Oberstudienrat

Oberstudienrat [oːbɐˈʃtuːdi̯ənˌʁaːt] (male) or Oberstudienrätin [oːbɐˈʃtuːdi̯ənˌʁɛːtɪn] (abbreviated with OStR, female with OStR'in; literally "senior councillor of studies" or "senior educational councillor") is an official title for a certain rank of teacher in Germany, mostly employed in state-run grammar schools. An Oberstudienrat is a civil servant who belongs to the höherer Dienst (higher service), a category which is senior to the gehobener (elevated), the mittlerer (middle) and the einfacher (ordinary) Dienstgrad (service rank) in the civil service. An Oberstudienrat is remunerated according to category "A 14", which means a salary of at least some 50 000 € per year, exactly as much as the lower-half Lieutenant Colonels, and after at least two but no more than eight years of servi...