German Nazi politician, Gauleiter, SS-Obergruppenführer (1897–1946)
Arthur Greiser
Greiser in 1934
Reichsstatthalter of Wartheland
In office 2 November 1939 – 8 May 1945
Appointed by
Adolf Hitler
Preceded by
Position created
Succeeded by
Position abolished
Gauleiter of Wartheland
In office 21 October 1939 – 8 May 1945
Appointed by
Adolf Hitler
Preceded by
Position created
Succeeded by
Post abolished
President of the Free City of Danzig Senate
In office 23 November 1934 – 23 August 1939
Preceded by
Hermann Rauschning
Succeeded by
Albert Forster (as Head of State)
Personal details
Born
22 January 1897 Schroda, Province of Posen Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, now Środa Wielkopolska, Poland
Died
21 July 1946 (aged 49) Fort Winiary, Poznań, Republic of Poland
Cause of death
Execution by hanging
Political party
NSDAP (#166635)
Paramilitary service
SS (#10795)
Military service
Rank
SS-Obergruppenführer (Lieutenant General)
Arthur Karl Greiser (22 January 1897 – 21 July 1946) was a Nazi German politician, SS-Obergruppenführer, Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) of the German-occupied territory of Wartheland. He was one of the persons primarily responsible for organizing the Holocaust in occupied Poland and numerous other crimes against humanity. He was arrested by the Americans in 1945, and was tried, convicted and executed by hanging in Poland in 1946 for his crimes, most notably genocide.
Arthur Karl Greiser (22 January 1897 – 21 July 1946) was a Nazi German politician, SS-Obergruppenführer, Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor)...
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it on 26 October 1939 as the Reichsgau Posen. SS Obergruppenfuhrer ArthurGreiser became Gauleiter on 21 October. He would remain in this post until the...
Gdańsk, Poland), replacing ArthurGreiser who then became the Deputy Gauleiter. This touched off a feud between them and Greiser was to remain Forster's...
brought before the Supreme National Tribunal in 1946–1948: The trial of ArthurGreiser, head of the Free City of Danzig and later, governor of Reichsgau Wartheland...
Wartheland, established on the initiative of the local civil administrator ArthurGreiser with Himmler's approval; it began operations in December 1941 using...
Rauschning was removed from his position by Forster and replaced by ArthurGreiser in November 1934. He later appealed to the public not to vote for the...
administrative powers to Chiefs of Civil Administration (CdZ). Hitler appointed ArthurGreiser to become the CdZ of the Posen military district, and Danzig's Gauleiter...
administrative powers to Chiefs of Civil Administration (CdZ). Hitler appointed ArthurGreiser to become the CdZ of the Posen military district, and Danzig's Gauleiter...
camp at Chełmno, and resumed the gassing operations on the request of ArthurGreiser, for the final ten transports of ghettoised Jews. In 1944, Lange aided...
1944) - was rehabilitated by the Supreme Court on 17 January 2000. ArthurGreiser, a Nazi leader in Danzig and later Gauleiter in the Warthegau region...
deportations of men, women, and children. In the Wartheland, regional leader ArthurGreiser, with the encouragement of Reinhard Heydrich and Martin Bormann, launched...
created by decision of the Reichsstatthalter of the Poznań region, ArthurGreiser. It began functioning at some time around October 1939. The prisoners...
economic organisations should be allowed to remain in existence. — ArthurGreiser, Vice-President of the Senate, This was in conjunction with a subsequent...
which Kershaw traces how the ethnic cleansing campaign of Gauleiter ArthurGreiser in the Warthegau region annexed to Germany from Poland in 1939 led to...
the capital of the General Government. In November 1940, Gauleiter ArthurGreiser of Reichsgau Wartheland argued that the counties of Tomaschow Mazowiecki...
Germanisation of Poland: SS Obergruppenführer ArthurGreiser welcomes the millionth Eastern European Volksdeutscher to be resettled in annexed Polish territories...
131 at different stages key personalities were Hermann Rauschning, ArthurGreiser and Albert Forster, though all were party subordinates of Adolf Hitler...
Danzig, was removed from his position by Albert Forster and replaced by ArthurGreiser in November 1934. Rauschning appealed to the public not to vote for...
Austria's Anschluss ("union") with Germany, its last pre-Anschluss Chancellor, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, became its first Reichsstatthalter and Führer der Österreichischen...
by two feuding leaders, Albert Forster and ArthurGreiser. Forster was the gauleiter of Danzig while Greiser served as the Senate president. The American...
the 1920s, Rauschning was close to the "Young Conservative" movement of Arthur Moeller van den Bruck and affiliated with the German National People's Party...
north-western Poland, Albert Forster of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia and ArthurGreiser of Reichsgau Wartheland, to Germanise their areas, with "no questions...
Senate to use emergency decrees without the approval of the Volkstag. ArthurGreiser was made Senate President (Senatspräsident) in 1935–1939. As Senate...
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