauptsekretär, e.g. Brandobermeister (fire fighter), Polizeiobermeister (policeman)
*A9:   Hauptmeister, Amtsinspektor
*A9+Z:   Erster Hauptmeister, Erster Amtsinspektor (salary according to slightly incremental schedule A9)

Upper service
*A9: Inspektor, f.e. Regierungsinspektor
*A10: Oberinspektor
*A11: [[Amtmann]]
*A12: Amtsrat
*A13: Oberamtsrat
*A13+Z: Oberamtsrat (salary according to slightly incremental schedule A13)

Upper service at the police (police officer)
*A9: Kommissar, f.e. Kriminalkommissar or Polizeikommissar (partially in abeyance)
*A10: Oberkommissar
*A11: Hauptkommissar
*A12: Hauptkommissar
*A13: Erster Hauptkommissar, f.e. Erster Kriminal- or Polizeihauptkommissar

Senior Service (advisors, senior advisors, managers)
*A13: Rat, e.g.: [[Studienrat]], Akademischer Rat, Major, Medizinalrat, Baurat, Bibliotheksrat, Verwaltungsrat, Regierungsrat
*A14: Oberrat, e.g. Akademischer Oberrat, Oberstudienrat, Oberregierungsrat
*A15: Direktor, e.g. Polizeidirektor, Kriminaldirektor, Psychologiedirektor, Pharmaziedirektor,
*A15+Z: Direktor, e.g. Studiendirektor, Psychologiedirektor (quite rare, salary according to slightly incremental schedule A15)
*A16: Leitender Direktor, e.g. Leitender Veterdinärdirektor, Leitender Medizinaldirektor, Ministerialrat, Oberstudiendirektor
*B1: Direktor und Professor (only in scientific institutions)
*B2: Abteilungsdirektor (Director of a Department), Direktor und Professor
*B3: Ministerialrat (Ministerial ~ counsellor/Counsellor [councillor<sup>BE</sup>, councilor<sup>AE</sup>] to the Ministry, usually (senior) head of unit)
*B4: Erster Direktor, Regierungsvizepräsident
*B5: Ministerialdirigent (on state level in positions of lesser importance)
*B6: Ministerialdirigent (in some states and on federal level), Präsident (head of senior federal institutions, e.g. Federal Archive (Bundesarchiv))
*B7: Präsident (of larger federal offices)
*B8: Präsident (head of a limited number of large federal offices)
*B9: Ministerialdirektor (~Undersecretary of State), Bürgermeister (Lord Mayor of cities above about 100,000 inhabitants), Präsident (head of a small number of most important federal offices)
*B10: Präsident der [[Federal Financial Supervisory Authority|BaFin]]) (and some other, very rare, posts)
*B11: Staatssekretär ([[state secretary]] – this applies only to permanent, not parliamentary, secretaries of state, though federal parliamentary secretaries receive similar payment)
*Bundesminister: {{frac|1|1|3}} x B11 (Federal Ministers)
*Bundeskanzler: {{frac|1|2|3}} x B11 ([[Chancellor of Germany|Federal Chancellor]])
*Bundespräsident: {{frac|1|5|6}} x B11 ([[President of Germany|Federal President]])
(The last three do not qualify as Beamte ''stricto sensu'', but are state officials sui generis.)

*W1: Juniorprofessor
*W2: Professor/University Professor 
*W3: Professor/University Professor (often as a director of an institute or holder of a chair)
*C1: Wissenschaftlicher/Künstlerischer {{sic|hide=y|Assistent}} - grade in abeyance
*C2: Wissenschaftlicher/Künstlerischer Oberassistent - grade in abeyance
*C3: Professor (Extraordinarius) - grade in abeyance
*C4: Full Professor (Ordinarius; Lehrstuhlinhaber -rare-) - grade in abeyance
''(concerning schemes C and W, please see below.  The W-classification has been introduced in 2002 to replace the C-classification for new appointments with the intention to allow salary negotiations for high profile individuals albeight the W scale starts on a lower level than the C scale and does not increase with age (comparison between base levels W3 to C4 and W2 to C3, respectively.))''

*R1: Staatsanwalt, Richter am [[Amtsgericht]], Richter am Landgericht                         
*R2: Oberstaatsanwalt, Richter am [[Oberlandesgericht]], Vorsitzender Richter am Landgericht  
*R3: Leitender Oberstaatsanwalt R3, Vorsitzender Richter am Oberlandesgericht             
*R4: Leitender Oberstaatsanwalt R4
*R5: Generalstaatsanwalt
*R6: Generalstaatsanwalt, Bundesanwalt, Präsident des Landgerichts (oder des Amtsgerichts), Richter am Bundesgerichtshof                                           
*R7: Abteilungsleiter bei der Bundesanwaltschaft
*R8: Vorsitzender Richter am Bundesgerichtshof, Präsident des Oberlandesgerichts                                          
*R9: Generalbundesanwalt
*R10: Präsident(en) der Bundesgerichte, Richter am [[Federal Constitutional Court|Bundesverfassungsgericht]]
*{{frac|1|1|6}} x B11: Vizepräsident des Bundesverfassungsgerichts
*{{frac|1|1|3}} x B11 Präsident des Bundesverfassungsgerichts

Salary Orders B, C, W and R all belong to the Senior Service; the Order B follows on from Order A.

Some titles can roughly be compared to offices held by British or other civil servants.

'''Overview'''

{| class="wikitable"
! Scheme!! Grade     !! Office name/term               !! Examples (Abbr. only for internal usage) !! cf. Military rank !! Civil service career law !!
|-
| A     || 2         || Oberamtsgehilfe                  ||                        ||                  ||'''Lower service'''
|-
| A     || 3         || Hauptamtsgehilfe                 ||                        || Grenadier, [[Gefreiter]] ||
|-
| A     || 4         || Amtsmeister                      ||                        || [[Obergefreiter]], Hauptgefreiter||
|-
| A     || 5         || Oberamtsmeister                  ||                        || Stabsgefreiter, Oberstabsgefreiter, [[Unteroffizier]]||
|-
| A     || 6         || Oberamtsmeister Erster Klasse||                            || ||
|-
| A     || 6         || Sekretär                         || Regierungssekretär (RS) || Stabsunteroffizier || '''Middle Service'''
|-
| A     || 7         || Meister, Obersekretär            || Polizeimeister (PM) || [[Feldwebel]], Oberfeldwebel ||
|-
| A     || 8         || Obermeister, Hauptsekretär       || Regierungshauptsekretär (RHS) || Hauptfeldwebel ||
|-
| A     || 9         || Hauptmeister, Amtsinspektor      || Brandhauptmeister (BHM) || Stabsfeldwebel, Oberstabsfeldwebel||
|-
| A     || 9         || Inspektor, Kommissar             || Regierungsinspektor  || [[Leutnant]] || '''Upper service'''
|-
| A     || 10        || Oberinspektor, Oberkommissar     || Regierungsoberinspektor (ROI) || [[Oberleutnant]] ||
|-
| A     || 11        || Amtmann, Hauptkommissar          || Regierungsamtsmann (RA) || [[Hauptmann]] ||
|-
| A     || 12        || Amtsrat, Hauptkommissar A12      || Kriminalhauptkommissar (KHK) || Hauptmann ||
|-
| A     || 13        || Oberamtsrat, Erster Hauptkommissar || Regierungsoberamtsrat (ROAR) ||[[Stabshauptmann]] ||
|-
| A     || 13        || Rat                               || [[Studienrat]] (StR)    || [[Major (rank)|Major]] || '''Senior Service'''
|-
| A     || 14        || Oberrat                          || Oberregierungsrat (ORR) || [[Oberstleutnant]] ||
|-
| A     || 15        || Direktor                         || Kriminaldirektor (KD) || Oberstleutnant ||
|-
| A     || 16        || Leitender Direktor, Oberdirektor, Ministerialrat|| Leitender Regierungsdirektor (LRD/LtdRD) || [[Oberst]]||
|}

There are also colonels in B3 paygrade. The paygrade of a brigadier general is B6, that of a major general B7, that of a lieutenant general B9 and that of a full general B10.

'''Secondary Employments'''

Due to the exclusive and intense mutual relationship between state institution and Beamter, possibilities for engaging into secondary employments are strictly regulated by the basic laws governing Beamte.  In general these are limited to few hours per week and additional income beyond a very low threshold has to be delivered to the state.  Exceptions are only made for academic professors (W2-W3 and C3-C4) where provisions are made especially for those who represent "free professions" like medicine, certain legal professions and pharmacists. Beamte who are Professors of Clinical Medicine usually have treatment privileges at the respective university hospitals in most states.