Reichsjugendführer
| National Youth Leader | |
|---|---|
| Reichsjugendführer | |
Reichsjugendführer gorget patch | |
Standard for the Reichsjugendführer | |
| Nazi Party | |
| Status | Abolished |
| Abbreviation | RJF |
| Member of | Hitler Youth |
| Appointer | Führer of the NSDAP |
| Formation | 1931 |
| First holder | Baldur von Schirach |
| Final holder | Artur Axmann |
| Abolished | 1945 |
| Deputy | Stabsführer |
Reichsjugendführer ("National Youth Leader") was the highest paramilitary rank of the Hitler Youth. On 30 October 1931, Hitler appointed Baldur von Schirach as the Reich Youth Leader of the Nazi Party. In 1933, after the Nazi seizure of state power, all youth organizations in Germany were brought under Schirach's control and he was designated the Jugendführer des Deutschen Reiches on 17 June. When Schirach was named Gauleiter of the Reichsgau Vienna on 8 August 1940, Artur Axmann succeeded him as Reichsjugendführer. Axmann had served as Schirach's deputy since 1 May 1940.