SS-Gruppenführer
Also known as Gruppenführer
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Key facts
- Military rank.name
- Gruppenführer
- Military rank.image
- 150px
- Military rank.caption
- Post April 1942 gorget patch
- Military rank.caption2
- Shoulder and camo insignia
- Military rank.service branch
- Schutzstaffel Sturmabteilung National Socialist Motor Corps National Socialist Flyers Corps
- Military rank.abbreviation
- Gruf
- Military rank.rank
- Two-Star
- Military rank.NATO rank
- OF-7
- Military rank.Non NATO rank
- O-8
- Military rank.formation
- 1925
- Military rank.abolished
- 1945
- Military rank.higher rank
- Obergruppenführer
Article
4 sectionsContents
- History
- Insignia
- See also
- References
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Gruppenführer (, ) was an early paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party (NSDAP), first created in 1925 as a senior rank of the SA. Since then, the term Gruppenführer is also used for leaders of groups/teams of the police, fire departments, military and several other organizations.