List of Gauleiters
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The following List of Gauleiters enumerates those who have held the German political rank of Gauleiter
, most often associated with Nazi Germany
.
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...
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- Auslands-Organisation der NSDAP (NSDAP/AONSDAP/AOThe 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 NielandHans NielandHans Heinrich Nieland was a politician of the German Nazi-Party and Lord Mayor of Dresden from 1940 until 1945.- Life :...
(1930–1933) - Ernst Wilhelm BohleErnst Wilhelm BohleErnst Wilhelm Bohle was the leader of the Foreign Organization of the German Nazi Party from 1933 until 1945.-Early life:...
(1933–1945)
- Hans Nieland
- Gau Baden, Gauleiter:
- Robert Heinrich WagnerRobert Heinrich WagnerRobert 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)
- Robert Heinrich Wagner
- 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 SchemmHans SchemmHans 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)
- Hans Schemm
- Gau Berlin, Gauleiter:
- Joseph GoebbelsJoseph GoebbelsPaul 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)
- Joseph Goebbels
- Gau Berlin - Brandenburg [Gau Berlin - Brandenburg was divided into Berlin & Brandenburg 1929], Gauleiter:
- Ernst Schlange (1925–1926)
- Joseph GoebbelsJoseph GoebbelsPaul 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 GdańskGdanskGdańsk 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 ForsterAlbert ForsterAlbert 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 FlorianFriedrich Karl FlorianFriedrich 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)
- Friedrich Karl Florian
- Gau Essen, Gauleiter:
- Josef TerbovenJosef TerbovenJosef 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)
- Josef Terboven
- Gau FlandernReichsgau FlandernThe 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 WieleJef van de WieleFredegardus Jacobus Josephus van de Wiele was a Belgian Flemish Nazi politician.-Nazism:...
(December 1944 – April 1945) (in exile in Germany)
- Jef van de Wiele
- Gau Franken (FranconiaFranconiaFranconia 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 StreicherJulius StreicherJulius 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 HolzKarl 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 HolzKarl 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)
- Acting Gauleiter: Karl Holz
- Julius Streicher
- Gau Halle - Merseburg, Gauleiter:
- Walter Ernst (1925–1926)
- Paul Hinkler (1926–1930)
- Rudolf JordanRudolf JordanRudolf Jordan was a Nazi Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt in the time of the Third Reich....
(1930–1937) - Joachim Albrecht EggelingJoachim Albrecht EggelingJoachim 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 KrebsAlbert KrebsAlbert 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 LohseHinrich LohseHinrich Lohse was a Nazi German politician, best known for his World War II rule of the Baltic states.-Early life:...
(1928–1929) - Karl KaufmannKarl 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 RustBernhard RustDr. 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)
- Bernhard Rust
- 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 SprengerJakob SprengerJakob 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)
- Jakob Sprenger
- Gau Hessen - Nassau-Nord (Hesses- Northern Nassau) [Hessen - Nassau - Nord was known as Gau Kurhessen after 1934], Gauleiter:
- Walter Schultz (1926–1927)
- Karl WeinrichKarl WeinrichKarl 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 GerlandKarl GerlandKarl 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 SprengerJakob SprengerJakob 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 KlausnerHubert KlausnerHubert Klausner was an NSDAP Gauleiter and a Landeshauptmann of Carinthia....
(1939–1940) - Franz KutscheraFranz KutscheraFranz Kutschera was an SS General and Gauleiter of Carinthia...
(1940–1941) - Friedrich RainerFriedrich RainerFriedrich 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)
- Hubert Klausner
- Gau Koblenz - Trier [Koblenz - Trier was renamed Gau Moselland in 1942], Gauleiter:
- Gustav SimonGustav SimonGustav 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)
- Gustav Simon
- 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 KubeWilhelm KubeWilhelm 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)
- Wilhelm Kube
- Gau Lüneburg - Stade, Gauleiter:
- Otto TelschowOtto TelschowOtto 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)
- Otto Telschow
- Gau Magdeburg - Anhalt, Gauleiter:
- Hermann Schmischke (1925–1928)
- Wilhelm Friedrich LoeperWilhelm Friedrich LoeperWilhelm Friedrich Loeper was a Nazi politician and a Nazi Gauleiter in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt.- Life :...
(1927–1933) - Paul Hofmann (1933)
- Wilhelm Friedrich LoeperWilhelm Friedrich LoeperWilhelm Friedrich Loeper was a Nazi politician and a Nazi Gauleiter in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt.- Life :...
(1934–1935) - Joachim Albrecht EggelingJoachim Albrecht EggelingJoachim 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 JordanRudolf JordanRudolf Jordan was a Nazi Gauleiter in Halle-Merseburg and Magdeburg-Anhalt in the time of the Third Reich....
(1937–1945)
- Gau Mecklenburg, Gauleiter:
- Friedrich HildebrandtFriedrich HildebrandtFriedrich Hildebrandt was an SS Obergruppenführer, a Gauleiter and judged for war crimes in the time of the Third Reich....
(1925–1930) - Herbert AlbrechtHerbert AlbrechtDr. Herbert Albrecht was a Gauleiter of the National Socialist German Workers Party from 1930 until 1931.-Life:...
(1930–1931) - Friedrich HildebrandtFriedrich HildebrandtFriedrich Hildebrandt was an SS Obergruppenführer, a Gauleiter and judged for war crimes in the time of the Third Reich....
(1931–1945)
- Friedrich Hildebrandt
- Gau Mittelfranken (Central Franconia) [Gau Mittelfranken became a part of Franken 1929], Gauleiter:
- Wilhelm Grimm (1928)
- Gau Moselland - see Gau Koblenz - Trier
- Gau München-OberbayernGau München-OberbayernThe 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 WagnerAdolf WagnerAdolf 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 GieslerPaul GieslerPaul 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)
- Adolf Wagner
- Gau Niederbayern (Lower Bavaria) [Gau Niederbayern became a part of Bayerische Ostmark 1933], Gauleiter:
- Fritz ReinhardtFritz ReinhardtFritz 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)
- Fritz Reinhardt
- Gau Niederbayern–Oberpfalz (Lower Bavaria - Upper Palatinate) [Gau Niederbayern - Oberpfalz was divided into Niederbayern & Oberpfalz 1929], Gauleiter:
- Gregor StrasserGregor StrasserGregor Strasser was a politician of the National Socialist German Workers Party...
(1925–1929)
- Gregor Strasser
- Gau Niederdonau (Lower Danube, i.e. Niederösterreich, in Austria), Gauleiter:
- Hugo JuryHugo JuryHugo Jury was an Austrian Nazi....
(1939–1945)
- Hugo Jury
- Gau Niederschlesien (Lower Silesia, split-off of Gau Schlesien; after the war lost to Poland), Gauleiter:
- Karl HankeKarl HankeKarl 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)
- Karl Hanke
- Gau Oberdonau (Upper Danube, i.e. Oberösterreich, in Austria), Gauleiter:
- August EigruberAugust EigruberAugust 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)
- August Eigruber
- Gau Oberfranken (Upper Franconia) [Gau Oberfranken became a part of Bayerische Ostmark 1933], Gauleiter:
- Hans SchemmHans SchemmHans 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)
- Hans Schemm
- 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 BrachtFritz BrachtFritz Bracht was Nazi Gauleiter of Upper Silesia. He was directly involved in the mass murder of Jews and Poles....
(1940–1945)
- Fritz Bracht
- Gau Osthannover (East Hannover), Gauleiter:
- Otto TelschowOtto TelschowOtto 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)
- Otto Telschow
- Gau Ostmark, (Gau Ostmark was made a part of Gau Kurmark 1933), Gauleiter:
- Wilhelm KubeWilhelm KubeWilhelm 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)
- Wilhelm Kube
- Gau Ostpreußen (East Prussia), Gauleiter:
- Bruno Gustav Scherwitz (1925–1927)
- Erich KochErich KochErich 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 BürckelJosef BürckelJoseph Bürckel was a German politician and a member of the German parliament...
(1935–1944) - Willi StöhrWilli StöhrWilli 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)
- Josef Bürckel
- Gau Pommern (PomeraniaPomeraniaPomerania 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 VahlenTheodor VahlenKarl 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 KarpensteinWilhelm KarpensteinWilhelm 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)
- Theodor Vahlen
- Gau Rheinland – Nord (Northern Rhineland) [Gau Rheinland - Nord became a part of Ruhr 1926], Gauleiter:
- Karl KaufmannKarl Kaufmann- External links :* in Der Deutsche Reichstag, Wahlperiode nach d. 30. Jan. 1933, Bd.: 1938, Berlin, 1938...
(1925–1926)
- Karl Kaufmann
- Gau Rheinland – Süd (Southern Rhenania) [Gau Rheinland - Sud was divided into Köln - Aachen & Koblenz - Trier 1931], Gauleiter:
- Heinz Haake (1925)
- Robert LeyRobert LeyRobert 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 BürckelJosef BürckelJoseph Bürckel was a German politician and a member of the German parliament...
(1926–1935)
- Josef Bürckel
- Gau Ruhr [Gau Ruhr was divided into Westfalen - Nord & Westfalen - Sud 1932], Gauleiter:
- Karl KaufmannKarl Kaufmann- External links :* in Der Deutsche Reichstag, Wahlperiode nach d. 30. Jan. 1933, Bd.: 1938, Berlin, 1938...
(1926–1929) - Josef WagnerJosef 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)
- Karl Kaufmann
- Gau Saarland [Gau Saarland became a part of Pfalz - Saar 1935], Gauleiter:
- Josef BürckelJosef BürckelJoseph Bürckel was a German politician and a member of the German parliament...
(1933–1935)
- Josef Bürckel
- Gau Sachsen (SaxonySaxonyThe 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 MutschmannMartin MutschmannMartin Mutschmann was the Nazi Region Leader of the state of Saxony during the time of the Third Reich.-Biography:...
(1925–1945)
- Martin Mutschmann
- Gau Salzburg (in Austria), Gauleiter:
- Friedrich RainerFriedrich RainerFriedrich 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 ScheelGustav Adolf ScheelGustav Adolf Scheel was a German physician and "multifunctionary" in the time of the Third Reich...
(1941–1945)
- Friedrich Rainer
- Gau Schlesien [Gau Schlesien was divided into Niederschlesien & Oberschlesien, i.e. Lower- & Upper SilesiaSilesiaSilesia 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 BrucknerHelmut BrucknerHelmuth 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 WagnerJosef WagnerJosef 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)
- Helmut Bruckner
- Gau Schleswig - Holstein, Gauleiter:
- Hinrich LohseHinrich LohseHinrich Lohse was a Nazi German politician, best known for his World War II rule of the Baltic states.-Early life:...
(1925–1945)
- Hinrich Lohse
- Gau Schwaben (SwabiaSwabiaSwabia 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 WahlKarl WahlKarl 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)
- Karl Wahl
- Gau Stadel (Bayern), Gauleiter:
- Hans-Arnold Stadler (1944–1945) [See Thule Society.]
- Gau Steiermark (Styria, in Austria), Gauleiter:
- Siegfried UiberreitherSiegfried UiberreitherSiegfried Uiberreither was an Austrian Nazi-Gauleiter in Styria, Austria in the time of the Third Reich....
(1939–1945)
- Siegfried Uiberreither
- Gau Sudetengau (the ethnically German border regions of Czechoslovakia with Germany and Austria, separated from the puppet-state Protectorate of Bohemia and MoraviaProtectorate of Bohemia and MoraviaThe 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 SudetenlandSudetenlandSudetenland 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 HenleinKonrad HenleinKonrad Ernst Eduard Henlein was a leading pro-Nazi ethnic German politician in Czechoslovakia and leader of Sudeten German separatists...
(1939–1945)
- Konrad Henlein
- Gau Sudhannover - Braunschweig (South Hannover - Brunswick) [Gau Sudhannover - Braunschweig was founded in 1928 when Hannover - Nord & Hannover - Sud merged], Gauleiter:
- Bernhard RustBernhard RustDr. 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 LauterbacherHartmann LauterbacherHartmann 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)
- Bernhard Rust
- Gau Thüringen (ThuringiaThuringiaThe 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 DinterArtur DinterArtur 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 SauckelFritz SauckelErnst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel was a Nazi war criminal, who organized the systematic enslavement of millions from lands occupied by Nazi Germany...
(1927–1945)
- Artur Dinter
- Gau Tirol (in Austria), Gauleiter:
- Franz HoferFranz HoferFranz Hofer was, in the time of the Third Reich, the Nazi Gauleiter of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg....
(1932–1933)
- Franz Hofer
- Gau Tirol - Vorarlberg (in Austria), Gauleiter:
- Franz HoferFranz HoferFranz Hofer was, in the time of the Third Reich, the Nazi Gauleiter of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg....
(1938–1945)
- Franz Hofer
- Gau Unterfranken (Lower Franconia) [Unterfranken was known as Gau Mainfranken after 1935], Gauleiter:
- Otto HellmuthOtto HellmuthOtto 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)
- Otto Hellmuth
- Gau WallonienReichsgau WallonienThe 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 DegrelleLéon DegrelleLéon 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)
- Léon Degrelle
- Gau WarthelandReichsgau WarthelandReichsgau 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 GreiserArthur GreiserArthur 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)
- Arthur Greiser
- Gau Weser - Ems, Gauleiter:
- Karl Rover (1929–1942)
- Paul WegenerPaul 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 SalomonFranz Pfeffer von SalomonFranz 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)
- Franz Pfeffer von Salomon
- Gau Westfalen - Nord, Gauleiter:
- Alfred MeyerAlfred MeyerDr. 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)
- Alfred Meyer
- Gau Westfalen - Sud, Gauleiter:
- Josef WagnerJosef 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 GieslerPaul GieslerPaul 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 HoffmannAlbert 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)
- Josef Wagner
- Gau Wien (ViennaViennaVienna 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 GlobocnikOdilo GlobocnikOdilo 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 BürckelJosef BürckelJoseph Bürckel was a German politician and a member of the German parliament...
(1939–1940) - Baldur von SchirachBaldur von SchirachBaldur 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)
- Odilo Globocnik
- Gau Württemberg - Hohenzollern, Gauleiter:
- Eugen Munder (1925–1928)
- Wilhelm MurrWilhelm MurrWilhelm Murr was a Nazi politician...
(1928–1945)
Sources and references
- Westermann, Großer Atlas zur Weltgeschichte
- Gauleiter Nuremberg War Crimes International Court
- Luxemburg gauleiter
- WorldStatesmen - here Belgium