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''Blockleiter'' ((英語:Block Leader), derived from city block) from 1933 was the title of a lower Nazi Party political rank responsible for the political supervision of a neighborhood. Referred to in common parlance as ''Blockwart'' (Block Warden), the officials were in charge to form the link between the Nazi authorities and the general population. Up to today, the derogatory term ''Blockwart'' ("snoop") has survived in German colloquial language. ==History & Usage== The title of ''Blockleiter'' was first created in 1930 and was initially known as ''Blockwart''. The purpose of the ''Blockwart'' was to organize local support for elections during a time period when Nazis were attempting to gain both local and national political offices in the Weimar Republic. ''Blockwarte'' were organized by neighborhoods in German towns and cities, and answered to a "Cell Warden" known as the ''Zellenwart''. Typically, there were between eight to ten blocks in one cell. In 1933, when the Nazis came to power, the old political rank of ''Blockwart'' was phased out of the Nazi rank system to be replaced by a new rank known as ''Mitarbeiter''. It is at this point that the term ''Blockleiter'' was most often used, although not as an actual political rank but as a title for a ''Mitarbeiter'' assigned to the local level of the Nazi Party in charge of a local neighborhood or a street. Those ''Mitarbeiter'' assigned as ''Blockleiter'' now answered to an official known as a ''Zellenleiter''. ''Zellenleiter'', also itself a title and not an actual rank, was held by Nazis holding the political rank of ''Stellenleiter''. In 1939, with the establishment of a new array of Nazi Party political ranks, both ''Mitarbeiter'' and ''Blockleiter'' became political positions, denoted by special armbands. The organization of the Nazi ''Block'' unit now encompassed several positions; the complete array of ''Block'' titles were as follows: * ''Blockhelfer'' - Block Assistant * ''Blockleiter'' - Block Warden * ''Blockwalter'' - Block Administrator * ''Blockobmann'' - Block Foreman A special operations position known as ''Betriebsblockobmann'' also existed, but was to control the political attitudes and behaviour of managers and workers in war time production. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blockleiter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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