NS ranks
The Nazi ranks represent the ranks of the Wehrmacht and several National Socialist organizations in the German Reich (1933 to 1945) in tabular form. All organizations were structured according to the Führer principle and were based on the hierarchy of the Wehrmacht.
National Socialist hierarchy in comparison to the Wehrmacht
Notes:
The table is not exhaustive; That is, it does not cover all NS ranks and not all NS organizations. The establishment of many new organizations or their integration into the National Socialist system (in addition to those mentioned in the list, for example, the German Labor Front , NSV , NS-Frauenschaft , NS-Studentenbund , NS-Dozentbund , Reichsluftschutzbund ) created many organizational structures, which after the Leadership principle and provided numerous correspondingly graded management tasks.
Demarcation from employment
In addition to the rank designations, there was the - in practice much more important - position with which the function (the office) was designated. In the military, too, rank and position were and are separate (e.g. "first lieutenant and company commander": first lieutenant is the rank that also determines the salary group, while company commander describes the current activity. This first lieutenant, for example, was the superior the platoon leader of his company, even if they were also first lieutenant ). A specialty in the military was the position of Sergeant Major ( Spieß ), to which Portepee NCOs could be appointed; However, it was the only service position that was recognizable on the uniform: 2 silver sleeve stripes (so-called piston rings ) on each forearm.
This separation also existed in the NSDAP and its organizations. B. in the list of the relatively well-known NSDAP function term Ortsgruppenleiter not. It is somewhat confusing, however, that the NSDAP groups often used identical terms for ranks and positions. So could z. B. at the Reichsarbeitsdienst (RAD) a troop may be commanded by a troop leader or a sub- troop leader : "Sub-troop leader Meier was troop leader of the 2nd troop".
It should also be noted that there were significantly more ranks than service positions (“command levels”) in all of the organizations mentioned. With the army it was z. B. only ten: group (approx. 10 soldiers), platoon (30), company (100), battalion (3–4 companies), regiment (3–4 battalions), division (several regiments), army corps (several divisions) , Army (several army corps), Army Group (several armies), High Command of the Army .
In a concentration camp , for example, there was the position of camp commandant . Depending on the size of the camp (main camp, subsidiary camp, external command), his rank was, for example, Obersturmbannführer , Hauptsturmführer or squad leader .
See also
- Table showing the ranks and insignia of the SS
- Ranks of the armed forces
- SS honorary and rank leader , Reich doctor SS
- SS helper
- List of generals of the Waffen SS
- Rank adjustment in the police in the German Reich, Ordnungspolizei
- Nachrichten-HJ , NS student union
- Structure of the NSDAP
literature
- Hermann Weiß (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for the Third Reich . Revised new edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-596-13086-7 ( Fischer 13086 The time of National Socialism ).
- Wolfgang Benz (Ed.): How did you become a party member? The NSDAP and its members. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-18068-4 ( Fischer 18068 The time of National Socialism ).
Footnotes
- ↑ Hermann Weiß (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for the Third Reich. Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002 (Appendix).
- ↑ The rank designations of the Army Administration (HV) are z. In part also applicable to the naval administration , but also to the military administration in the areas occupied by Nazi Germany.
- ↑ a b The ranks of the NSDAP and the RAD cannot consistently be assigned to those of the Wehrmacht.
- ↑ Only Hermann Göring , from 1940
- Jump up !, Bibliographisches Institut AG., Leipzig, 1938, p. 203.
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^ Ordinance sheet of the Waffen-SS, 3rd year - Berlin, June 15, 1942 - number 12 - p. 46:
“The Reichsführer-SS has ordered that the new rank of the SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer - to avoid confusion with the rank of the SS-Obergruppenführer - is written as follows: SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer. "Quoted from Klietmann in" Feldgrau ", 13th year No. 1, Berlin 1967. - ↑ cf. Chart "Structure and structure of the Hitler Youth", in: Jungvolk-Jahrbuch 1940, Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf., Munich 1939
- ↑ Michael Buddrus: Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy (= texts and materials on contemporary history. Vol. 13). 2 parts. KG Saur, Munich 2003, part 1, p. 14, ISBN 3-598-11615-2
- ↑ This SS rank had no army equivalent, rather it corresponded to that of a senior colonel who was entitled to wear the silver-gray lapels and the aluminum cap piping of a general, but still had the shoulder boards of a colonel. (Source: Andrew Mollow: Uniforms of the Waffen-SS , p. 154)
- ↑ Michael Buddrus: Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy (= texts and materials on contemporary history. Vol. 13). 2 parts. KG Saur, Munich 2003, part 1, p. 14, ISBN 3-598-11615-2
- ↑ Michael Buddrus: Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy (= texts and materials on contemporary history. Vol. 13). 2 parts. KG Saur, Munich 2003, part 1, p. 14, ISBN 3-598-11615-2
- ↑ Michael Buddrus: Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy (= texts and materials on contemporary history. Vol. 13). 2 parts. KG Saur, Munich 2003, part 1, p. 14, ISBN 3-598-11615-2
- ↑ Michael Buddrus: Total education for total war. Hitler Youth and National Socialist Youth Policy (= texts and materials on contemporary history. Vol. 13). 2 parts. KG Saur, Munich 2003, part 1, p. 14, ISBN 3-598-11615-2
- ↑ Museums Köln: Die Hitlerjugend (Geographical Classification Section) , accessed August 6, 2020
- ↑ Museums Köln: Die Hitlerjugend (Geographical Classification Section) , accessed August 6, 2020
- ↑ a b The rank was in the SS to the disempowerment of the SA in the summer of 1934 storm main leader and then in Hauptsturmfuehrer renamed. A renaming in the SA was made with the formation of the SA military teams in 1939/40, so that this rank in all Nazi organizations was Hauptsturmführer .
- ↑ a b The Hauptfeldwebel of the Wehrmacht or Stabsscharführer of the SS was introduced in 1938 and was not a rank, but the service designation for the company sergeant, also "Spieß". First introduced to the SS for the Waffen SS, but later also used in other areas of the Schutzstaffel.
- ↑ a b c "Deployment Wehrmacht Fee Law in the version of November 1, 1944." Reichsgesetzlatt I , 1944, p. 296.
- ↑ a b c "Overview of the ranks of the German armed forces." Zeitgesichte information system. 2020-02-27.