Obersturmführer
German, noun
Obersturmführer is spelled O-B-E-R-S-T-U-R-M-F-Ü-H-R-E-R (15 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written German, the 163,492nd most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Obersturmführer is a German masculine noun meaning “a former military rank in the SS and SA in Nazi Germany, equal to a "Oberleutnant" (first lieutenant) in the regular Wehrmacht” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does Obersturmführer mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinea former military rank in the SS and SA in Nazi Germany, equal to a "Oberleutnant" (first lieutenant) in the regular Wehrmacht
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of Obersturmführer
- Obersturmführers genitive
- Obersturmführern dative definite plural
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is Obersturmführer in German?
Obersturmführer appears about once in every 9 million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).