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List of Gauleiters

The List of Gauleiter enumerates 114 men who held the Nazi Party (NSDAP) senior regional leader rank of Gauleiter under Adolf Hitler, from the reestablishment of the party in February 1925 to the fall of the Nazi regime in May 1945. It includes those that served in Germany proper and in those territories that were incorporated into Germany from 1935 to 1944. However, it does not include the Gauleiter of the separate Austrian Nazi Party (DNSAP) in the sovereign state of Austria prior to its annexation by Germany in the Anschluss of March 1938.

Of the 44 incumbent Gauleiter who survived the Second World War, 13 committed suicide around the time that Nazi Germany surrendered, eight were executed by the Allies after the war, one was executed by the SS in the closing days of the war and one died in captivity in the Soviet Union. By 1954, when Karl Wahl became the first former Gauleiter to publish his memoirs, eight were still missing, three were in prison and the remaining ten had been imprisoned and released.[1]

List

This is a list of Gauleiter with their Gaue assignment(s), time in office and comments about their fate:[2][3][4]

Notes

  1. ^ Gau Elbe-Havel merged with Gau Anhalt and Gau Magdeburg to form Gau Anhalt-North Saxony Province in 1926; renamed Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt in 1928
  2. ^ Foreign Organization branch of the Nazi Party
  3. ^ Created when Gau Schlesien was split into two separate Gaue
  4. ^ Gau Saar merged with Gau Rheinpfalz to form Gau Pfalz-Saar in 1935
  5. ^ Gau Rheinpfalz merged with Gau Saar to form Gau Pfalz-Saar in 1935
  6. ^ Gau Pfalz-Saar was founded in 1935 when Gau Saar & Gau Rheinpfalz merged. It was renamed Gau Saarpfalz in 1936 and finally Gau Westmark in 1940 when it absorbed part of French Lorraine
  7. ^ Gau Schlesien was divided into Gau Niederschlesien & Gau Oberschlesien in 1941
  8. ^ In exile in Germany
  9. ^ Gau Niederbayern became a part of Bayerische Ostmark 1933
  10. ^ Gau Düsseldorf was founded in 1930 from the Bezirk Bergisches-Land
  11. ^ Gau Danzig-Westpreußen was known as Gau Danzig before 1939
  12. ^ Gau Hessen-Darmstadt was formed in 1927; it merged with Gau Hessen-Nassau-Süd to form Gau Hessen-Nassau in 1933
  13. ^ Kurhessen was known as Gau Hessen-Nassau-Nord before 1934
  14. ^ Gau München-Oberbayern was founded in 1930 when the Bezirk Oberbayern & Gross-München merged
  15. ^ Gau Berlin-Brandenburg was formed in 1926 by the merger of Gau Groß-Berlin and Gau Potsdam; it was divided into Gau Berlin and Gau Brandenburg in 1928
  16. ^ Wartheland was also known as Warthegau
  17. ^ Gau Mittelfranken became a part of Franken 1929
  18. ^ Gau Rheinland-Süd was divided into Köln-Aachen & Koblenz-Trier in 1931
  19. ^ Founded as Gau Göttingen in 1925, the renamed Gau Hannover-Süd became a part of Südhannover-Braunschweig in 1928
  20. ^ Created when Gau Schlesien was split into two separate Gaue
  21. ^ Gau Hessen-Nassau-Süd merged with Gau Hessen-Darmstadt to form Gau Hessen-Nassau in 1933
  22. ^ Gau Oberpfalz became a part of Bayerische Ostmark in 1933
  23. ^ Unterfranken was known as Gau Mainfranken after 1935
  24. ^ Gau Brandenburg was separated from Gau Berlin-Brandenburg in 1928 and merged with Gau Ostmark to form Gau Kurmark in 1933
  25. ^ Gau Franken was founded in 1929 when Mittelfranken merged with the Bezirk Nürnberg-Fürth
  26. ^ Honorary Gauleiter, no Gau assignment
  27. ^ Gau Rheinland-Nord merged with Gau Westfalen to become Großgau Ruhr in 1926
  28. ^ Großgau Ruhr was divided into Gau Essen, Gau Westfalen and Bezirk Bergisches-Land in 1928
  29. ^ Gau Brandenburg, founded in 1925 and renamed Gau Potsdam in 1926, merged with Groß-Berlin later in 1926 to form Gau Berlin-Brandenburg
  30. ^ Honorary Gauleiter, no Gau assignment
  31. ^ Gau Ostmark separated from Gau Berlin-Brandenburg in 1928 and became part of Gau Kurmark in 1933
  32. ^ Kurmark was founded in 1933 when Gau Ostmark merged with Gau Brandenburg; it was renamed Gau Mark Brandenburg in 1939
  33. ^ Gau Südhannover-Braunschweig was founded in 1928 when Hannover-Nord & Hannover-Süd merged
  34. ^ Honorary Gauleiter, no Gau assignment
  35. ^ Gau Westfalen became a part of Großgau Ruhr in 1926
  36. ^ Honorary Gauleiter, no Gau assignment
  37. ^ Gau Hannover-Nord became a part of Südhannover-Braunschweig 1928
  38. ^ Gau Oberfranken became a part of Bayerische Ostmark in 1933
  39. ^ Gau Bayerische Ostmark was founded in 1933 when Gau Oberfranken, Niederbayern and Oberpfalz merged. It was renamed Gau Bayreuth after its capital in 1942
  40. ^ Gau Groß-Berlin merged with Gau Potsdam to form Gau Berlin-Brandenburg in 1926
  41. ^ Gau Anhalt merged with Gau Elbe-Havel and Gau Magdeburg to form Gau Anhalt-North Saxony Province in 1926; renamed Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt in 1928
  42. ^ Gau Hessen-Nassau-Nord renamed Gau Kurhessen 1934
  43. ^ Moselland was named Gau Koblenz-Trier until 1942
  44. ^ Gau Hessen-Nassau was founded 1933 when Hessen-Darmstadt merged with Hessen-Nassau-Süd
  45. ^ Gau Niederbayern-Oberpfalz was divided into Niederbayern & Oberpfalz in 1929
  46. ^ Gau Lüneburg-Stade renamed Gau Osthannover in 1928
  47. ^ Renamed Gau Magdeburg in early 1926 and merged with Gau Anhalt and Gau Elbe-Havel to form Gau Anhalt-North Saxony Province later that year; renamed Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt in 1928
  48. ^ Gau Westfalen was formed from Großgau Ruhr in 1928 and was divided into Gau Westfalen-Nord and Gau Westfalen-Süd in 1931
  49. ^ Gau Schlesien was divided into Niederschlesien & Oberschlesien in 1941
  50. ^ Included the French Alsace region from 1940 onwards and was renamed Gau Baden-Alsace
  51. ^ In exile in Germany

References

Citations

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  14. ^ a b Miller & Schulz 2017, p. 25.
  15. ^ Miller & Schulz 2017, p. 29.
  16. ^ a b Miller & Schulz 2017, p. 34.
  17. ^ a b Miller & Schulz 2017, p. 46.
  18. ^ a b Miller & Schulz 2017, p. 51.
  19. ^ "Die Legende vom "guten Gauleiter"" [The legend of the "good Gauleiter"]. ndr.de (in German). Norddeutscher Rundfunk. 8 April 2011. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  20. ^ Miller & Schulz 2017, p. 76.
  21. ^ Miller & Schulz 2017, p. 134.
  22. ^ Miller & Schulz 2017, p. 189.
  23. ^ "Lohse, Hinrich". deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Bavarian State Library. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  24. ^ Miller & Schulz 2017, p. 363.
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  26. ^ "Schemm, Hans". verwaltungshandbuch.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de (in German). Bayerische Landesbibliothek. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
  27. ^ "Stöhr, Willi". verwaltungshandbuch.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de (in German). Bayerische Landesbibliothek. Retrieved 20 April 2016.
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  31. ^ "ROBERT WAGNER, GAULEITER, REICHSSTATTHALTER IN BADEN UND CHEF DER ZIVILVERWALTUNG IM ELSASS" [Robert Wagner, Gauleiter, Reichsstatthalter in Baden and chief of the civil administration of Alsace]. ns-ministerien-bw.de (in German). 12 December 2014. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
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