German NSDAP Zellenleiter Orts Level – Administrative Collar Tab Insignia

A used German NSDAP Zellenleiter Orts level administrative collar tab. Uniform removed.

The NSDAP, Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, (National Socialist German Worker’s Party), was originally founded in Munich as the DAP, Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, (German Worker’s Party), on January 5TH 1919. When Adolf Hitler joined the DAP in the autumn of 1919 he was to reform what was basically a debating society into an active political party. Appointed as the first chairman of the party on July 29TH 1921 Hitler was to restructure it along para-military lines in a hierarchy of four levels. In November 1926 the brown shirt “Traditions” uniform was officially introduced and in 1933 a series of collar tabs were established to identify the rank/position of the wearer. The political leader’s collar tabs were to under go four modifications between 1933 and 1939 with some overlapping patterns. This collar tabs is a second pattern Blockleiter, (Block Leaders), tabs as introduced in 1934 and worn until 1936.