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The final pattern of Nazi Party ranks was designed in 1938 by Robert Ley, who personally oversaw the development of Nazi Party insignia through his position as Reichs Organisation Leader of the NSDAP, and put into effect in mid-1939. The new insignia pattern was a vast overhaul of previous designs beginning with a standardised set of twenty ...
The comparative ranks of Nazi Germany contrasts the ranks of the Wehrmacht to a number of national-socialist organisations in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in a synoptic table. Nazi organisations used a hierarchical structure, according to the so-called Führerprinzip (leader principle), and were oriented in line with the rank order system of ...
The Nazi Party grew significantly during 1921 and 1922, partly through Hitler's oratorical skills, partly through the SA's appeal to unemployed young men, and partly because there was a backlash against socialist and liberal politics in Bavaria as Germany's economic problems deepened and the weakness of the Weimar regime became apparent.
National Socialist paramilitary ranks were pseudo-military titles, which were used by the Nazi Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei; NSDAP), between 1920 and 1945. Since the Nazi Party was by its very nature a paramilitary organisation, by the time of World War II , several systems of paramilitary ranks had come into existence ...
SS–Gruppenführer Hans Lammers in black Allgemeine SS uniform, 1938 The uniforms and insignia of the Schutzstaffel (SS) served to distinguish its Nazi paramilitary ranks between 1925 and 1945 from the ranks of the Wehrmacht (the German armed forces from 1935), the German state, and the Nazi Party.
Dietrich Eckart – A founder of the German Workers' Party, a precursor to the Nazi Party, he was the first editor of Völkischer Beobachter and a participant in the Beer Hall Putsch. Joachim Albrecht Eggeling – Gauleiter of Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt (1935–1937) and Gau Halle-Merseburg (1937–1945); Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of ...
Reichsleiter (German pronunciation: [ˈʁaɪ̯çsˌlaɪ̯tɐ] ⓘ, transl. national leader or Reich leader) was the second-highest political rank in the Nazi Party (NSDAP), subordinate only to the office of Führer. Reichsleiter also functioned as a paramilitary rank within the NSDAP and was the highest rank attainable in any Nazi organisation. [1]
The uniforms and insignia of the Sturmabteilung were Nazi Party paramilitary ranks and uniforms used by SA stormtroopers from 1921 until the fall of Nazi Germany in 1945. The titles and phrases used by the SA were the basis for paramilitary titles used by several other Nazi paramilitary groups, among them the Schutzstaffel (SS).