Blockführer

Blockführer (Block Leader; female rank name: Blockführerin) was a paramilitary title specific to the SS-Death's Head Units in Concentration Camp Service.

An SS-Block Leader was typically in charge of prisoner barracks ranging from two hundred to three hundred concentration camp prisoners; in larger camps, the number of prisoners could reach as high as a thousand.

The position of Block Leader was usually held by an SS soldier holding the rank of SS-Corporal or non-commissioned officer rank of SS-Sergeant.

In the Nazi death camps, the task of gassing prisoners with Zyklon B was performed by a Block Leader.

A similar title, known as Blockleiter (Block Warden), also existed in the Nazi Party political organization.