{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.ortsgruppenleiter","code":"thing-q3356832","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q3356832/","name":"Ortsgruppenleiter","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.LIV"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"An Ortsgruppenleiter was the official heading an Ortsgruppe, or local branch, of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP), subordinate to the Kreisleiter and responsible for local party organisation and political supervision.","purpose":"Enable an agent to identify an Ortsgruppenleiter as a historically situated NSDAP local leadership role, establish its holder and jurisdiction, and assess documented authority and conduct.","scope":{"in":["Identification of the title in its organizational and historical context","Appointment, tenure, replacement and acting appointments","The Ortsgruppe territory and its relationship to the party hierarchy","Prescribed responsibilities and documented exercise of local party authority","Evidence linking particular actions and decisions to a holder in this role"],"out":["The complete biography of an individual officeholder","The Ortsgruppe as an organization with its own membership and assets","Municipal government and the Bürgermeister office","The complete NSDAP rank and insignia system","Standalone models of persecution events, victims or judicial proceedings","Unrelated organizations using the same German leadership title"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["The record identifies leadership of an NSDAP Ortsgruppe; the German title alone does not establish that organizational affiliation.","The role belongs to the local party hierarchy and is subordinate to the Kreisleiter in the consulted organizational extract. [NSDAP Organization Book extract, document 1893-PS](https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/documents/812-extracts-from-the-organization?mode=text)","Its territory need not equal a municipality: the consulted extract allows multiple communities within an Ortsgruppe and subdivisions within towns. [NSDAP Organization Book extract](https://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu/documents/812-extracts-from-the-organization?mode=text)","A person, their appointment to this office and any separately held party rank require distinct records.","Holding a municipal office does not by itself establish an Ortsgruppenleiter appointment; any overlap requires evidence for both roles."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"title-and-officeholding","name":"Title and officeholding","description":"Establish which historical office a title denotes and who occupied it at a given time.","layers":[{"id":"nsdap-role-identification","name":"NSDAP role identification","description":"Resolve the title against its organizational setting and distinguish office from rank.","findings":[{"id":"title-in-organizational-context","name":"Title in organizational context","description":"Record the original wording, named Ortsgruppe, date and organizational context before normalizing the occurrence to this registry entry.","questions":[{"text":"What evidence identifies this Ortsgruppenleiter as the leader of an NSDAP Ortsgruppe?","id":"title-in-organizational-context-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Does the source describe an office, a personal rank, an informal designation or a translated title?","id":"title-in-organizational-context-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"appointment-and-succession","name":"Appointment and succession","description":"Establish the holder's capacity and the limits of their tenure.","findings":[{"id":"dated-officeholding","name":"Dated officeholding","description":"Represent appointment, acting service, replacement and termination as evidenced changes; keep document dates distinct from effective dates.","questions":[{"text":"Which appointment order or other record establishes the person's capacity and effective start date?","id":"dated-officeholding-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What evidence establishes the end of tenure, interruption or transfer to a successor?","id":"dated-officeholding-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]}]},{"id":"ortsgruppe-territory-and-hierarchy","name":"Ortsgruppe territory and hierarchy","description":"Locate the office within dated territorial and organizational boundaries.","layers":[{"id":"local-party-territory","name":"Local party territory","description":"Identify the geographic extent of the particular Ortsgruppe.","findings":[{"id":"historical-territorial-assignment","name":"Historical territorial assignment","description":"Record the Ortsgruppe name, boundary evidence and changes needed to associate places with the office at the relevant date.","questions":[{"text":"Which settlements, streets or mapped boundaries define this Ortsgruppe at the date under examination?","id":"historical-territorial-assignment-q01","kind":"measurement"},{"text":"Where does its territory diverge from contemporary municipal boundaries?","id":"historical-territorial-assignment-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"party-command-relationships","name":"Party command relationships","description":"Establish the superior and subordinate organizational links applicable to this office.","findings":[{"id":"dated-hierarchy","name":"Dated hierarchy","description":"Link the office to its Kreisleitung and evidenced local cell and block organization, distinguishing formal reporting rules from particular communications.","questions":[{"text":"Which Kreisleiter or Kreisleitung supervised this Ortsgruppe during the relevant tenure?","id":"dated-hierarchy-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which records establish the local Zellenleiter and Blockleiter relationships and their reporting routes?","id":"dated-hierarchy-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"authority-and-local-practice","name":"Authority and local practice","description":"Describe applicable duties and establish how local party authority was exercised.","layers":[{"id":"prescribed-local-party-duties","name":"Prescribed local party duties","description":"Identify period-specific responsibilities and channels of instruction.","findings":[{"id":"rules-versus-performance","name":"Rules versus performance","description":"Attach claimed duties to dated organizational texts and separately record evidence of their execution. The consulted prosecution compilation discusses political supervision and local reporting, but is not evidence of every holder's conduct. [Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Leadership Corps chapter](https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/chap15_part02.asp)","questions":[{"text":"Which dated rule or directive assigned the specific political, organizational or reporting duty to the Ortsgruppenleiter?","id":"rules-versus-performance-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"What local evidence shows whether and how the holder carried out that duty?","id":"rules-versus-performance-q02","kind":"action"}]}]},{"id":"municipal-and-institutional-interfaces","name":"Municipal and institutional interfaces","description":"Examine relationships with municipal authorities, police and other party bodies without presuming identical jurisdictions.","findings":[{"id":"authority-at-the-interface","name":"Authority at the interface","description":"Distinguish formal competence, requests, political pressure, cooperation and action taken through a separately held office.","questions":[{"text":"Was the holder acting as Ortsgruppenleiter, Bürgermeister or in another documented capacity in this interaction?","id":"authority-at-the-interface-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"Which records show whether the other institution received an order, a request, a report or political pressure?","id":"authority-at-the-interface-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"conduct-and-evidential-assessment","name":"Conduct and evidential assessment","description":"Connect the office to documented conduct while preserving uncertainty and the status of retrospective findings.","layers":[{"id":"event-linked-conduct","name":"Event-linked conduct","description":"Record concrete involvement in local actions, including denunciation, exclusion, coercion or persecution where evidenced.","findings":[{"id":"specific-act-attribution","name":"Specific act attribution","description":"Link an identified holder to a dated action and affected people or institutions, distinguishing ordering, transmitting, participating, witnessing and alleged involvement.","questions":[{"text":"What specific action is attributed to the holder, and which evidence establishes the date and capacity in which they acted?","id":"specific-act-attribution-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Does the evidence establish an instruction, participation, knowledge or an allegation, and what remains unproven?","id":"specific-act-attribution-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"source-conflicts-and-retrospective-findings","name":"Source conflicts and retrospective findings","description":"Evaluate conflicting records and distinguish historical evidence from allegations and adjudicated findings.","findings":[{"id":"claim-specific-evidence-review","name":"Claim-specific evidence review","description":"Preserve source authorship, date, purpose and evidential status; attach any judicial or denazification finding to the particular proceeding and person.","questions":[{"text":"How do contemporary party records, testimony and retrospective accounts agree or conflict about this officeholder?","id":"claim-specific-evidence-review-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which conclusions are established by a cited proceeding, and which remain allegations or historical interpretations?","id":"claim-specific-evidence-review-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-confidence-notes","name":"Check these first","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Ortsgruppenleiter this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-confidence-notes-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Ortsgruppenleiter this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards","name":"Failure modes and hazards","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Ortsgruppenleiter this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-regional-variation","name":"Regional variation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of Ortsgruppenleiter this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-regional-variation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-neighbours","name":"Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Ortsgruppenleiter this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-neighbours-q01","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Explain what an Ortsgruppenleiter was and how the office fitted in the Nazi party hierarchy, citing historical sources.","Support archival research and education about local Nazi structures and their victims.","Identify historical officeholders from verified archival records."],"mustNot":["Glorify, promote or recreate the Nazi party, its offices or its ideology.","Help produce or spread propaganda, symbols or recruitment material for extremist movements.","Name a person as a former Ortsgruppenleiter without verified evidence.","Deny or downplay the role of local party officials in persecution."],"requiresHuman":["Publishing personal details of officeholders' living descendants."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Local party officials took part in surveillance, denunciation and persecution; history must be told accurately.","Families of officeholders and of victims are both affected by how records are used."],"affectedParties":["Victims and their descendants","Descendants of officeholders","Historians and educators"]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody: a historical office; archives and historians hold its records.","roles":[],"masterSystems":["National and regional archives","Denazification records"]},"relations":[{"target":"Q88190406","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.ortsgruppenleiter","Wikidata: Q3356832 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3356832)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"required","items":["Organizational attribution: Named NSDAP Ortsgruppe and supporting identification evidence; unresolved attribution","Officeholder and capacity: Person linked as substantive holder, acting holder, deputy exercising delegated duties or uncertain attribution","Tenure interval: Start and end dates with precision, uncertainty and supporting evidence","Appointment basis: Appointing authority, appointment document, effective date and applicable organizational rules","Territorial competence: Dated Ortsgruppe territory, included settlements or streets, and boundary evidence","Party reporting relationships: Dated superior Kreisleitung and evidenced subordinate or associated party units","Separate offices and party rank: Independently evidenced municipal offices, other party functions and dated personal rank","Activity attribution: Prescribed duty; documented instruction; documented execution; reported conduct; disputed attribution","Evidence status: Supported; corroborated; contested; unresolved; with source and claim-specific reasoning"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"required","items":["Appears in historical party documents and photographs with party uniform insignia of local officials."]},"capabilities":{"applicability":"required","items":["Classify a historical title occurrence against the NSDAP role while retaining ambiguous matches for review.","Reconstruct a dated succession of officeholders for a particular Ortsgruppe.","Determine whether an address or event lay within the holder's documented territorial competence.","Trace a documented instruction or report through the local party hierarchy.","Compare prescribed duties with evidenced actions and identify unsupported attribution.","Link the role to independently modeled people, organizations, events and proceedings."]},"hazards":{"applicability":"required","items":["Historical material on the office can be misused by extremist groups.","Wrongful attribution of the office can defame people and families."]},"interfaces":{"applicability":"required","items":["German Criminal Code, section 86a, on the use of symbols of unconstitutional organisations, Federal Republic of Germany."]},"context":{"applicability":"required","items":["The role is encountered in historical records of Nazi Party organisation and local political control.","Identifying an officeholder and the relevant local branch helps reconstruct chains of authority, participation in persecution and relations with municipal institutions.","Archives, museums and historical research use the title to contextualise documents and conduct within the Nazi regime."]}},"sources":[{"title":"Wikidata item Q3356832: Ortsgruppenleiter","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3356832","note":"identity and sense of the item"},{"title":"Wikipedia: Ortsgruppenleiter","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortsgruppenleiter","note":"general description of the item"}],"openQuestions":["Does the registry's underlying source confirm the NSDAP-specific meaning, or was the entry intended to cover the title in other organizations?","When did the designation emerge, and how did its relationship to personal party rank change across organizational revisions?","Which appointment procedure applied in each period? The consulted organizational extract names the Kreisleiter, while the prosecution compilation names the Gauleiter; their dates and contexts require reconciliation.","Which eligibility requirements, training expectations and paid or honorary service arrangements applied in different periods and localities?","How did formal responsibilities and actual influence vary between ordinary localities, wartime settings and territories under different administrative arrangements?"],"resources":{"spec":"/models/things/publications/thing-q3356832/spec.json"},"provenance":{"origin":"thing registry research (pass 2)","builtFrom":["models/things/publications/thing-q3356832/spec.json"],"providers":["Codex"],"researchStatus":"unreviewed","generatedAt":"2026-09-12T11:48:38Z","builder":"tools/build_cards.py@1.0.0"},"completeness":{"sections":{"classifiers":"filled","whatItIs":"filled","purpose":"filled","distinguishingFeatures":"filled","structure":"filled","agentConduct":"filled","ethics":"filled","owners":"filled","relations":"filled","interaction.identity":"filled","interaction.properties":"filled","interaction.recognition":"filled","interaction.capabilities":"filled","interaction.hazards":"filled","interaction.interfaces":"filled","interaction.context":"filled","sources":"filled"},"notes":{"_gate":"Published through the thing publication gate 1.0 on 2026-10-07T10:10:30+00:00: completeness 1.00; sense: Wikidata description; 2 live sources; review by codex: pass"},"score":1.0}}