Gau Thuringia

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Gau Thuringia
Gau of Nazi Germany
1925–1945
Flag of Gau Thüringen
Flag
Coat of arms of Gau Thüringen
Coat of arms
Gaue and Reichsgaue).
CapitalWeimar
Government
Gauleiter 
• 1925–1927
Artur Dinter
• 1927–1945
Fritz Sauckel
History 
• 
Disestablishment
8 May 1945
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Thuringia
Thuringia
Bavaria
Saxony-Anhalt (1945–1952)
Today part ofGermany

The Gau Thuringia (German: Gau Thüringen) formed on 6 April 1925, was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in the Free State of Thuringia from 1933 to 1945. 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]

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 Thuringia was originally held by

war crimes and crimes against humanity on 16 October 1946.[3] His deputies were Hans Severus Ziegler (1927-1931), Willy Marschler (1931–32), Fritz Wächtler (1932–35) and Heinrich Siekmeier (1936–45).[4]

The Buchenwald concentration camp was located in the Gau Thuringia. Of the 238,980 prisoners that were sent to the camp 43,045 were killed.[5]

References

  1. ^
    Deutsches Historisches Museum
    . Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  2. The Nizkor Project
    . Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  3. ^ "Gau Thüringen". verwaltungsgeschichte.de (in German). Retrieved 24 March 2016.
  4. ISBN 1-932970-21-5
    .
  5. ^ "Buchenwald" (PDF). yadvashem.org. Yad Vashem. Retrieved 31 March 2016.

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