EXPLORING THE RANKS AND INSIGNIA OF THE NSDAP
RANKS & INSIGNIA
The ranks and insignia of the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) or the Nazi Party, otherwise known as the Third Reich Insignia, are the paramilitary titles and ranks held by the political leadership corps, who were a small minority, of the party saddled with the responsibility of overseeing the regular members of NSDAP. These ranks were used from around 1928 till the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945. The regular party members who were not involved in political leadership, were not given these ranks and they had no NSDAP uniform, except the NSDAP membership badge.
THE INITIAL REASON OF FORMING THESE RANKS AND INSIGNIA WAS TO PROVIDE DISTRICT LEADERSHIP DURING ELECTIONS IN THOSE YEARS WHEN NSDAP WAS TRYING TO COME INTO POWER IN GERMANY.
THEN AFTER 1933, WHEN THE THIRD REICH HAS BEEN FULLY ESTABLISHED, NSDAP RANKS WERE USED TO RUN A POLITICAL CHAIN OF COMMAND OPERATING SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE RULING GOVERNMENT IN GERMANY.
THERE WERE EARLY NAZI PARTY TITLES LIKE "FÜHRER" WHICH HITLER CALLED HIMSELF AFTER HE REPLACED THE LEADER OF NSDAP, DEPUTY FÜHRER AND FEW ADMINISTRATIVE TITLES LIKE PARTY SECRETARY AND PARTY TREASURER BUT THE FOCUS OF THE PIECE ARE THE RANKS AND INSIGNIA OF THE NSDAP ERA.
First set of ranks 1932 Blockleiter
Zellenleiter
Ortsgruppenleiter
Block Leader
Cell Leader
Local Group Leader
First set of ranks 1932
Then a higher rank of the National Organizational Leader, known as "Reichsorganisationsleiter" was also established as the most senior Reich Inspector of the party but was not given other insignia except the one already worn by the National Inspector rank.
Kreisleiter
Gauleiter
Landesinspekteur
Reichsinspekteur
The County Leader
The Regional Leader
The State Inspector
The National Inspector
Hauptdienstleiter (Head Service Leader) Amtsleiter (Office Leader)
Dienstleiter (Service Leader) Hauptstellenleiter (Head Department Leader)
Mitarbeiter (Colleague)
Stellenleiter (Department Leader)
POLITICAL STAFF RANKS [USED BETWEEN 1933 AND 1939]
Stützpunktleiter (Base Leader)
Ortsgruppenleiter (Local Group Leader)
Kreisleiter (District Leader)
Reichsleiter (Deputy Führer)
Gauleiter (Province Leader)
Stellvertreter Gauleiter (Deputy Province Leader)
POLITICAL LEADERSHIP RANKS
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