Gau Electoral Hesse
(Redirected from
Gau Kurhessen
)| Gau Electoral Hesse | |||||||||
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| Gau of Nazi Germany | |||||||||
| 1925–1945 | |||||||||
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 Coat of arms
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| Capital | Kassel | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| Gauleiter | |||||||||
• 1925–1928 | Walter Schultz | ||||||||
• 1928–1943 | Karl Weinrich | ||||||||
• 1943–1944 | Karl Gerland (acting) | ||||||||
• 1944–1945 | Karl Gerland | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Disestablishment | 8 May 1945 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||
The Gau Electoral Hesse (German: Gau Kurhessen) was an
Hesse-Nassau. Before that, from 1925 to 1933, it was the regional subdivision of the Nazi Party
in that area.
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] The Gau was originally part of the Gau Hesse-Nassau which was split into Gau Hesse-Nassau-North and Gau Hesse-Nassau-South at the end of 1925.[2] In 1934 the Gau Hesse-Nassau-North was reorganised and renamed Gau Electoral Hesse.[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.[1][4]
The position of Gauleiter was originally held by Walter Schultz from 1925 to 1928, followed by Karl Weinrich from 1928 to 1943. Karl Gerland succeeded Weinrich, initially in an acting position before becoming permanent Gauleiter in 1944.[5][3] Gerland was killed in action in April 1945. Weinrich, his predecessor who was removed from his position because of incompetence during a bombing raid on Kassel, survived the war, was sentenced to a ten-year prison term in 1949 and died in 1973.[6]
See also
- Gauliga Hessen, the highest association football league in the Gau from 1933 to 1945
References
- ^ Deutsches Historisches Museum. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
- ISBN 978-1-781-55826-3.
- ^ a b "Gau Kurhessen". verwaltungsgeschichte.de (in German). 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.
- ^ "Ex-Gauleiter Weinrich zu zehn Jahren Haft verurteilt" [Former Gauleiter Weinrich sentenced to 10 years in jail]. nordhessen-online.com (in German). Retrieved 26 March 2016.
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