A Stabsführer (translated as Staff Leader) served as a deputy to the leader of Hitler Youth, National Socialist Flyers Corps, National Socialist Motor Corps or Sturmabteilung. It was furthermore a Hitler Youth paramilitary rank held by the senior most member of the Adult Leadership Corps.
Staff Leader | |
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Stabsführer | |
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Standards for the Stabsführer of HJ, NSFK, NSKK and SA | |
Nazi Party | |
Status | Abolished |
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Appointer | Führer of the NSDAP |
Formation | November 1931 |
Abolished | May 1945 |
The SS-Oberabschnitt (major districts) and SS-Abschnitt (sub districts) of the Allgemeine SS each had their own Stabsführer to head certain staff of the district. In the SS-Abschnitt they were often the de facto leader.[1]
Office holders
editHitler Youth
editNo. | Portrait | Stabsführer | Took office | Left office | Time in office |
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1 | Karl Nabersberg (1908–1946) | November 1931 | June 1934 | 2 years, 7 months | |
2 | Hartmann Lauterbacher (1909–1988) | 22 May 1934 | August 1940 | 6 years, 2 months | |
3 | Helmut Möckel (1909–1945) | August 1940 | 15 February 1945 † | 4 years, 6 months | |
- | Kurt Petter (1909–1969) Acting | 15 February 1945 | 8 May 1945 | 2 months |
NSFK
editNo. | Portrait | Stabsführer | Took office | Left office | Time in office |
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1 | Obergruppenführer Gerhard Sporleder (1893–?) | 1936 | 1940 | 3–4 years | |
2 | Obergruppenführer Karl Sauke (1897–1958) | 1940 | 1945 | 4–5 years |
NSKK
editNo. | Portrait | Stabsführer | Took office | Left office | Time in office |
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1 | Josef Seydel (1887–1945) | Obergruppenführer1935 | 10 April 1945 † | 9–10 years |
SA
editNo. | Portrait | Stabsführer | Took office | Left office | Time in office |
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1 | Otto Herzog (1900–1945) | Obergruppenführer1 May 1936 | 14 June 1939 | 3 years, 44 days | |
2 | Max Jüttner (1883–1963) | Obergruppenführer15 June 1939 | 8 May 1945 | 5 years, 327 days |
References
edit- ^ Yerger, Mark C. (1997). Allgemeine-SS. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing. pp. 82, 117.
See also
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