Deutsch: ORGANISATIONSBUCH DER
NSDAP 1943:
Seite 28a
E. Überschict über die Dienststellungsabzeichen der Politiscen Leiter der NSDAP. Dienststellungs-abzeichen, Beschreibung, Dienststellungs-bezeichnung, im
Hoheitsgebiet English: Chart showing
service insignia and positional titles of the political leaders of the
National Socialist German Workers' Party (German:
Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, NSDAP) in
Nazi Germany. The chart lists illustrations and descriptions of service
swastika armbands (
Hakenkreuzarmbinden), job titles, and
organizational "level" (local, county, regional, or national).
The "armband system" was instituted by the Nazi Party in 1939 at the same time that the political leadership ranks were expanded into their final form. The purpose of the armband system was to denote positional titles within the Nazi Party in contrast to a party member's political rank. There were three groupings of armbands, classified as "operational", "administrative", and "command". In its simplest form, the Nazi Party command structure was divided into four basic levels: the general membership known as the Parteimitglieder, the political leadership corps known as the Politische Leiters, the upper command levels of the Party encompassed by the Gauleiters (district leaders) and Reichsleiters (national leaders), and finally the position of Führer held solely by Adolf Hitler as supreme leader of the Party.
Cropped page copied from
Organisationsbuch der NSDAP by
Reichsorganisationsleiter Robert Ley (1890 – 1945) published 1943 ("Herausgeber: Robert Ley"; "7 Auflage: 301-400 Tausend"). Publisher : Zentralverlag der NSDAP, Franz Eher Nachf., München. 856 pages. 596 (ie 750) p: ill, maps, ports, plates; 22 cm; German language. Letters in
Fraktur style typefaces.