Feldjägerkorps

FJK

A shock formation of the SA, dissolved 1935 and incorporated into the Police.

Feldkommandantur

F.K.

Administrative H.A. in occupied countries (of regimental status)

Feldlazarett

Feldlaz.

Field hospital

Feldnachrichten-Kommandantur

Feldnachr.Kdtr.

Field signals command

Feldschalt-Abteilung

Feldschalt-Abt. z.b.V.

Special signals relay unit

Feld-Sonder-Bataillon

Feld-Sd.Btl.

Special penal battalion

Feld-Wasser-Strassen-Räum Abteilung

Feld-Wasser-Str.R.Abt.

Waterways clearing battalion

Feldwerkstatt

Feldwerkst.

Field workshop (ordnance)

Fernkabel-Bau-Abteilung

Fernkab.Bau-Abt.

Trunk-line telegraph construction unit

Fernschreibkompanie

Fernschreibkp.

Teleprint company

Feste-Nachrichten-Stelle

Feste-Nachr.Stelle

Static signals station

Festungs-Baubataillon

Fstgs.Baubtl.

Fortress construction battalion

Festungs-Bataillon

Fstgs.Btl.

Fortress battalion

Festungs-Nachrichten-Kommandantur

Fstgs.Nachr.Kdtr.

Fortress signals command

Festungs-Pionier-Abschnitt-Gruppe

Fstgs.Pi.Abschn.Gr.

Fortress engineer sector group

Festungs-Pionier-Kommandeur

Fstgs.Pi.Kdr.

Fortress engineer commander

FestungsPionier Park

Fstngs.Pi.Pk.

Fortress engineer park

Festungs-Pionier-Stab

Fstgs.Pi.St.

Fortress engineer staff

Festungs-Regiment

Fstgs.Rgt.

Fortress regiment

Feuerschutzpolizei

FSchp.

Fire Protection Police; a branch of the Orpo

Filmtrupp

Filmtr.

Film section

Filterkolonne

Filterkol.

Fördernde Mitglied der SS

F.M.

Sponsoring member of the SS paying monthly dues for that status; did not hold actual SS rank. In many cases the wives of SS officers held this title.

Freiherr

Frhr.

Baron (aristocratic title; eg: Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath)

freiwilligen

freiw.

Volunteer

Führer

Fhr.

Leader; commander; chief. The title "Der Führer" was only used in reference to Adolf Hitler.

Führerhauptquartier

FHQ

Hitler's Field Headquarters

für

for

Funk

Radio

Gau

Main territorial division of the NSDAP. There were 42 Gaue in the Reich and annexed territories, with a further 43rd Gau comprising the Auslandsorganisation (AO; Foreign Organization of the Nazi Party)

Gauleiter

GL

Highest ranking NSDAP official in a Gau, with responsibility for all matters of politics and econoomics, labor mobilization, and civil defense.

Gebirgs-Armee

Mountain Army; a formation of the German Army)

Gebirgs-Division

Geb.Div.

Mountain Division of the Heer or Waffen-SS

Gebirgs-Korps

Mountain Corps (a formation of the Heer or Waffen-SS)

Geheim

Geh.

Secret

Geheime Feldpolizei

GFP

Secret Field Police

Geheime Kommandosache

Geh.KdoS.

Secret Command matters; a very high security classification.

Geheime Reichssache

Geh.RchS.

Secret matter of National importance; highest security classification.

Geheimes Staatspolizei

Gestapo

Secret State Police; Amt IV of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt from 1939.

Gemeinde

Gem.

Municipality, community

Gemeindepolizei

Gem.Pol.

Municipal Police

genannt

gen.

Called; named; known as

Gendarmerie

Gend.

Rural police, including motorized traffic control units

Generalbevollmächtigter

Plenipotentiary General

Generalgouvernement

GG

The Government General - German-occupied Poland and the administration thereof under Dr. jur. Hans Frank.

Generalkommando

Gen.Kdo.

Headquarters of an Army Corps.

Generalquartiermeister des Heeres

Quartermaster-General of the German Army

Generalstab des Heeres

The German Army General Staff.

Germanische Leitstelle

Germanic Liaison Office of the SS-Hauptamt, responsible for supervision of Germanic SS.

Grenadier

Gren.

adj. : Infantry; n.: infantryman

Grenzpolizei

Grepo; GP

Frontier Police (a branch of the Gestapo)

Grenzpolizeiamt

GPA

Frontier Police Office

Grenzpolizei-Posten

Grepo

Frontier Police Outpost

Grenzpolizeikommissariat

Greko

Frontier Police Commissariat

Gross

Gr.

Great; large

hauptamtlich

(H)

full time; fully paid; professional

Hauptaussenstelle

HAuSt.; HASt.

Large branch office of the SD

Hilfspolizei

Hipo

Auxiliary Police

Hitler-Jugend

HJ

Hitler Youth organization

Höhere SS- und Polizeiführer

HSSPF

Higher and Police Leader

in; im

i.

in; in the

Infanterie-Division

Inf.Div.; I.D.

Infantry division

Infanterie-Regiment

Inf.Rgt.; I.R.

Infantry regiment

Inspekteur

Ing.

Engineer

Inspektor; Inspekteur

Insp.; I.

Inspector

Inspekteur der Ordnungspolizei

IdO

Original title for the BDO [see Befehlshaber der Ordnungspolizei]

Inspekteur der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienstes

IdS; Insp.d.Sipo u.d.SD

Inspector of the Security Police and Security Service

Internationale Kriminalpolizeiliche Kommission

IKPK

International Criminal Police Commission

Kaserne

Kas.

Barracks

Kavallerie

Kav.

Cavalry

Kavallerie-Division

Kav.Div.; K.D.

Cavalry division

Kavallerie-Regiment

Kav.Rgt.; K.R.

Cavalry regiment

Kommandant

Kdt.

commandant

Kommandantur

Kdtr.

Administrative HQ; Garrison HQ

Kommandeur

Kdr.

commander

Kommandeur der Bautruppen

Comander, construction troops

Kdr. der Bau-Tr.

Kommandeur der Kraftfahrparktruppen

Kdr. der Kf.Pk.Tr.

Commander, motor transport park troops

Kommandeur der Nachrichtentruppen

Kdr. der Nachr.Tr.

Commander, signals troops

Kommandeur der Ordnungspolizei

KdO

Commander of the uniformed police in a general commissariat; subordinate to the BdO.

Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des Sicherheitsdienstes

KdS

Kommando

Kdo.

Command; detachment; detail

kommissarisch

(k)

temporarily put in charge

Kompnaie

Komp.

Company

Konzentrationslager

KL (official abbr.); KZ (unofficial abbr.)

Concentration Camp

Kraft durch Freude

KdF

The Nazi "Strength through Joy" movement

Kreis

Kr.

District (US: County)

Kriegs-

K

war-; wartime

Kriminalpolizei

Kripo

Criminal Police; Amt V of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt from 1939.

Kriminalpolizei-Aussendienststelle

KPAuDSt.

Large branch office of the Kripo

Kriminalpolizei-Aussenposten

KPAuP.

Small branch office of the Kripo

Kriminalpolizei-Leitstelle

KPLSt.

Regional HQ of Kripo

Kriminalpolizeistelle

KPSt.

Sub-regional HQ of Kripo

Land

One of the 15 territorial divisions of Republican Germany, each with its own government. Controlled by the central Reich government through Reichsstatthalter from 1933.

(Kasernierte) Landespolizei

Lapo

State Police; Militarized Barrack Police Forces of the Lander; taken over by Reich after 1935 and placed under Wehrmacht control

Landwirtschaft

Landw.

Agriculture

Lebensborn e.V.

The "Fountain of Life" society, established by the SS in 1936. Attached to Pers. Stab RfSS and affiliated with the SS-RuSHA. Main functions of the society were adoption of "racially suitable" children for childless SS families, encouragement and facilitation of procreation between "Aryan" men and women, and the promotion of the racial policies of the SS.

Leitabschnitt

Regional HQ of the SD, approximately coinciding with a Wehrkreis.

Legationsrat

Leg.Rat

Legation or embassy counsellor in the Foreign Office.

Leitend(er)

Lt.

governing; leading; executive

Leitender Regierungsdirektor

LtRDir.

Title of an executive assistant in a high government office

Leiter

Ltr.

Chief

Leitstelle

Regional HQ of the Gestapo or Kripo, established at the HQ of a Wehrkreis or capital of a Land.

Luftschutzpolizei

LSP

Air raid protection police established in 1942 from personnel of the SHD and TeNo as an element of the Schutzpolizei. Recruited primarily from reservists of the Polizei.

Marine Küsten Polizei

MKP

Naval Coastal Police

Mark

Mk.

Region; province; also type

Militär; militärisch

Mil.; milit.

military

Minister

Min.

Minister

Ministerialblatt für die innere Verwaltung or Ministerialblatt des Reichs- und Preuss. Innenministeriums

MBliV

Official gazette of the Reich and Prussian Ministries of the Interior

Ministerialdirektor

MinDir.

A senior civil service official. Department head in a ministry with the approximate equivalent of Lt.-Gen..

Ministerialdirigent

MinDirig.

Executive official in a Ministry with the approximate equivalent ofMaj.-General.

Ministerialrat

MinRat

Senior ministerial counsellor in civil service; usually head of a section within a ministry; approximately equivalent to a Colonel.

Ministerpräsident

Min.Präs.

Minister-President; Prime Minister of a Land government (e.g> SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Dietrich Klagges of Braunschweig).

mit

m.

with

mit der Führung der Geschäfte beauftragt

m.d.F.d.G.b.

Temporarily charged with the conduct of affairs

mit der Führung beauftragt

m.d.F.b.

Temporarily charged with leadership

mit der vertretungsweisen Führung beauftragt

m.d.vertretungsw.F.b.

Temporarily charged with the conduct of affairs

mit der Wahrnehmung der Geschäfte beauftragt

m.d.W.d.G.b.

Temporarily charged with the conduct of affairs

Mitglied

Mitgl.

Member

Mitglied des Reichstages

M.d.R.

Member of the Reichstag

motorisiert

mot.

motorized

Nachrichten

N; Na.; Nachr.

Signals

Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalten

Napola

National Political Educational Instittues. Secondary schools organized along the lines of the Hitler-Jugend and under the jurisdiction of the Dienststelle Heissmeyer (under SS-Obergruppenfuhrer August Heissmeyer)

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei

NSDAP

National-Socialist German Workers' Party

Nationalsozialistische-Fliegerkorps

NSFK

NS Flying Corps. Led by NSFK-Korpsfuhrer/General der Flieger Christiansen until 1943, then by NSFK-Korpsfuhrer / Generaloberst Alfred Keller until 1945.

Nationalsozialistische-Kraftfahrkorps

NSKK

NS Motor Corps. Led by NSKK-Korpsfuhrer Adolf Huhnlein until his death in 1942, then by NSKK-Korpsfuhrer Erwin Krauss until 1945. Played an important role in the military and paramilitary training.

Nationalsozialistische Volkswohlfahrt

NSV

National-Socialist People's Welfare Organization, primarily responsible for the care of mothers and juveniles and headed by SS-Gruppenfuhrer Erich Hilgenfeldt).

Nord

N

north

Nordost

NO

northeast