regimental hessian rankings
Kapitan
Officers
Ober-oficiers
Officers
Ensign
Unterofficier
Geimene the ranks
Korporal/sergants
Gefrieter
Fusilier/grenadier/Jäger
Rekrut
No.
During the 18th century there hasn't been a ranking system with that many ranks within the hessian military(or any other german really) at that time.
They just start to appear in the german speaking world thanks to Prussia around 1808.
(maybe minus the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg; George III. might have used them there after they got into a personal union)
they actually only had just Rankers/ordinary Soldiers,
NCO's (Depending on what regiment we're talking about the Colourbearer could be the NCO or just one of the special rankers that bears some flag.)
and the Officer additionally Musicians.
A more defined rank system (as you've written) wouldn't really make sense for all those Hessians.
The major difference between ranks was mostly the weapon the Soldier had in their hands.
(Ranker got a Musket or whatever Weapon fits for his Regt.;NCO mostly Partisans.;Officer mostly with some kind of Sword.)
in the case of the "Hessians" from Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel there was even a difference in the Uniform between NCO and Ranker like cuffs and lapels with silver edges for example.
If there actually was any official Ranking it would have been more like this:
Actual Ranks (if any really):
Officers:
Offizier ;I've sometimes read "Obrist/Oberst" (translates into Colonel and probably meaning the "Regimentschef/Regimentsinhaber" the one person that got appointed Ownership of the Regiment by the Duke/Head of State) - Officer
NCO's:
Unteroffizier - NCO
Enlisted:
Soldat/Musketier/Füsilier/Jäger/Husar/Kanonier etc. - Private/Ranker acutal Name may Depend on what kind of Regt. they're in.
In the case of Hessen-Kassel (that made up most of those "Hessians") Officers had gorgets, NCO's had Partisans and the Rest had ordinary equipment
Yeah there were several NCO's but there was no difference between NCO's and Rankers with uniforms and equipment (well apart from Partisans.)
In that case it is completely unneccesary to have Ranks like "Ensign" and "Unterofficier" because even if they'd have those ranks
they still couldn't tell one NCO from the other apart by looking at their uniform.
Other "Ranks" (not really ranks; more like just a certain duty that has been given to a Soldier):
Colour Bearer - Flaggenträger (Has obviously a flag; Generally looked like any other Ranker; unless he counted as an NCO,
Unless NCO's have no different Uniform compared to the ones the ordinary Soldier used in their Regt.)
Musician - Musiker (Has obviously some kind of instrument; may differ depending on what instrument they play then It'd be like *Insert German name of a music instrument*-spieler)
My Source: The German wikipedia page about the "Reichsarmee" (Army of the Holy Roman Empire)
here;
Some pages about Regiments of Hessen Kassel on Kronoskaf like
this;
Knowledge I got from some books that I've read nearly a year ago and forgot the title (very old, was definitley not standart high german);
And Informations from a tour through the Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr in Dresden (where I was about a month ago.).
EDIT: Removed some mistakes.