Oberleutnant is the highest lieutenant officer rank in the German-speaking armed forces of Germany (Bundeswehr), the Austrian Armed Forces, and the Swiss Armed Forces.
Image: Oberleutnant GT Schulterstück
The German Army is the land component of the armed forces of Germany. The present-day German Army was founded in 1955 as part of the newly formed West German Bundeswehr together with the Marine and the Luftwaffe. As of January 2022, the German Army had a strength of 62,766 soldiers.
Bundeswehr soldiers with MG1 and HK G3 during a 1960s maneuver. In the background is a Schützenpanzer Kurz.
M47 Patton tank in service with the Bundeswehr, 1960
Helicopter of the German Army Aviation Corps in Northern Iraq in 1991
German Army soldiers from Paratrooper Battalion 261 on board an armoured personnel carrier in Somalia in 1993