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    Ortsgruppenleiter (Local Group Leader) was a Nazi Party political rank and title which existed between 1930 and 1945. The term first came into being during...
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    possible rank one could achieve. The heads of the lower levels, the Ortsgruppenleiter and the Kreisleiter, now held standard Nazi Party ranks in addition...
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    Betriebsobmann Bezirksleiter Blockleiter Inspekteur Kreisleiter Mitarbeiter Ortsgruppenleiter Sonderbeauftragter Stellenleiter Stützpunktleiter Zellenleiter Reichsluftschutzbund...
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    the Golden Party Badge. Later that year, he rose to the position of Ortsgruppenleiter (Local Group Leader) and, on 1 October 1929, he was promoted to Bezirksleiter...
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    Putsch, Rust joined the German Völkisch Freedom Party and served as an Ortsgruppenleiter and later as Gauleiter for Hanover. When the ban on the Nazi Party...
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    direct appointment from Adolf Hitler. Until 1939, Kreisleiter and Ortsgruppenleiter, were the fourth and fifth tier of the Nazi Party hierarchy, but they...
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    to Vienna (1973, directed by Edgar Reitz), as Fred Scheuermann – Ortsgruppenleiter Brigitte, Laura, Ursula, Monica, Raquel, Litz, Florinda, Barbara,...
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    In April 1927 he became Deputy Ortsgruppenleiter (Local Group Leader) in Wiesbaden. He soon moved up to Ortsgruppenleiter, and from 20 May 1928 was the...
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    and Walter is deeply resentful of his father, the local Nazi Party Ortsgruppenleiter, who has chosen to save his own skin under the pretense of an important...
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    and Gauleiter. The fifth level beneath the Kreisleiter were the Ortsgruppenleiters. Clark, J. (2007). Uniforms of the NSDAP. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing...
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    administrative personnel) Gestapo Hans Wegsheider Ortsgruppenleiter in Allgau 1933-1945 Ortsgruppenleiter Corps of Political Leaders Heinrich Vitzdmann Chief...
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  • Ober­abschnitts­leiter Abschnitts­leiter Haupt­gemeinschafts­leiter (Ortsgruppenleiter) Ober­gemeinschafts­leiter Gemeinschafts­leiter Haupteinsatz­leiter...
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    Adolf Mahr, director of the National Museum of Ireland, was also Ortsgruppenleiter of the local Nazi party until 1939; he was succeeded by Heinz Mecking...
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    Party (NSDAP), attracted by its virulent anti-semitism. He became the Ortsgruppenleiter (Local Group Leader) in Karlsruhe and joined the Sturmabteilung (SA)...
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    directed the Ortsgruppenleiters who oversaw towns or villages or part of a larger city, usually 1500 to 3000 households. Ortsgruppenleiters directed Zellenleiters...
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    Standarte X in Munich, the Nazi Party headquarters. He was also an Ortsgruppenleiter (Local District Leader) in the Munich Party organization and served...
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    founded the Ortsgruppe (Local Group) in Essen, becoming its first Ortsgruppenleiter. He also joined the Sturmabteilung (SA) becoming the SA-Führer in...
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  • the election of Albert Krebs with the title of Chairman (in effect, Ortsgruppenleiter) of the new organization. Klant protested his removal by appealing...
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    Party leader in the St. Johannis section of the city, then as an Ortsgruppenleiter (Local Group Leader) and from 16 July 1934 as a Kreisleiter (County...
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  • Volksdeutsche Bewegung in Luxembourg, and in October 1940 he became Ortsgruppenleiter of Haute. After the war ended, he was executed for his collaboration...
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    the Nazi Party in 1923 (membership number 11,330) and became the Ortsgruppenleiter (Local Group Leader) in Erbendorf. He participated in the abortive...
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    instigated by the local mayor's office, or on application from the Ortsgruppenleiter (local political party leader) of the National Socialist German Workers'...
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  • Ernst Hahn from Crivitz, secretary Wilhelm Schneeweis from Schwerin, Ortsgruppenleiter Friedrich Jahnke from Parchim, Mayor Ernst Dubbe from Leussow, engineer...
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  • years. He joined the Nazi Party in July 1930 and subsequently became Ortsgruppenleiter and Mayor of Garching bei München. He completed his habilitation on...
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    would later be awarded the Golden Party Badge. From 1926, he was the Ortsgruppenleiter of the Party's local branch in Varel in the Free State of Oldenburg...
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  • Atlantic Wall; notorious for its use of conscript and slave labor. Ortsgruppenleiter – Nazi Party leader of a local branch. Orts-Uschla – the lowest level...
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    Youth in Lockstedt. He became a Parteiredner (party speaker) and the Ortsgruppenleiter (local group leader), advancing to Kreisleiter (district leader) in...
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    refounded by Hitler on 27 February 1925, and he again became the Ortsgruppenleiter (Local Group Leader) in Fürth. He officially rejoined the Party on...
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    re-enrolled on 1 January 1928 (membership number 72,741), became an Ortsgruppenleiter (local group leader) in 1929 and rejoined the SA in January 1931 with...
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    Joseph Goebbels and an SS-Hauptsturmführer Heinz Siepen, a Nazi Party Ortsgruppenleiter in Solingen and a Landrat in Reichsgau Wartheland Franz Six, head...
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