# Bezirksleiter

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*Bezirksleiter* armband, 1930–33

***Bezirksleiter*** (District Leader) was a [Nazi Party](/source/Nazi_Party) title which was used in the early years of the Party's existence, beginning around 1926.

## History

The position of *Bezirksleiter* was originally established around 1926 as the next higher organizational official overseeing several local branches (*Ortsgruppen*) of the Party. As such, the *Bezirksleiter* served as the intermediary between the local Party heads (*[Ortsgruppenleiter](/source/Ortsgruppenleiter)*) and the head of the [Gau](/source/Administrative_divisions_of_Nazi_Germany) organization (*[Gauleiter](/source/Gauleiter)*). The number of *Bezirkleiters* in each Gau, if any, depended on the size of the Gau, and their jurisdictions were not necessarily coterminous with existing governmental units.

At a January 1929 Party Conference held in [Weimar](/source/Weimar), [Gregor Strasser](/source/Gregor_Strasser), the *Reichsorganisationsleiter*, authorized the *Gauleiters* to subdivide their Gaue into districts if the organizational strength of the Gau justified this change.[1] The subdivisions were based on the *[Kreis](/source/Districts_of_Germany)*, the standard administrative unit existing in the German States, roughly analogous to a [county](/source/County). With this organizational restructuring, the *Bezirksleiter* began to be phased out, to be replaced by the *[Kreisleiter](/source/Kreisleiter)* as the standardized intermediate administrative level between the *Gauleitung* (Gau leadership) and the local Party branches.

Many of the early *Bezirksleiters* advanced to the position of *Gauleiter*, such as [Franz Schwede](/source/Franz_Schwede), [Gustav Simon](/source/Gustav_Simon), [Jakob Sprenger](/source/Jakob_Sprenger), [Josef Terboven](/source/Josef_Terboven) and [Karl Wahl](/source/Karl_Wahl) to name but a few.[2]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Orlow, Dietrich: The History of the Nazi Party: 1919-1933 (University of Pittsburgh Press), 1969, p. 145. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-8229-3183-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-8229-3183-4).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Michael D. Miller & Andreas Schulz: Gauleiter: The Regional Leaders of the Nazi Party and Their Deputies, 1925-1945, Volume 3 (Fritz Sauckel – Hans Zimmermann), Fonthill Media, 2021, pp. 231; 248; 283; 438; 608. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1-781-55826-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-781-55826-3).

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