Gau East Prussia
| Gau East Prussia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Gau of Nazi Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1925–1945 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Map of Gau East Prussia | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Capital | Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||||||||||||||
• 1941 - | 48,867 km2 (18,868 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||||||||||||||
• | 2,119,879[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Wilhelm Stich | |||||||||||||||||||||||
• 1926–1927 | Bruno Gustav Scherwitz | ||||||||||||||||||||||
• 1927–1928 | Hans Albert Hohnfeldt (acting) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
• 1928–1945 | Erich Koch | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||||||||
• Establishment | 6 December 1925 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 August 1945 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Belarus Poland Lithuania Russia (Kaliningrad Oblast) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Gau East Prussia (German: Ostpreußen) was an administrative division of
Hrodna (German
: Garten) also became part of the Gau.
After the war, the territory of the former Gau became part of the
Belarusian SSR within the Soviet Union
.
History
The Nazi Gau (plural Gaue) system was originally established in a
Nazi seizure of power, the Gaue increasingly replaced the German states as administrative subdivisions in Germany.[3]
At the head of each Gau stood a
Second World War, with little interference from above. Local Gauleiters often held government positions as well as party ones and were in charge of, among other things, propaganda and surveillance and, from September 1944 onward, the Volkssturm and the defense of the Gau.[3][4]
The position of Gauleiter in East Prussia was held by
Wilhelm Stich from 1925 to 1926, Bruno Gustav Scherwitz from 1926 to 1927, Hans Albert Hohnfeldt (acting) from 1927 to 1928 and Erich Koch from 1 October 1928 to the end of the Nazi regime.[5][6][7]
See also
- Gauliga Ostpreußen, the highest association football league in the Gauliga from 1933 to 1945
References
- ^ "Die Bevölkerung des Deutschen Reichs nach den Ergebnissen der Volkszählung 1939".
- ISBN 978-1-781-55826-3.
- ^ Deutsches Historisches Museum. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- The Nizkor Project. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ^ "Übersicht der NSDAP-Gaue, der Gauleiter und der Stellvertretenden Gauleiter zwischen 1933 und 1945" [Overview of Nazi Gaue, the Gauleiter and assistant Gauleiter from 1933 to 1945]. zukunft-braucht-erinnerung.de (in German). Zukunft braucht Erinnerung. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ^ "Gau Ostpreußen". verwaltungsgeschichte.de (in German). Retrieved 24 March 2016.
- ISBN 1-932970-21-5.
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