Senior colonel Senior colonel Senior colonel is an army officer rank placed between a regular colonel and a major general. The rank typically exists in militaries that do not maintain a rank of brigadier general or brigadier. In Nazi Germany, a rank equivalent to senior colonel, "Oberführer", was used by both the SA and SS. In the branches of the "Allgemeine SS" (General SS) and "Waffen-SS" (Armed SS) the rank of "Oberführer" was widely used. The rank did not exist in the army ("Heer"), although the "Kriegsmarine" (navy) maintained the equivalent rank of "Kommodore". After World War II, armies in Asia, especially
Colonel general tábornok" (general of cavalry), and "táborszernagy" (general of artillery) in the early 1940s. The rank title "vezérezredes" is still in use for the highest ranking (four-star) general officers of the "Magyar Honvédség" (Hungarian Defence Forces) and foreign four-star general officers' rank titles are usually translated as "vezérezredes" in Hungarian including Commonwealth air forces' Air Chief Marshals. The equivalent rank for Colonel general in Iraq is called "Ferik Awwal", in Arabic "فريق أول", which is considered the highest rank in Iraqi Army nowadays. The North Korean rank of "sangjang" translates as "colonel general". "Sangjang" is senior to that of "jungjang" (usually