Feuerwerker
Feuerwerker are specialists in the armed forces of German-speaking countries responsible for the maintenance of ammunition.
From the late Middle Ages until the Early modern period a Feuerwerker was a highly specialised artisan with detailed knowledge of the closely guarded secrets of making gunpowder. Since the 19th century Feuerwerker became a distinguished career in Austrian, German and Russian armed forces.
Germany
In the modern German Bundeswehr, Feuerwerker is the collective designation to non-commissioned officers and officers of the military functional service with several years of special training pertaining to construction, maintenance, and destruction of ammunition.Austro-Hungarian Empire
Feuerwerker was a military rank of the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces.In the Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces Feuerwerker was equivalent to:
- Beschlagmeister I. Klasse cavalry,
- Feldwebel infantry,
- Oberjäger of the mountain troops,
- Rechnungs-Unteroffizier I. Klasse,
- Regimentshornist,
- Regimentstambour,
- Wachtmeister cavalry,
- Waffenmeister I. Klasse artillery and weapon arsenal,
- *Einjährig-Freiwilliger-Feldwebel, and
- *Kadett-Feldwebel.
| Junior rank Zugsführer | Feuerwerker | Senior rank Stabsfeuerwerker |
The rank insignia was a gorget patch on the stand-up collar of the so-called Waffenrock'', and consisted of three white stars on 13 mm ragged yellow silk galloon. The gorget patch and the stand-up collar showed the particular Waffenfarbe.
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