The technical sergeant (Abk.: OFw, in lists OF) designates a soldier in the secondarylowest sergeant rank in Germany with the German Federal Armed Forces. At the German navy this rank is called upper boat man.

Soldiers in this rank can give crews and NCOs without Portepee of instructions within the borders set by the superior regulation (VorgV).

The designation leads itself originally from Feldwaibel to bring (Waibel = part of the weaving loom, which up and drives off, around the threads into the correct "line"). Derived the Feldwaibel was responsible for aligned standing (begin) of its soldiers, in whom it went off before the front equally up and.

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