Gau Hesse-Nassau
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Gau Hessen-Nassau
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| Gau of Nazi Germany | |||||||||||
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| Capital | Frankfurt | ||||||||||
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| Gauleiter | |||||||||||
• 1933–1945 | Jakob Sprenger | ||||||||||
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• Disestablishment | 8 May 1945 | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||||
The Gau Hesse-Nassau (German: Gau Hessen-Nassau) was an
Hesse-Nassau that were, from 1927 to 1933, the regional subdivisions of the Nazi Party
in those areas.
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.[1]
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.[1][2]
The position of Gauleiter in Hesse-Nassau was held by Jakob Sprenger throughout the history of the Gau.[3][4] Sprenger and his wife committed suicide in Tyrol on 7 May 1945, where they had gone into hiding.[5]
References
- ^ Deutsches Historisches Museum. Retrieved 26 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 26 March 2016.
- ^ "Gau Hesse-Nassau". verwaltungsgeschichte.de (in German). Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ISBN 9780199532568.
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