# Blockführer

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Nazi paramilitary rank

Not to be confused with [Blockältester](/source/Block%C3%A4ltester) or [Blockleiter](/source/Blockleiter).

[Report Leader](/source/Rapportf%C3%BChrer) Campe with six Block Leaders  during a roll call in [Sachsenhausen concentration camp](/source/Sachsenhausen_concentration_camp), 1936.

***Blockführer*** (Block Leader; female rank name: *Blockführerin*) was a paramilitary title specific to the [SS-Death's Head Units](/source/SS-Totenkopfverb%C3%A4nde) in Concentration Camp Service. An SS-Block Leader was typically in charge of prisoner barracks ranging from two hundred to three hundred [concentration camp](/source/Nazi_concentration_camps) prisoners; in larger camps, the number of prisoners could reach as high as a thousand. The Block Leader was in charge of daily attendance, supervising daily work details, and distributing rations to prisoners. Assisting in this case were several prisoner trustees, known as *[kapos](/source/Kapo_(concentration_camp))*. The position of Block Leader was usually held by an SS soldier holding the rank of [SS-Corporal](/source/Unterscharf%C3%BChrer) or non-commissioned officer rank of [SS-Sergeant](/source/Scharf%C3%BChrer).

In the Nazi death camps, the task of gassing prisoners with [Zyklon B](/source/Zyklon_B) was performed by a Block Leader.

A similar title, known as *[Blockleiter](/source/Blockleiter)* (Block Warden), also existed in the [Nazi Party](/source/Nazi_Party) political organization.

## References

## Sources

- Zentner, Christian & Bedürftig, Friedemann, *The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich*, (Macmillan), New York (1991)

v t e Paramilitary ranks of Nazi Germany Combat ranks Anwärter Schütze Oberschütze Sturmmann Rottenführer Unterscharführer Scharführer Oberscharführer Hauptscharführer Sturmscharführer Untersturmführer Obersturmführer Sturmhauptführer (until 1939) Hauptsturmführer Sturmbannführer Obersturmbannführer Standartenführer Oberführer Brigadeführer Gruppenführer Obergruppenführer Oberst-Gruppenführer Combat ranks Volkssturm Volkssturmmann Zugführer Kompanieführer Bataillonsführer Non-combat ranks Bewerber Aufseherin Mann Oberrottenführer HJ Staffelführer Truppführer Obertruppführer Haupttruppführer Sturmführer Blockführer Rapportführer Sonderführer Schutzhaftlagerführer Gauführer Untergruppenführer Stabsführer Reichsjugendführer Korpsführer Oberster SA-Führer Stabschef (SA) Reichsführer-SS Nazi Party ranks (NSDAP) Helfer Arbeitsleiter Bereitschaftsleiter Einsatzleiter Gemeinschaftsleiter Abschnittsleiter Bereichsleiter Dienstleiter Befehlsleiter Gauleiter Reichsleiter Admin position (NSDAP) Abteilungsleiter Amtsleiter Betriebsobmann Bezirksleiter Blockleiter Inspekteur Kreisleiter Mitarbeiter Ortsgruppenleiter Sonderbeauftragter Stellenleiter Stützpunktleiter Zellenleiter Reichsluftschutzbund (RLB) RLB-Präsident Organizations Nazi Party Sturmabteilung Schutzstaffel Allgemeine SS SS-Verfügungstruppe Waffen-SS SS-Totenkopfverbände Hitler Youth National Socialist Motor Corps National Socialist Flyers Corps Volkssturm

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