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Stabsführer
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 Ranks and insignia of the Hitler Youth, Hitler Youth paramilitary rank held by the senior most member of the Adult Leadership Corps. 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. Office holders Hitler Youth NSFK NSKK SA References See also *Stabschef (SA), Stabschef Nazi paramilitary ranks {{nazi-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Socialist Flyers Corps
The National Socialist Flyers Corps (; NSFK) was a paramilitary aviation organization of the Nazi Party. History NSFK was founded 15 April 1937 as a successor to the German Air Sports Association; the latter had been active during the years when a German air force was forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles. The NSFK organization was based closely on the para-military organization of the ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA). A similar group was the National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK). During the early years of its existence, the NSFK conducted military aviation training in Glider aircraft, gliders and private airplanes. Leadership Friedrich Christiansen, originally a ''Generalleutnant'' then later a Luftwaffe ''General der Flieger'', was NSFK ''Korpsführer'' from 15 April 1937 until 26 June 1943, followed by ''Generaloberst'' Alfred Keller until 8 May 1945. Hermann Goering as Reich Marshal was nominal head of the NSFK and was occasionally consulted on issues surrounding heavy transport, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Jüttner
Max Paul Wilhelm Werner Jüttner (11 January 1888 – 14 August 1963) was a German military officer and an SA-''Obergruppenführer'' in the ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA), the Nazi Party's paramilitary organization. He served from 1934 to 1945 as head of the leadership office at the SA Supreme Command, and as the SA-''Stabsführer'' from 1939 to 1945. He also sat as a deputy in the '' Reichstag'' of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Captured after Germany's surrender in the Second World War, he testified at the Nuremberg Trials in defense of the SA. Early life and military career Jüttner was born in Saalfeld in the Duchy of Saxe-Meiningen, the son of a printing company owner. He attended ''Volksschule'' and '' Realgymnasium'' there, and he obtained his ''Abitur'' in 1906. He decided to pursue a military career, joined Field Artillery Regiment 55 (2nd Thuringian) in Naumburg as a ''Fahnenjunker'' (officer cadet) and was commissioned a ''Leutnant'' on 18 August 1907. He served in the Im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helmut Möckel (politician)
Helmut Möckel (21 June 1909 – 15 February 1945) was a German youth leader and politician. Background Möckel was born in Vielau near Zwickau in Saxony. After completing his school education he studied education and economics at Technische Universität Dresden and political science at University of Vienna. He helped found the National Socialist Teachers League in 1929 and joined the Nazi Party in 1930. From 1930 to 1933 he was a member of the SS. He became a full-time field leader of the Hitler Youth in 1933 and staff director in 1935. On 16 July 1937, Möckel became chief of the Office of Procurement for the Reich Youth Leadership. In April 1938 he was proposed, unsuccessfully, for membership of the Reichstag. He returned to Saxony to become a Hitler Youth field guide and was promoted to Gebietsführer for Saxony in August 1938. During his time as a Hitler Youth leader he wrote books on the subject of youth training. World War II At the outbreak of World War II in 1939, h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hitler Youth
The Hitler Youth ( , often abbreviated as HJ, ) was the youth wing of the German Nazi Party. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name ("Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth") in July 1926. From 1936 until 1945, it was the sole official boys' youth organisation in Germany (although the League of German Girls was a wing of it) and it was partially a paramilitary organisation. It was composed of the Hitler Youth proper for male youths aged 14 to 18, and the Deutsches Jungvolk, German Youngsters in the Hitler Youth ( or "DJ", also "DJV") for younger boys aged 10 to 14. With the German Instrument of Surrender, surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945, the organisation ''de facto'' ceased to exist. On 10 October 1945, the Hitler Youth and its subordinate units were outlawed by the Allied Control Council along with other Nazi Party organisations. Under Strafgesetzbuch section 86a, Section 86 of the Strafgesetzbuch, Criminal Code of the Germany, Federal Republic of Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hartmann Lauterbacher
Hartmann Paul Johann Lauterbacher (24 May 1909 – 12 April 1988) was the German '' Stabsführer'' of the Hitler Youth (''Hitler Jugend''), the ''Gauleiter'' of Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick (''Südhannover-Braunschweig''), the '' Oberpräsident'' of the Province of Hanover and an ''Obergruppenführer'' of both the SS and the SA in Nazi Germany. Tried and acquitted of war crimes after the Second World War, he lived a shadowy existence, was recruited by the West German spy agency and was involved in many underground intelligence operations. Early life in Austria Lauterbacher was born the son of a veterinarian in Reutte in the Tyrol when it was part of Austria-Hungary. He attended '' Volksschule'' in Reutte and Kufstein and the Kufstein '' Reform-Gymnasium''. From ages 16 to 18, he served an apprenticeship as a druggist in a pharmacy and photo development shop in Kufstein. After passing his state examination in 1928, he was employed by the Chamber of Industry and Commerce in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ranks And Insignia Of The Hitler Youth
The Hitler Youth ( , often abbreviated as HJ, ) was the youth wing of the German Nazi Party. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name ("Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth") in July 1926. From 1936 until 1945, it was the sole official boys' youth organisation in Germany (although the League of German Girls was a wing of it) and it was partially a paramilitary organisation. It was composed of the Hitler Youth proper for male youths aged 14 to 18, and the German Youngsters in the Hitler Youth ( or "DJ", also "DJV") for younger boys aged 10 to 14. With the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945, the organisation '' de facto'' ceased to exist. On 10 October 1945, the Hitler Youth and its subordinate units were outlawed by the Allied Control Council along with other Nazi Party organisations. Under Section 86 of the Criminal Code of the Federal Republic of Germany, the Hitler Youth is an "unconstitutional organisation" and the distribution or public use of its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otto Herzog
Otto Friedrich Herzog (30 October 1900 – 6 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party politician and SA-''Obergruppenführer''. During the closing months of the Second World War, he commanded the ''Volkssturm'' forces during the siege of Breslau and died there when the city fell to the Red Army in May 1945. Early life Herzog was born the son of an innkeeper in Zeiskam, in the Rhenish Palatinate. After attending elementary school from 1907 to 1914, and two years of vocational school, he began an apprenticeship in trade in Landau in December 1916 but enlisted as a cadet in the Bavarian Non-commissioned Officer Training School in Fürstenfeldbruck on 1 June 1917. Sworn in on 13 October, he was discharged at the end of the First World War in November 1918 without having seen combat. From 1 May to 30 September 1919, Herzog was part of the ''Freikorps'' led by Franz Ritter von Epp, and was involved in the suppression of the Bavarian Soviet Republic. During this action in early May, he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Petter
Kurt Petter (3 February 1909 – 3 October 1969) was a German physician, youth leader and educational administrator. Petter was born in 1909, the son of Bernhard and Marie Petter. He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, University of Bonn and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. During his final exam period he was pediatrician to the Hitler Youth in Jena. He was appointed Hitler Youth area leader for Weimar region in 1933. In 1939 he was appointed head of the Reichsführerschule in Potsdam. In January 1937 he served as an inspector-general of the Adolf Hitler Schools with the rank of Gebietsführer. On 20 April 1942 he was promoted to Obergebietsführer and served as Deputy to Artur Axmann and as head of the Adolf Hitler Schools. From February to May 1945, he was acting Stabsführer of the Hitler Youth following the death of Helmut Möckel. He was also a senior physician advising on physical and nutritional requirements for former Hitler Youth joining the Germ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reichsjugendführer
''Reichsjugendführer'' ("National Youth Leader") was the highest paramilitary rank of the Hitler Youth. On 30 October 1931, Hitler appointed Baldur von Schirach as the Reich Youth Leader of the Nazi Party. In 1933, after the Nazi seizure of state power, all youth organizations in Germany were brought under Schirach's control and he was designated the ''Jugendführer des Deutschen Reiches'' on 17 June. When Schirach was named ''Gauleiter'' of the ''Reichsgau Vienna'' on 8 August 1940, Artur Axmann succeeded him as ''Reichsjugendführer''. Axmann had served as Schirach's deputy since 1 May 1940. List Post-war With the surrender of Nazi Germany, the Hitler Youth was disbanded by Allied authorities as part of the denazification process. Both Schirach and Axmann were condemned as war criminals by the leading Allied Powers after the end of the Second World War in Europe, in particular for the role the two played in corrupting the minds of children. Schirach was sentenced to 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Nabersberg
Karl Nabersberg (sometimes written as Carl Nabersberg, 11 July 1908 – 15 January 1946) was a German youth leader. Nabersberg was the son of a Crefeld shopkeeper. In 1923 he joined the Jugendorganisation, the forerunner of the Hitler Youth, in his home town. On 28 December 1925 he was admitted as a member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (member number 26269) and as a member of the Sturmabteilung. After school, he studied law at the University of Cologne and Humboldt University of Berlin, although he never graduated. He participated in the founding of the Cologne local NSDAP and served from 1928 to 1929 as a high-school group leader of the National Socialist German Students' League as well as a group leader of the General Student Committee at Humboldt University. From November 1931 to June 1934 was Stabsführer of the Hitler Youth and deputy to Reichsjugendführer Baldur von Schirach. In July 1933, Schirach dissolved the Reich Committee of German Youth Associatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Socialist Motor Corps
The National Socialist Motor Corps (, NSKK) was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) that officially existed from May 1931 to 1945. The group was a successor organisation to the older National Socialist Automobile Corps (, NSAK), which had existed since April 1930. The NSKK served as a training organization, mainly instructing members in the operation and maintenance of high-performance motorcycles and automobiles. The NSKK was further used to transport NSDAP and SA members, and also served as a roadside assistance group in the mid-1930s. The outbreak of World War II in Europe led to recruitment among NSKK ranks to serve in the transport corps of various German military branches. A French section of the NSKK was also organised after the German occupation of France began in 1940. The NSKK was the smallest of the Nazi Party organizations. History The National Socialist Motor Corps (NSKK) was a successor organization to the older National Socialist Automobile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stabschef (SA)
(, ) was an office and paramilitary rank in the (SA), the paramilitary stormtroopers associated with the Nazi Party. It was a rank and position held by the operating chief of the SA. The rank was equivalent to the rank of in the German Army and to General in the U.S. Army. Definition The position of , not yet a rank, was established in 1929 to assist the (Supreme SA Leader) with the administration of the fast-growing organisation. Otto Wagener held the office under Franz Pfeffer von Salomon from 1928 to 1930, and effectively headed the SA from Hitler's assumption of the title in August until Ernst Röhm replaced him in January 1931. The actual SA rank of was created by Röhm for himself in 1933 after Hitler became chancellor. Although Hitler became the supreme commander of the SA in 1930, the day-to-day running of the organisation was left to the chief of staff. Thus, the men who held the rank of after 1930 were the actual leaders of the SA. Office holders The office o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
