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 Hitler Youth paramilitary rank held by the senior most member of the Adult Leadership Corps.

Staff Leader Stabsführer
Standards for the Stabsführer of HJ, NSFK, NSKK and SA
Nazi Party
Status	Abolished
Member of	Hitler Youth National Socialist Flyers Corps National Socialist Motor Corps Sturmabteilung
Reports to	Reichsjugendführer (HJ) Korpsführer (NSFK) Korpsführer (NSKK) Stabschef (SA)
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

Hitler Youth

Hitler Youth Stabsführer should insignia

No.	Portrait	Stabsführer	Took office	Left office	Time in office
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

No.		Stabsführer	Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Obergruppenführer Gerhard Sporleder (1893–?)	1936	1940	3–4 years
2		Obergruppenführer Karl Sauke (1897–1958)	1940	1945	4–5 years

NSKK

No.		Stabsführer	Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Obergruppenführer Josef Seydel (1887–1945)	1935	10 April 1945 †	9–10 years

SA

No.		Stabsführer	Took office	Left office	Time in office
1		Obergruppenführer Otto Herzog (1900–1945)	1 May 1936	6 May 1945 †	9 years, 5 days

References

1. Yerger, Mark C. (1997). Allgemeine-SS. Atglen, PA: Schiffer Publishing. pp. 82, 117.

See also

• Stabschef