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Helfer
Helper

Country|  Nazi Germany
Service branch|

* German Red Cross
* Nazi Party

Rank| Paramilitary rank
Formation| 1938
Abolished| 1945
Next lower rank| Anwärter

Helfer (transl. Helper) was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party between the years of 1938 and 1945. The Nazi rank of Helfer was a junior position of the Political Leadership Corps, ranking only above Anwärter. A Helfer in the Nazi Party typically served as a junior assistant to a higher official. The rank was created at first to replace the older Nazi rank of Blockleiter; however, a massive expansion of Nazi Party ranks in 1938 assigned the old duties of a Blockleiter to a rank known as Arbeitsleiter. The rank of Helfer then became an assistant position to such higher ranks.

The insignia for a Helfer consisted of a brown collar patch with an eagle and swastika, and one or two stripes on the lower portion of the collar tab. A single stripe denoted the rank of Helfer while two stripes denoted the higher position of Oberhelfer. The rank of Helfer was also common in Nazi student groups, typically held by the leader of a local student cell who answered to a local Nazi Party leader. In the film “Die Weiße Rose”, a character known as “Studentenführer”, holds the rank of Helfer. The Nazi rank of Helfer ceased to exist in 1945.

## Insignia

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Rank group |  |

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German Red Cross[1][2] |  |  |  |  |  |
DRK-Haupthelfer
(mit Zugführer Prüfung) | DRK-Haupthelfer | DRK-Oberhelfer | DRK-Vorhelfer
(mit Gruppenführer Prüfung) | DRK-Vorhelfer | DRK-Helfer
Nazi Party[3] |  |  |  |
Oberhelfer | Helfer

## References

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1. ^ Verlag Moritz Ruhl 1942, Table 14.
2. ^ Davis 1980, p. 223.
3. ^ CIA 1999, pp. 25–26.

* CIA (24 August 1999). "Records Integration Title Book" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on January 23, 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2018.
* Davis, Brian Leigh (1980). German Uniforms of the Third Reich 1933-1945 (1st ed.). Poole, Dorset: Blandford Press. ISBN 0-7137-0881-6.
* Verlag Moritz Ruhl (1942). Deutsche Uniformen (in German). Leipzig: Verlag Moritz Ruhl.

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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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