NSDAP membership booklet - Blockleiter official, Rudolf Hess reference

Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei Mitgliedsbuch (NSDAP membership ID booklet), 1935 version, issued to Nikolaus Göthinger. He joined the Nazi party on August 1st 1933 and was given the membership number of 2 690 666 (the membership numbers eventually surpassed 8.5 million by 1945). This particular ID booklet was issued to him in March of 1939 (certified at Nazi party headquarters in Munich, with a facsimile signature of Hitler). It contains membership payment stamps from 1938 to the end of 1944, as well as individual stamps for special contributions to the Reichsparteitag event in 1938 and 1939. 48 pages, typical hardcover booklet, with the expected authorization stamps throughout and quite a few pages of rules, regulations and NSDAP history. 

This particular example is fairly uncommon because it contains additional stamps and entries that specify that Göthinger held the office of Blockleiter in the Ortsgruppe Hühnerfeld, in the Saar region. He served as a Blockleiter from August 1936 to July 1943. The NSDAP rank of Blockleiter (literally Bloc / neighborhood warden) was a junior official rank, more or less corresponding to the officer rank of lieutenant in military terms. He appears to have left this office because he moved to two different locations in Germany in 1943-44 (there are NSDAP unit transfer stamps and entries that confirm this, he joined Ortsgruppe in Falkenberg and a town in Westfalen-Süd). 

There is an additional stamp and entry (on page 11) stating that Göthinger took the Hitler oath in the presence of Rudolf Hess, acting as Stellvertreters des Führers / Stellv. D. Führers (Deputy Führer), on Hitler’s birthday in 1936 (April 20th). This was taken in the city of Saarbrücken. 

Very collectible item, the reference to Rudolf Hess and the fact that he was a longtime local official in the Nazi party makes it fairly rare and desirable.