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.

Auslands-Organisation der NSDAP (NSDAP/AO)
*Hans Nieland (1930 - 1933)
*Ernst Wilhelm Bohle (1933 - 1945)

Gau Baden, Gauleiter:
*Robert Heinrich Wagner (25. Mar. 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 (1933 - 1935)

Gau Berlin, Gauleiter:
*Joseph Goebbels (1929 - 1945)

Gau Berlin - Brandenburg [Gau Berlin - Brandenburg was divided into Berlin & Brandenburg 1929.] Gauleiter:
*Ernst Schlange (1925 - 1926)
*Joseph Goebbels (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) [Gau Danzig was known as Gau Danzig - Westpreussen after 1939.] Gauleiter:
*Hans-Albert Hohnfeldt (1926 - 1928)
*? Maas (1928 - 1930)
*Albert Förster (1930 - 1945)

Gau Düsseldorf [Gau Düsseldorf was founded in 1929 from the bezirk Bergisches - Land.] Gauleiter:
*Friedrich Karl Florian (1929 - 1945)

Gau Essen, Gauleiter:
*Josef Terboven (1928 - 1945)
**Acting Gauleiter: Fritz Schlessmann (Apr. 1940 - May 1945)

Gau Franken (Franconia) [Gau Franken was founded in 1929 when Mittelfranken merged with the bezirk Nürnberg - Fürth.] Gauleiter:
*Julius Streicher (1929 - 1940)
*Hans Zimmermann (1940 - 1941)
*Karl Holz (1942 - 1945)
**Acting Gauleiter: Karl Holz (1940 - Apr. 1945)

Gau Halle - Merseburg, Gauleiter:
*? Ernst (1925 - 1927)
*Paul Hinkler (1927 - 1930)
*Rudolf Jordan (1930 - 1937)
*Joachim Albrecht Eggeling (1938 - 1945)

Gau Hamburg, Gauleiter: Joseph
*Klant (1925 - 1926)
*Albert Krebs (1927 - 1928)
*Hinrich Lohse (1928 - 1929)
*Karl Kaufmann (1929 - 1945)

Gau Hannover - Nord [Gau Hannover - Nord became a part of Südhannover - Braunschweig 1928.], Gauleiter:
*Bernhard Rust (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 (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 (1927 - autumn 1943)
*Acting Gauleiter: Karl Gerland (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 (1927 - 1933)

Gau Kärnten (Carinthia, in Austria), Gauleiter:
*Hubert Klausner (1939 - 1940)
*Franz Kutschera (1940 - 1941)
*Friedrich Rainer (1942 - 1944)

Gau Koblenz - Trier [Koblenz - Trier was renamed Gau Moselland in 1942.], Gauleiter:
*Gustav Simon (1931 - 1945) (b. 1900 - d. 1945) NSDAP; he was also the Chief of civil administration (from August 30 1942) of the small, totally annexed neighbouring discontinued Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (Luxemburg in German, Letzebürg in Luxembourgish; re-established by its government in exile after the war) 7 August 1940 - 11 September 1944

Gau Köln - Aachen (Cologne-Aachen)
*Joseph Grohe Family: Daughter Elisabeth married to Karl Strick who was a member of the SS; he died in a car accident in 1949. Elisabeth died a few years later.(1931 - 1945); must also have been responsible for ethno-culturally German Eupen-Malmédy and Sankt-Vith and once neutral Moresnet, (re-)annexed by the Reich from Belgium, as this was administratively put under the Regierungspräsident of Aachen 1940 - 1944 Franz Vogelsang (b. 1899 - d. ....)

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 (1933 - 1936)
*Emil Sturtz (1939 - 1945)

Gau Lüneburg - Stade, Gauleiter:
*Otto Telschow (1925 - 1928)

Gau Magdeburg - Anhalt, Gauleiter:
*Hermann Schmischke (1925 - 1928)
*Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper (1927 - 1933)
*P. Hofmann (1933)
*Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper (1934 - 1935)
*Joachim Albrecht Eggeling (1935 - 1937)
*Rudolf Jordan (1937 - 1945)

Gau Mecklenburg, Gauleiter:
*Friedrich Hildebrandt (1925 - 1930)
*? Albrecht (1930 - 1931)
*Friedrich Hildebrandt (1931 - 1945)

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

Gau Moselland - see Gau

Gau München - Oberbayern (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 (1933 - 1944)
*Paul Giesler (1944 - 1945)

Gau Niederbayern (Lower Bavaria) [Gau Niederbayern became a part of Bayerische Ostmark 1933.], Gauleiter:
*Fritz Reinhardt (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 (1925 - 1929)

Gau Niederdonau (Lower Danube, i.e. Niederösterreich, in Austria), Gauleiter:
*Hugo Jury (1939 - 1945)

Gau Niederschlesien (Lower Silesia, split-off of Gau Schlesien; after the war lost to Poland), Gauleiter:
*Karl Hanke (1940 - 1945)

ReichsGau Oberdonau (Upper Danube, i.e. Oberösterreich, in Austria) Gauleiter:
*August Eigruber (1939 - 1945)

Gau Oberfranken (Upper Franconia) [Gau Oberfranken became a part of Bayerische Ostmark 1933.] Gauleiter:
*Hans Schemm (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 (1940 - 1945)

Gau Osthannover (East Hannover), Gauleiter:
*Otto Telschow (1925 - 1945)

Gau Ostmark, (Gau Ostmark was made a part of Gau Kurmark 1933.) Gauleiter:
*Wilhelm Kube (1928 - 1933)

Gau Ostpreußen (East Prussia), Gauleiter:
*Bruno Gustav Scherwitz (1925 - 1927)
*Erich Koch (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 (1935 - 1944)
Willi Stohr (1944 - 1945)

Gau Pommern (Pomerania; after the war mostly lost to Poland) Gauleiter:
*Theodor Vahlen (1925 - 1927)
*Walter von Corswant (1928 - 1931)
*Wilhelm Karpenstein (1931 - 1934)
*Franz Schwede-Coburg (1935 - 1945)

Gau Rheinland – Nord (Northern Rhineland) [Gau Rheinland - Nord became a part of Ruhr 1926.], Gauleiter:
*Karl Kaufmann (1925 - 1926)

Gau Rheinland – Süd (Southern Rhenania) [Gau Rheinland - Sud was divided into Köln - Aachen & Koblenz - Trier 1931.], Gauleiter:
*Heinz Haake (1925)
*Robert Ley (1925 - 1931)

Gau Rheinpfalz [Gau Rheinpfalz became a part of Pfalz - Saar 1935.], Gauleiter:
*Josef Bürckel (1926 - 1935)

Gau Ruhr [Gau Ruhr was divided into Westfalen - Nord & Westfalen - Sud 1932.], Gauleiter:
*Karl Kaufmann (1926 - 1929)
*Josef Wagner (1929 - 1931)

Gau Saarland [Gau Saarland became a part of Pfalz - Saar 1935.], Gauleiter:
*Josef Bürckel (1933 - 1935)

Gau Sachsen (Saxony), Gauleiter:
Martin Mutschmann (1925 - 1945)

ReichsGau Salzburg (in Austria), Gauleiter:
*Friedrich Rainer (1939 - 1941)
*Gustav Adolf Scheel (1941 - 1945)

Gau Schlesien [Gau Schlesien was divided into Niederschlesien & Oberschlesien, i.e. Lower- & Upper Silezia, 1940.], Gauleiter:
*Helmut Bruckner (1925 - 12 December. 1934)
*Josef Wagner (12 December. 1934 - 1940)

Gau Schleswig - Holstein, Gauleiter:
*Hinrich Lohse (1925 - 1945)

Gau Schwaben (Swabia), Gauleiter:
*Karl Wahl (1928 - 1945)

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

ReichsGau Steiermark (Styria, in Austria), Gauleiter:
*Siegfried Uiberreither (1939 - 1945)

ReichsGau Sudetengau (the ethnically German border regions of Czechoslovakia with Germany and Austria, separated from the puppet-state Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) [Sudetengau was known as Gau Sudetenland after 1939.], Gauleiter:
*Konrad Henlein (1939 - 1945)

Gau Sudhannover - Braunschweig (South Hannover - Brunswick) [Gau Sudhannover - Braunschweig was founded in 1928 when Hannover - Nord & Hannover - Sud merged.], Gauleiter:
*Bernhard Rust (1928 - 1940)
*Hartmann Lauterbacher (1940 - 1945)

Gau Thüringen (Thuringia), Gauleiter:
*Artur Dinter (1925 - 1927)
*Fritz Sauckel (1927 - 1945)

Gau Tirol (in Austria), Gauleiter:
*Franz Hofer (1932 - 1933)

ReichsGau Tirol - Vorarlberg (in Austria), Gauleiter:
*Franz Hofer (1938 - 1945)

Gau Unterfranken (Lower Franconia) [Unterfranken was known as Gau Mainfranken after 1935.], Gauleiter:
*Otto Hellmuth (1928 - 1945)

Warthegau (named after the river; in Poland) [Warthegau was known as Reichsgau Wartheland after 1939.], Gauleiter:
*Arthur Greiser (1939 - 1945)

Gau Weser - Ems, Gauleiter:
*Karl Rover (1929 - 1942)
*Paul Wegener (1942 - 1945)

Gau Westfalen [Gau Westfalen became a part of Ruhr in 1926], Gauleiter:
*Franz Pfeffer von Salomon (1925 - 1926)

Gau Westfalen - Nord, Gauleiter:
*Alfred Meyer (1932 - 1945)

Gau Westfalen - Sud, Gauleiter:
*Josef Wagner (1932 - 1941)
*Paul Giesler (1941 - 1943)
*Albert Hoffmann (19 June. 1943 - May 1945)

Gau Wien (Vienna, in Austria), Gauleiter:
*Odilo Globocnik (1938 - 1939)
*Josef Bürckel (1939 - 1940)
*Baldur von Schirach (Aug. 1940 - May 1945)

Gau Württemberg - Hohenzollern, Gauleiter:
*Eugen Munder (1925 - 1928)
*Wilhelm Murr (1928 – 1945)

In December 1944, when the Allies were already occupying Belgium, its territory was split up into three Gau-type parts as integral ('Germanic') parts of the Reich: the bicultural capital Brussels (Brüssel in German, Brussel in Dutch and Bruxelles in French) remained directly under the German Reichskommissar of Belgien-Nordfrankreich (18 July 1944 - Jan 1945 Joseph Grohé (1902 - 1988) NSDAP, but the bulk of the country was divided ethno-linguistically under collaborating party leaders (though with very little local support) with Führer-imitating (see that article for parallels) titles in their national languages:
*Head of Reichsgau Flandern (Flanders, Vlaanderen in Dutch; supposedly including Frans-Vlaanderen in northern France) and Landleader of the Flemish People - Head of the Flemish Liberation Committee (in Dutch Landsleider van het Vlaamsche Volk - Hoofd van het Vlaamsche Bevrijdingscomité) 15 December 1944 - 1945 Jef Van de Wiele (in Germany, in exile) (1902 - 1979) Devlag party
*Head of Reichsgau Wallonien (Wallonia, Wallonie in French) and Leader of the Walloon People (in French Chef du Peuple Wallon) 8 December 1944 - 1945 Léon Degrelle (b. 1906 - d. 1994; also remained in Germany, in exile, even though German troops reconquered part of Wallonia in December 1944 - January 1945) Rex party

Sources and references

Westermann, Großer Atlas zur Weltgeschichte
[WorldStatesmen - here Belgium]

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