List of Gauleiters
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The following List of Gauleiters enumerates those who have held the German political rank of Gauleiter
Gauleiter
A Gauleiter was the party leader of a regional branch of the NSDAP or the head of a Gau or of a Reichsgau.-Creation and Early Usage:...

, most often associated with Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...

.
  • Auslands-Organisation der NSDAP (NSDAP/AO
    NSDAP/AO
    The NSDAP/AO was the Foreign Organization branch of the National Socialist German Workers Party . AO is the abbreviation of the German compound word Auslands-Organisation...

    )
    • Hans Nieland
      Hans Nieland
      Hans Heinrich Nieland was a politician of the German Nazi-Party and Lord Mayor of Dresden from 1940 until 1945.- Life :...

       (1930–1933)
    • Ernst Wilhelm Bohle
      Ernst Wilhelm Bohle
      Ernst Wilhelm Bohle was the leader of the Foreign Organization of the German Nazi Party from 1933 until 1945.-Early life:...

       (1933–1945)
  • Gau Baden, Gauleiter:
    • Robert Heinrich Wagner
      Robert Heinrich Wagner
      Robert Heinrich Wagner was Gauleiter of Baden and Head of the Civil Government of Alsace during the German occupation of France in World War II....

       (25 March 1925 – May 1945)

  • Gau Bayerische Ostmark (Bavarian Eastern March) [Bayerische Ostmark was founded in 1933 when Oberfranken, Niederbayern & Oberpfalz merged. It was renamed Gau Bayreuth after its capital in 1943], Gauleiter:
    • Hans Schemm
      Hans Schemm
      Hans Schemm was a Gauleiter in Nazi Germany.-Life:Schemm, whose parents ran a shoemaker's shop, first went to a Volksschule for five years and then as of 1905 a teaching seminary. In 1915 he got married; in 1917 a son was born...

       (1933–1935)

  • Gau Berlin, Gauleiter:
    • Joseph Goebbels
      Joseph Goebbels
      Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism...

       (1929–1945)

  • Gau Berlin - Brandenburg [Gau Berlin - Brandenburg was divided into Berlin & Brandenburg 1929], Gauleiter:
    • Ernst Schlange (1925–1926)
    • Joseph Goebbels
      Joseph Goebbels
      Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism...

       (1926–1929)

  • Gau Brandenburg (the historical nucleus of the Prussian kingdom) [Gau Brandenburg was made a part of Kurmark 1933], Gauleiter:
    • Emil Holz (1929–1930)
    • Ernst Schlange (1930–1933)

  • Gau Danzig (Danzig; former free state, lost after the war to Poland, now Gdańsk
    Gdansk
    Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...

    ) [Gau Danzig was known as Gau Danzig - Westpreussen after 1939], Gauleiter:
    • Hans-Albert Hohnfeldt (1926–1928)
    • Walter Maaß (1928–1930)
    • Albert Forster
      Albert Forster
      Albert Maria Forster was a Nazi German politician. Under his administration as the Gauleiter of Danzig-West Prussia during the Second World War, the local non-German population suffered ethnic cleansing, mass murder, and forceful Germanisation...

       (1930–1945)

  • Gau Düsseldorf [Gau Düsseldorf was founded in 1929 from the bezirk Bergisches - Land], Gauleiter:
    • Friedrich Karl Florian
      Friedrich Karl Florian
      Friedrich Karl Florian was the Gauleiter of Düsseldorf in Nazi Germany.He worked as Gauleiter of the Düsseldorf Gau from 1 January 1930 to 8 May 1945 – eight days after Adolf Hitler's death....

       (1929–1945)

  • Gau Essen, Gauleiter:
    • Josef Terboven
      Josef Terboven
      Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven was a Nazi leader, best known as the Reichskommissar during the German occupation of Norway.-Early life:...

       (1928–1945)
      • Acting Gauleiter: Fritz Schlessmann (April 1940 – May 1945)

  • Gau Flandern
    Reichsgau Flandern
    The Reichsgau Flanders was a short-lived Reichsgau of Nazi Germany established in 1944. It encompassed the present-day Flemish Region in its old provincial borders, so including Comines-Warneton but excluding Voeren...

    , Gauleiter:
    • Jef van de Wiele
      Jef van de Wiele
      Fredegardus Jacobus Josephus van de Wiele was a Belgian Flemish Nazi politician.-Nazism:...

       (December 1944 – April 1945) (in exile in Germany)

  • Gau Franken (Franconia
    Franconia
    Franconia is a region of Germany comprising the northern parts of the modern state of Bavaria, a small part of southern Thuringia, and a region in northeastern Baden-Württemberg called Tauberfranken...

    ) [Gau Franken was founded in 1929 when Mittelfranken merged with the bezirk Nürnberg - Fürth], Gauleiter:
    • Julius Streicher
      Julius Streicher
      Julius Streicher was a prominent Nazi prior to World War II. He was the founder and publisher of Der Stürmer newspaper, which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine...

       (1929–1940)
    • Hans Zimmermann (1940–1941)
    • Karl Holz
      Karl Holz (Gauleiter)
      Karl Holz was the NSDAP Gauleiter of Gau Franconia and an SA Gruppenführer.He was the fifth child born to a heliographer also named Karl Holz and finished Volksschule and an apprenticeship as a salesman, working thereafter as a clerk.Between 1915 and 1918 he served at the front in the First World...

       (1942–1945)
      • Acting Gauleiter: Karl Holz
        Karl Holz (Gauleiter)
        Karl Holz was the NSDAP Gauleiter of Gau Franconia and an SA Gruppenführer.He was the fifth child born to a heliographer also named Karl Holz and finished Volksschule and an apprenticeship as a salesman, working thereafter as a clerk.Between 1915 and 1918 he served at the front in the First World...

         (1940 – April 1945)

  • Gau Halle - Merseburg, Gauleiter:
    • Walter Ernst (1925–1926)
    • Paul Hinkler (1926–1930)
    • Rudolf Jordan
      Rudolf Jordan
      Rudolf Jordan was a Nazi Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt in the time of the Third Reich....

       (1930–1937)
    • Joachim Albrecht Eggeling
      Joachim Albrecht Eggeling
      Joachim Albrecht Leo Eggeling was the Nazi Gauleiter of Saxony and Anhalt and the High President of the Province of Halle-Merseburg.Eggeling was born in Blankenburg am Harz, Province of Saxony...

       (1938–1945)

  • Gau Hamburg, Gauleiter:
    • Josef Klant (1925–1926)
    • Albert Krebs
      Albert Krebs
      Albert Krebs was the Nazi Gauleiter in Hamburg in the time of the Third Reich.Krebs, a higher archive official's son, did his Abitur in 1917 after finishing school at the Gymnasium in Aschaffenburg and thereafter reported to the military as a volunteer...

       (1927–1928)
    • Hinrich Lohse
      Hinrich Lohse
      Hinrich Lohse was a Nazi German politician, best known for his World War II rule of the Baltic states.-Early life:...

       (1928–1929)
    • Karl Kaufmann
      Karl Kaufmann
      - External links :* in Der Deutsche Reichstag, Wahlperiode nach d. 30. Jan. 1933, Bd.: 1938, Berlin, 1938...

       (1929–1945)

  • Gau Hannover - Nord [Gau Hannover - Nord became a part of Südhannover - Braunschweig 1928], Gauleiter:
    • Bernhard Rust
      Bernhard Rust
      Dr. Bernhard Rust was Minister of Science, Education and National Culture in Nazi Germany. A combination of school administrator and zealous Nazi, he issued decrees, often bizarre, at every level of the German educational system to immerse German youth in the National Socialist philosophy...

       (1925–1928)

  • Gau Hannover - Sud [Gau Hannover - Sud became a part of Südhannover - Braunschweig 1928], Gauleiter:
    • Ludolf Haase (1927–1928)

  • Gau Hessen - Darmstadt [Gau Hessen - Darmstadt became a part of Hessen - Nassau 1933], Gauleiter:
    • Friedrich Ringhausen (1927–1931)
    • Peter Gmeinder (1931)
    • Karl Benz (1932–1933)

  • Gau Hessen - Nassau [Gau Hessen - Nassau was founded 1933 when Hessen - Darmstadt merged with Hessen - Nassau - Sud], Gauleiter:
    • Jakob Sprenger
      Jakob Sprenger
      Jakob Sprenger was a Nazi politician.Sprenger was born in Oberhausen near Bad Bergzabern in the Palatinate. In 1922, the postal inspector Sprenger became a member of the Nazi Party...

       (1933–1945)

  • Gau Hessen - Nassau-Nord (Hesses- Northern Nassau) [Hessen - Nassau - Nord was known as Gau Kurhessen after 1934], Gauleiter:
    • Walter Schultz (1926–1927)
    • Karl Weinrich
      Karl Weinrich
      Karl Weinrich Karl Weinrich Karl Weinrich (2 December 1887 in Molmeck – 22 July 1973 in Hausen was NSDAP Gauleiter of Kurhessen.Karl Weinrich was a member of the Nazi Party from August 1922. From 1925 to 1927 he was the NSDAP's Gau Treasurer. From 1930 to 1933 he was a member of the Prussian...

       (1927 - autumn 1943)
    • Acting Gauleiter: Karl Gerland
      Karl Gerland
      Karl Gerland was a Nazi Gauleiter of Kurhessen.Gerland was born in Gottsbüren near Kassel. He joined the Nazi Party in 1929. As of 1930, he was district leader in Kreis Hofgeismar, and beginning in 1932, he was acting propaganda leader in the Gau of Kurhessen...

       (1944–1945)

  • Gau Hessen - Nassau-Süd (Hesse- Southern Nassau) [Gau Hessen - Nassau - Süd became a part of Hessen - Nassau 1933], Gauleiter:
    • Anton Haselmayer (1925–1926)
    • Walter Schultz (1926–1927)
    • Jakob Sprenger
      Jakob Sprenger
      Jakob Sprenger was a Nazi politician.Sprenger was born in Oberhausen near Bad Bergzabern in the Palatinate. In 1922, the postal inspector Sprenger became a member of the Nazi Party...

       (1927–1933)

  • Gau Kärnten (Carinthia, in Austria), Gauleiter:
    • Hubert Klausner
      Hubert Klausner
      Hubert Klausner was an NSDAP Gauleiter and a Landeshauptmann of Carinthia....

       (1939–1940)
    • Franz Kutschera
      Franz Kutschera
      Franz Kutschera was an SS General and Gauleiter of Carinthia...

       (1940–1941)
    • Friedrich Rainer
      Friedrich Rainer
      Friedrich W. Rainer was a leader in the Nazi Party, as well as an Austrian State governor of Salzburg and Carinthia. He is the only Austrian governor who has ever held the same office in two separate states...

       (1942–1944)

  • Gau Koblenz - Trier [Koblenz - Trier was renamed Gau Moselland in 1942], Gauleiter:
    • Gustav Simon
      Gustav Simon
      Gustav Simon was, as the Nazi Gauleiter in the Moselland Gau from 1940 until 1944, the Chief of the Civil Administration in Luxembourg, which was occupied at that time by Nazi Germany....

       (1931–1945)

  • Gau Köln - Aachen (Cologne-Aachen)
    • Joseph Grohé (1931–1945)

  • Gau Kurmark (Elector's March) [Kurmark was founded in 1933 when Ostmark merged with Brandenburg; it was renamed Gau Mark Brandenburg in 1940], Gauleiter:
    • Wilhelm Kube
      Wilhelm Kube
      Wilhelm Kube was a German politician and Nazi official. He was an important figure in the German Christian movement during the early years of Nazi rule. During the war he became a senior official in the occupying government of the Soviet Union, achieving the rank of Generalkommissar for...

       (1933–1936)
    • Emil Sturtz (1939–1945)

  • Gau Lüneburg - Stade, Gauleiter:
    • Otto Telschow
      Otto Telschow
      Otto Telschow , German Nazi Party official, was born in Wittenberge and became a police official in Hamburg. He joined the Nazi Party in 1925, and was the founder of the regional Nazi newspaper, the Niedersachsen-Stürmer...

       (1925–1928)

  • Gau Magdeburg - Anhalt, Gauleiter:
    • Hermann Schmischke (1925–1928)
    • Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper
      Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper
      Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper was a Nazi politician and a Nazi Gauleiter in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt.- Life :...

       (1927–1933)
    • Paul Hofmann (1933)
    • Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper
      Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper
      Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper was a Nazi politician and a Nazi Gauleiter in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt.- Life :...

       (1934–1935)
    • Joachim Albrecht Eggeling
      Joachim Albrecht Eggeling
      Joachim Albrecht Leo Eggeling was the Nazi Gauleiter of Saxony and Anhalt and the High President of the Province of Halle-Merseburg.Eggeling was born in Blankenburg am Harz, Province of Saxony...

       (1935–1937)
    • Rudolf Jordan
      Rudolf Jordan
      Rudolf Jordan was a Nazi Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt in the time of the Third Reich....

       (1937–1945)

  • Gau Mecklenburg, Gauleiter:
    • Friedrich Hildebrandt
      Friedrich Hildebrandt
      Friedrich Hildebrandt was an SS Obergruppenführer, a Gauleiter and judged for war crimes in the time of the Third Reich....

       (1925–1930)
    • Herbert Albrecht
      Herbert Albrecht
      Dr. Herbert Albrecht was a Gauleiter of the National Socialist German Workers Party from 1930 until 1931.-Life:...

       (1930–1931)
    • Friedrich Hildebrandt
      Friedrich Hildebrandt
      Friedrich Hildebrandt was an SS Obergruppenführer, a Gauleiter and judged for war crimes in the time of the Third Reich....

       (1931–1945)

  • Gau Mittelfranken (Central Franconia) [Gau Mittelfranken became a part of Franken 1929], Gauleiter:
    • Wilhelm Grimm (1928)

  • Gau Moselland - see Gau Koblenz - Trier

  • Gau München-Oberbayern
    Gau München-Oberbayern
    The Gau München-Oberbayern was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in Upper Bavaria, Bavaria from 1933 to 1945...

    (Munich - Upper Bavaria) [Gau München - Oberbayern was founded in 1933 when the bezirk Oberbayern & Gross - München (Greater Munich; the Bavarian capital was also the official capital of the Nazi movement) merged], Gauleiter:
    • Adolf Wagner
      Adolf Wagner
      Adolf Wagner was a German soldier and high-ranking Nazi Party official born in Algrange, Alsace-Lorraine.He served in World War I as an officer in the German Army...

       (1933–1944)
    • Paul Giesler
      Paul Giesler
      Paul Giesler was a member of the NSDAP, from 1941 NSDAP Gauleiter of Westphalia-South and as of 1942 also acting Gauleiter of the Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria...

       (1944–1945)

  • Gau Niederbayern (Lower Bavaria) [Gau Niederbayern became a part of Bayerische Ostmark 1933], Gauleiter:
    • Fritz Reinhardt
      Fritz Reinhardt
      Fritz Reinhardt was a state secretary in the German Finance Ministry in the time of the Third Reich.- Career :...

       (October 1928 - 1930)
    • Otto Ebersdobler (1930–1932)

  • Gau Niederbayern–Oberpfalz (Lower Bavaria - Upper Palatinate) [Gau Niederbayern - Oberpfalz was divided into Niederbayern & Oberpfalz 1929], Gauleiter:
    • Gregor Strasser
      Gregor Strasser
      Gregor Strasser was a politician of the National Socialist German Workers Party...

       (1925–1929)

  • Gau Niederdonau (Lower Danube, i.e. Niederösterreich, in Austria), Gauleiter:
    • Hugo Jury
      Hugo Jury
      Hugo Jury was an Austrian Nazi....

       (1939–1945)

  • Gau Niederschlesien (Lower Silesia, split-off of Gau Schlesien; after the war lost to Poland), Gauleiter:
    • Karl Hanke
      Karl Hanke
      Karl August Hanke was an official of the National Socialist German Workers Party . He served as governor of Lower Silesia from 1941 to 1945 and as the final Reichsführer-SS for a few days in 1945.- Early life :Hanke was born in Lauban in Silesia, on 24 August 1903, the son of a locomotive...

       (1940–1945)

  • Gau Oberdonau (Upper Danube, i.e. Oberösterreich, in Austria), Gauleiter:
    • August Eigruber
      August Eigruber
      August Eigruber was an Austrian-born Nazi Gauleiter of Oberdonau and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria, later hanged by the Allies.-Early life and Nazi career:...

       (1939–1945)

  • Gau Oberfranken (Upper Franconia) [Gau Oberfranken became a part of Bayerische Ostmark 1933], Gauleiter:
    • Hans Schemm
      Hans Schemm
      Hans Schemm was a Gauleiter in Nazi Germany.-Life:Schemm, whose parents ran a shoemaker's shop, first went to a Volksschule for five years and then as of 1905 a teaching seminary. In 1915 he got married; in 1917 a son was born...

       (1928–1933)

  • Gau Oberpfalz (Upper Palatinate) [Gau Oberpfalz became a part of Bayerische Ostmark 1933], Gauleiter:
    • Franz Maierhofer (1929–1932)

  • Gau Oberschlesien (Upper Silesia, split-off of Gau Schlesien; after the war lost to Poland), Gauleiter:
    • Fritz Bracht
      Fritz Bracht
      Fritz Bracht was Nazi Gauleiter of Upper Silesia. He was directly involved in the mass murder of Jews and Poles....

       (1940–1945)

  • Gau Osthannover (East Hannover), Gauleiter:
    • Otto Telschow
      Otto Telschow
      Otto Telschow , German Nazi Party official, was born in Wittenberge and became a police official in Hamburg. He joined the Nazi Party in 1925, and was the founder of the regional Nazi newspaper, the Niedersachsen-Stürmer...

       (1925–1945)

  • Gau Ostmark, (Gau Ostmark was made a part of Gau Kurmark 1933), Gauleiter:
    • Wilhelm Kube
      Wilhelm Kube
      Wilhelm Kube was a German politician and Nazi official. He was an important figure in the German Christian movement during the early years of Nazi rule. During the war he became a senior official in the occupying government of the Soviet Union, achieving the rank of Generalkommissar for...

       (1928–1933)

  • Gau Ostpreußen (East Prussia), Gauleiter:
    • Bruno Gustav Scherwitz (1925–1927)
    • Erich Koch
      Erich Koch
      Erich Koch was a Gauleiter of the Nazi Party in East Prussia from 1928 until 1945. Between 1941 and 1945 he was the Chief of Civil Administration of Bezirk Bialystok. During this period, he was also the Reichskommissar in Reichskommissariat Ukraine from 1941 until 1943...

       (1928–1945)

  • Gau Pfalz–Saar [Gau Pfalz - Saar was founded in 1935 when Saarland & Rheinpfalz merged. It was renamed Saarpfalz in 1937 and finally Westmark 1942], Gauleiter:
    • Josef Bürckel
      Josef Bürckel
      Joseph Bürckel was a German politician and a member of the German parliament...

       (1935–1944)
    • Willi Stöhr
      Willi Stöhr
      Willi Stöhr , German NSDAP official, was born in Wuppertal-Elberfeld. He joined the NSDAP in 1923. In 1932 he was made a senior official of the Hitler Youth movement, and in 1933, when the National Socialist movement came to power, he was appointed to administrative position in Frankfurt am Main,...

       (1944–1945)

  • Gau Pommern (Pomerania
    Pomerania
    Pomerania is a historical region on the south shore of the Baltic Sea. Divided between Germany and Poland, it stretches roughly from the Recknitz River near Stralsund in the West, via the Oder River delta near Szczecin, to the mouth of the Vistula River near Gdańsk in the East...

    ; after the war mostly lost to Poland), Gauleiter:
    • Theodor Vahlen
      Theodor Vahlen
      Karl Theodor Vahlen was an Austrian-born mathematician who was an ardent supporter of the Nazi Party. He was a member of both the SA and SS.- Career :...

       (1925–1927)
    • Walter von Corswant (1928–1931)
    • Wilhelm Karpenstein
      Wilhelm Karpenstein
      Wilhelm Karpenstein was a German Nazi Party politician. He served as Gauleiter of Pomerania during the early days of the Third Reich....

       (1931–1934)
    • Franz Schwede-Coburg (1935–1945)

  • Gau Rheinland – Nord (Northern Rhineland) [Gau Rheinland - Nord became a part of Ruhr 1926], Gauleiter:
    • Karl Kaufmann
      Karl Kaufmann
      - External links :* in Der Deutsche Reichstag, Wahlperiode nach d. 30. Jan. 1933, Bd.: 1938, Berlin, 1938...

       (1925–1926)

  • Gau Rheinland – Süd (Southern Rhenania) [Gau Rheinland - Sud was divided into Köln - Aachen & Koblenz - Trier 1931], Gauleiter:
    • Heinz Haake (1925)
    • Robert Ley
      Robert Ley
      Robert Ley was a Nazi politician and head of the German Labour Front from 1933 to 1945. He committed suicide while awaiting trial for war crimes.- Early life :...

       (1925–1931)

  • Gau Rheinpfalz [Gau Rheinpfalz became a part of Pfalz - Saar 1935], Gauleiter:
    • Josef Bürckel
      Josef Bürckel
      Joseph Bürckel was a German politician and a member of the German parliament...

       (1926–1935)

  • Gau Ruhr [Gau Ruhr was divided into Westfalen - Nord & Westfalen - Sud 1932], Gauleiter:
    • Karl Kaufmann
      Karl Kaufmann
      - External links :* in Der Deutsche Reichstag, Wahlperiode nach d. 30. Jan. 1933, Bd.: 1938, Berlin, 1938...

       (1926–1929)
    • Josef Wagner
      Josef Wagner (Gauleiter)
      Josef Wagner was from 1928 the Nazi Gauleiter of the Gau of Westphalia-South, and as of January 1935 also of the Gau of Silesia.-Early life and First World War:...

       (1929–1931)

  • Gau Saarland [Gau Saarland became a part of Pfalz - Saar 1935], Gauleiter:
    • Josef Bürckel
      Josef Bürckel
      Joseph Bürckel was a German politician and a member of the German parliament...

       (1933–1935)

  • Gau Sachsen (Saxony
    Saxony
    The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....

    ), Gauleiter:
    • Martin Mutschmann
      Martin Mutschmann
      Martin Mutschmann was the Nazi Region Leader of the state of Saxony during the time of the Third Reich.-Biography:...

       (1925–1945)

  • Gau Salzburg (in Austria), Gauleiter:
    • Friedrich Rainer
      Friedrich Rainer
      Friedrich W. Rainer was a leader in the Nazi Party, as well as an Austrian State governor of Salzburg and Carinthia. He is the only Austrian governor who has ever held the same office in two separate states...

       (1939–1941)
    • Gustav Adolf Scheel
      Gustav Adolf Scheel
      Gustav Adolf Scheel was a German physician and "multifunctionary" in the time of the Third Reich...

       (1941–1945)

  • Gau Schlesien [Gau Schlesien was divided into Niederschlesien & Oberschlesien, i.e. Lower- & Upper Silesia
    Silesia
    Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with smaller parts also in the Czech Republic, and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas. Silesia's largest city and historical capital is Wrocław...

    , 1940], Gauleiter:
    • Helmut Bruckner
      Helmut Bruckner
      Helmuth Brückner was a Gauleiter of the National Socialist German Workers Party from 1925 until 1934.-Life:Helmuth Brückner was born on May 7, 1896 in Peilau . He attended Volkschule in Peilau, Höhere Knabenschule in Langenbielau, and Kgl. Realgymnasium in Reichenbach...

       (1925 - 12 December. 1934)
    • Josef Wagner
      Josef Wagner
      Josef Wagner may refer to:* Josef Wagner , Austrian composer* Josef Wagner , Nazi official in the Third Reich* Josef Wagner , Czech painter and graphic artist* Joe Wagner, American baseball player...

       (12 December. 1934 - 1940)

  • Gau Schleswig - Holstein, Gauleiter:
    • Hinrich Lohse
      Hinrich Lohse
      Hinrich Lohse was a Nazi German politician, best known for his World War II rule of the Baltic states.-Early life:...

       (1925–1945)

  • Gau Schwaben (Swabia
    Swabia
    Swabia is a cultural, historic and linguistic region in southwestern Germany.-Geography:Like many cultural regions of Europe, Swabia's borders are not clearly defined...

    ), Gauleiter:
    • Karl Wahl
      Karl Wahl
      Karl Wahl was the Nazi Gauleiter of Swabia from the Gau inception in 1928 until the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945.- Early life :...

       (1928–1945)

  • Gau Stadel (Bayern), Gauleiter:
    • Hans-Arnold Stadler (1944–1945) [See Thule Society.]

  • Gau Steiermark (Styria, in Austria), Gauleiter:
    • Siegfried Uiberreither
      Siegfried Uiberreither
      Siegfried Uiberreither was an Austrian Nazi-Gauleiter in Styria, Austria in the time of the Third Reich....

        (1939–1945)

  • Gau Sudetengau (the ethnically German border regions of Czechoslovakia with Germany and Austria, separated from the puppet-state Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
    Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
    The Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was the majority ethnic-Czech protectorate which Nazi Germany established in the central parts of Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia in what is today the Czech Republic...

    ) [Sudetengau was known as Gau
    Sudetenland
    Sudetenland
    Sudetenland is the German name used in English in the first half of the 20th century for the northern, southwest and western regions of Czechoslovakia inhabited mostly by ethnic Germans, specifically the border areas of Bohemia, Moravia, and those parts of Silesia being within Czechoslovakia.The...

    after 1939.], Gauleiter:
    • Konrad Henlein
      Konrad Henlein
      Konrad Ernst Eduard Henlein was a leading pro-Nazi ethnic German politician in Czechoslovakia and leader of Sudeten German separatists...

       (1939–1945)

  • Gau Sudhannover - Braunschweig (South Hannover - Brunswick) [Gau Sudhannover - Braunschweig was founded in 1928 when Hannover - Nord & Hannover - Sud merged], Gauleiter:
    • Bernhard Rust
      Bernhard Rust
      Dr. Bernhard Rust was Minister of Science, Education and National Culture in Nazi Germany. A combination of school administrator and zealous Nazi, he issued decrees, often bizarre, at every level of the German educational system to immerse German youth in the National Socialist philosophy...

       (1928–1940)
    • Hartmann Lauterbacher
      Hartmann Lauterbacher
      Hartmann Lauterbacher was a high area leader of the Hitler Youth, as well as Nazi Gauleiter of the Gau of South Hanover-Braunschweig and an SS Gruppenführer....

       (1940–1945)

  • Gau Thüringen (Thuringia
    Thuringia
    The Free State of Thuringia is a state of Germany, located in the central part of the country.It has an area of and 2.29 million inhabitants, making it the sixth smallest by area and the fifth smallest by population of Germany's sixteen states....

    ), Gauleiter:
    • Artur Dinter
      Artur Dinter
      Artur Dinter was a German writer and Nazi politician.- Biography :Dinter was born in Mulhouse, in Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire to Josef Dinter, a customs adviser, and his wife Berta, née Hoffmann, and he was baptized in the Catholic Church.After doing his school-leaving examination, Dinter...

       (1925–1927)
    • Fritz Sauckel
      Fritz Sauckel
      Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel was a Nazi war criminal, who organized the systematic enslavement of millions from lands occupied by Nazi Germany...

       (1927–1945)

  • Gau Tirol (in Austria), Gauleiter:
    • Franz Hofer
      Franz Hofer
      Franz Hofer was, in the time of the Third Reich, the Nazi Gauleiter of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg....

       (1932–1933)

  • Gau Tirol - Vorarlberg (in Austria), Gauleiter:
    • Franz Hofer
      Franz Hofer
      Franz Hofer was, in the time of the Third Reich, the Nazi Gauleiter of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg....

       (1938–1945)

  • Gau Unterfranken (Lower Franconia) [Unterfranken was known as Gau Mainfranken after 1935], Gauleiter:
    • Otto Hellmuth
      Otto Hellmuth
      Otto Hellmuth was a member of the Nazi Party.Born at Markt Einersheim, he was Gauleiter of the German region of Lower Franconia from 1928 to 1945. His home and office were in Würzburg, the capital of the Gau Mainfranken. By 1935, Hellmuth had his Gau renamed as Mainfranken...

       (1928–1945)

  • Gau Wallonien
    Reichsgau Wallonien
    The Reichsgau Wallonia was a short-lived Reichsgau of Nazi Germany established in 1944. It encompassed present-day Wallonia in its old provincial borders, so excluding Comines-Warneton but including Voeren...

    , Gauleiter:
    • Léon Degrelle
      Léon Degrelle
      Léon Joseph Marie Ignace Degrelle was a Walloon Belgian politician, who founded Rexism and later joined the Waffen SS which were front-line troops in the fight against the Soviet Union...

       (Dec. 1944 - Apr. 1945) (in exile in Germany)

  • Gau Wartheland
    Reichsgau Wartheland
    Reichsgau Wartheland was a Nazi German Reichsgau formed from Polish territory annexed in 1939. It comprised the Greater Poland and adjacent areas, and only in part matched the area of the similarly named pre-Versailles Prussian province of Posen...

    (named after the river Warta in Poland) [Wartheland was known as Warthegau before 1939], Gauleiter:
    • Arthur Greiser
      Arthur Greiser
      Arthur Greiser was a Nazi German politician and SS Obergruppenfuhrer. He was one of the persons primarily responsible for organizing the Holocaust in Poland and numerous other war crimes and crimes against humanity, for which he was tried, convicted and executed by hanging after World War...

       (1939–1945)

  • Gau Weser - Ems, Gauleiter:
    • Karl Rover (1929–1942)
    • Paul Wegener
      Paul Wegener (Gauleiter)
      Paul Wegener was a German Nazi Party official.-Early career:Wegener joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and the Sturmabteilung the following year. He became Kreisleiter for Bremen in 1933 and a delegate to the Reichstag for Weser-Ems that same year...

       (1942–1945)

  • Gau Westfalen [Gau Westfalen became a part of Ruhr in 1926], Gauleiter:
    • Franz Pfeffer von Salomon
      Franz Pfeffer von Salomon
      Franz Pfeffer von Salomon was the first commander of the SA after its 1925 restoration, which followed its temporary abolition in 1923 after the abortive Beer Hall Putsch....

       (1925–1926)

  • Gau Westfalen - Nord, Gauleiter:
    • Alfred Meyer
      Alfred Meyer
      Dr. Alfred Meyer was a Nazi official, achieving the rank of Staatssekretär and Deputy Reichsminister in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories .-Early life:Meyer was born in Göttingen, the son of a government official...

       (1932–1945)

  • Gau Westfalen - Sud, Gauleiter:
    • Josef Wagner
      Josef Wagner (Gauleiter)
      Josef Wagner was from 1928 the Nazi Gauleiter of the Gau of Westphalia-South, and as of January 1935 also of the Gau of Silesia.-Early life and First World War:...

       (1932–1941)
    • Paul Giesler
      Paul Giesler
      Paul Giesler was a member of the NSDAP, from 1941 NSDAP Gauleiter of Westphalia-South and as of 1942 also acting Gauleiter of the Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria...

       (1941–1943)
    • Albert Hoffmann
      Albert Hoffmann (Gauleiter)
      Albert Hoffmann was a German entrepreneur and during the Third Reich the Nazi Gauleiter of Westphalia-South.-Early life:...

       (19 June 1943 - May 1945)

  • Gau Wien (Vienna
    Vienna
    Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

    , in Austria), Gauleiter:
    • Odilo Globocnik
      Odilo Globocnik
      Odilo Lotario Globocnik was a prominent Austrian Nazi and later an SS leader. He was an acquaintance of Adolf Eichmann, who played a major role in the extermination of Jews and others during the Holocaust...

       (1938–1939)
    • Josef Bürckel
      Josef Bürckel
      Joseph Bürckel was a German politician and a member of the German parliament...

       (1939–1940)
    • Baldur von Schirach
      Baldur von Schirach
      Baldur Benedikt von Schirach was a Nazi youth leader later convicted of being a war criminal. Schirach was the head of the Hitler-Jugend and Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Vienna....

       (August 1940 – May 1945)

  • Gau Württemberg - Hohenzollern, Gauleiter:
    • Eugen Munder (1925–1928)
    • Wilhelm Murr
      Wilhelm Murr
      Wilhelm Murr was a Nazi politician...

      (1928–1945)

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