SOriginal Item: Only One Available. NSDAP Political Leader Uniform Zellenleiter (Cell Leader) including jacket, armband, and trousers. The brown wool twill tunic bears collar tabs indicating that the owner, was at the party’s Zellenleiter level. Zellenleiter (Cell Leader) was a NSDAP Party political title which existed between the years of 1930 and 1945. A Zellenleiter was higher in rank than a Blockleiter and was in charge of a "NSDAP Cell", composed of eight to twelve city blocks.  

All buttons are present: four for closing the garment, one each for the four front pockets, and two at the top of the rear vent. The NSDAP Political Leader Uniform is fully lined within, with RZM label sewn indie left chest pocket. Offered in very good condition.

Approximate jacket measurements:
Collar to shoulder: 10”
Shoulder to sleeve: 25”
Shoulder to shoulder: 18”
Chest width: 20”
Waist width: 19”
Hip width: 24”
Front length: 29”

NSDAP wool armband that was once sewn to the left sleeve.

The matching brown twill wool pants are also present. They bear a three-button fly closure with laced closing the tapered ankles of each pant leg. Two diagonal front pockets with buttoned flaps are present and one similar horizontal pocket is situated on the right rear. The pants are in excellent condition.

History and Usage
The position of Zellenleiter was first created in 1930 as a mid-level political leadership title. Originally known as Zellenwart, in 1933 after the NSDAPs came to power, the rank of Zellenwart was replaced by a new rank known as Stellenleiter. It was the Stellenleiters, on the local level of the NSDAP Party encompassing German towns and cities, who held the positional title of Zellenleiter, and were often referred to as such in contrast to their actual political rank. Such persons answered to an official known as an Ortsgruppenleiter, considered the chief NSDAP in a municipal region.

In 1939, the NSDAP Party completed revamped its political ranking system and created a plethora of new NSDAP Party political ranks and the title of Zellenleiter was adopted into its final form. Holders of the position now held a standard NSDAP political rank (normally Bereitschaftsleiter or Einsatzleiter) while also displaying a political armband denoting their position as a Zellenleiter. There were also three primary Zellenleiter positions, these being:

- Zellenleiter (Cell Leader)
- Zellenwalter (Cell Administrator)
- Zellenobmann (Cell Foreman)

Two special positions, known as Betriebszellenobmann and Hauptbetriebszellenobmann also existed, but were more focused on war production duties rather than the NSDAP Cell command chain.

Duties
The original political rank of Zellenwart was used to supervise local NSDAP political leaders during a time when the NSDAP Party was attempting to gain power in the Weimar Republic. After the establishment of NSDAP Germany in 1933, the political position of Zellenleiter became a type of political strongman and was usually the highest NSDAP official that the general population would have direct dealings with on a day-to-day basis.

During World War II, the Zellenleiters oversaw the activities of the Blockleiters under their command. Primary focus was on the enforcement of NSDAP policies, the promulgation of war production, and the administration of civil relief efforts, especially towards the end of the war when Germany was invaded. As defeat loomed for NSDAP Germany, many Zellenleiters became associated with the Volksturm and served as ad hoc military commanders when the need arose.