Infanterist

Offizier and Infanterist of the k.u.k. Inf.Rgt. 4, 1867

Infanterist (en: infantryman) – was the designation to the lowest private rank of infantry, the biggest armed forces branch of the common Austro-Hungarian Army (k.u.k. Army) from 1867 to 1918.

However, until 1918 Infanterist was also the common or generic designation to soldiers, rank independent, of the Infantry branch in the Austro-Hungarian Army as well as in the Army of the German Empire.

In line to the appropriate branch of service it did belong to the so-called Gemeine rank group, comparable to private, soldier or G.I. in Anglophone armed forces. Other Gemeine ranks were as follows:

Sequence of ranks
junior rank
no

(Austro-Hungarian
armed forces rank)

Infanterist
senior rank
Korporal
Waffenrock k.u.k Infantrists until 1918

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