Kapitan (rank)
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A kapitan is used manifold as rank, grade, or rank designation in the Army, Air Force or Navy of numerous countries and armed forces. In member countries of NATO-alliance Kapitan is a commissioned off
Kapitein, mil. engineering, Netherlands ca. 1900.
Stabskapitän
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Stabskapitän, in the cavalry also Stabsrittmeister, or Kapitänleutnant, was a historic military rank in the Prussian Army. In reference to the German Stabskapitän the equivalent rank in the Imperial R
Kapitan (rank)
…commanding officers of company-sized units. In the 19th century it became gradually a military rank, and was used in combination with other noun, e.g. Stabs-kapitan (ru: штабс-капитан Russian Imperial Army) Kapitan-leytenant (naval forces). The rank designation Kapitan contains a common syllable and historical roots…
Staff captain, Russian artillery, wearing a Pickelhaube, about 1858