Party . The militant anti-Semite rose quickly through the ranks, first to Gauleiter of Hesse-Nassau-South in 1927, and by September 1930 to member of the Reichstag . On 5 May 1933 Sprenger was appointed Reichsstatthalter of Hesse and leader of the new Gau of Hesse-Nassau, which included Hesse-Darmstadt. In the process