Untersturmführer was a paramilitary rank of the German Schutzstaffel (SS) first created in July 1934. The rank can trace its origins to the older SA rank of Sturmführer, which had existed since the founding of the SA in 1921. The rank of Untersturmführer was senior to Hauptscharführer and junior to the rank of Obersturmführer.
Werner Wolff [es], SS-Untersturmführer of the Waffen-SS.
Adolf Eichmann's Lebenslauf for his application for promotion from SS-Hauptscharführer to SS-Untersturmführer in 1937
Uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel
The uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel (SS) served to distinguish its Nazi paramilitary ranks between 1925 and 1945 from the ranks of the Wehrmacht, the German state, and the Nazi Party.
SS–Gruppenführer Hans Heinrich Lammers in black Allgemeine SS uniform, 1938
2nd pattern SS Totenkopf, 1934–45
The earliest SS rank system, used during the year 1929
German poster showing uniforms and insignia of SS (to the right) and the Sturmabteilung (SA, to the left), published in English by the Chicago Sunday Tribune in 1933. The caption reads: Putting masculine Germany into uniforms of types portrayed above is only one aspect of complete regimentation of the German people – a regimentation which includes reshaping of thought in the Nazi mold, suppression of rights, and control and censorship over newspapers.