Bundesminister: 1⅓ x B11 (Federal Ministers) Bundeskanzler: 1⅔ x B11 (Federal Chancellor) Bundespräsident: 1 5/6 x B11 (Federal President) (The last three do not qualify as Beamte stricto sensu.) W1: Juniorprofessor W2: Associate Professor W3: Full Professor (as a director of an institute or holder of a chair -rare-) C1: Wissenschaftlicher/Künstlerischer C2: Wissenschaftlicher/Künstlerischer Oberassistent C3: Professor (Extraordinarius) C4: Full Professor (Ordinarius; Lehrstuhlinhaber -rare-) (concerning schemes C and W, please see below. The W-classification has been introduced in 2002 to replace the C-classification for new appointments with the intention to allow salary negotiations for high profile individuals albeight the W scale starts on a lower level than the C scale and does not increase with age (comparison between base levels W3 to C4 and W2 to C3, respectively.)) R1: Staatsanwalt, Richter am Amtsgericht, Richter am Landgericht R2: Oberstaatsanwalt, Richter am Oberlandesgericht, Vorsitzender Richter am Landgericht R3: Leitender Oberstaatsanwalt R3, Vorsitzender Richter am Oberlandesgericht R4: Leitender Oberstaatsanwalt R4 R5: Generalstaatsanwalt R6: Bundesanwalt, Richter am Bundesgerichtshof R7: Abteilungsleiter bei der Bundesanwaltschaft R8: Vorsitzender Richter am Bundesgerichtshof R9: Generalbundesanwalt R10: Präsident(en) der Bundesgerichte, Richter am Bundesverfassungsgericht 1 1/6 x B11: Vizepräsident des Bundesverfassungsgerichts 1⅓ x B11 Präsident des Bundesverfassungsgerichts Salary Orders B, C, W and R all belong to the Senior Service; the Order B follows on from Order A. Some titles can roughly be compared to offices held by British or other civil servants. Overview There are also colonels in B3 paygrade. The paygrade of a brigadier general is B6, that of a major general B7, that of a lieutenant general B9 and that of a full general B10. Secondary Employments Due to the exclusive and intense mutual relationship between state institution and Beamter, possibilities for engaging into secondary employments are strictly regulated by the basic laws governing Beamte. In general these are limited to few hours per week and additional income beyond a very low threshold has to be delivered to the state. Exceptions are only made for academic professors (W2-W3 and C3-C4) where provisions are made especially for those who represent "free professions" like medicine, certain legal professions and pharmacists. Beamte who are Professors of Clinical Medicine usually have treatment priviledges at the respective university hospitals in most states. Federal Oath of Office of the Federal Republic of Germany German original, only valid for Beamte of federal and federal state agencies: Ich schwöre, das Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland und alle