List of Gauleiters

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)
**Walter Maaß (1928 - 1930)
**Albert Forster (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:
**Walter Ernst (1925 - 1926)
**Paul Hinkler (1926 - 1930)
**Rudolf Jordan (1930 - 1937)
**Joachim Albrecht Eggeling (1938 - 1945)
*Gau Hamburg, Gauleiter: Joseph
**Josef 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) 
*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 (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)
**Paul Hofmann (1933)
**Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper (1934 - 1935)
**Joachim Albrecht Eggeling (1935 - 1937)
**Rudolf Jordan (1937 - 1945)
*Gau Mecklenburg, Gauleiter: 
**Friedrich Hildebrandt (1925 - 1930)
**Herbert 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 Koblenz - Trier
*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 Stöhr (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)
*Reichsgau Wartheland (named after the river; in Poland) [Wartheland was known as Warthegau before 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)
==Sources and references==
*Westermann, Großer Atlas zur Weltgeschichte
*Gauleiter Nuremberg War Crimes International Court
*Luxemburg gauleiter
*WorldStatesmen - here Belgium
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