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Rittmeister
Rittmeister was a military rank of a comissioned cavalry officer in charge of a squadron, an equivalent of Captain, employed in German and Austro-Hungarian cavalry. It was also adopted into Russian New Regiments as rotmistr (ро́тмистр) and later legalized in Table of Ranks as the cavalry position; in 1798, a lower-ranking Stabs-Rittmeister was created.
The Polish army also used a similiar rank, Rotmistrz.
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