Map of Nazi Germany showing its administrative subdivisions (Gaue and Reichsgaue).
Capital
Bayreuth
Area
• 17 May 1939[1]
29,600 km2 (11,400 sq mi)
Population
• 17 May 1939[1]
2,220,873
Government
Gauleiter
• 1933–1935
Hans Schemm
• 1935–1945
Fritz Wächtler
• 1945
Ludwig Ruckdeschel
History
• Establishment
19 January 1933
• Disestablishment
8 May 1945
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Bavaria
Czechoslovakia
Bavaria
Czechoslovakia
Today part of
Germany Czech Republic
Gau Bayreuth (until June 1942, Gau Bayerische Ostmark, 'Bavarian Eastern March') was an administrative division of Nazi Germany formed by the 19 January 1933 merger of Gaue in Lower Bavaria, Upper Palatinate and Upper Franconia, Bavaria. It was in existence from 1933 to 1945.
^Bayrisches Landesamt für Statistik accessed: 26 June 2008
GauBayreuth (until June 1942, Gau Bayerische Ostmark, 'Bavarian Eastern March') was an administrative division of Nazi Germany formed by the 19 January...
1920s, Bayreuth became a center of Nazi ideology. In 1933, it was made capital of the Nazi Gau Bavarian Eastern March (Bayerische Ostmark, in 1942 Gau Bayreuth)...
who became a prominent Nazi Party official. He served as Gauleiter of GauBayreuth and Bavarian State Minister for Education and Culture until his death...
they were assigned organizationally to the surrounding Party districts: GauBayreuth, Reichsgau Sudetenland, Reichsgau Lower Danube and Reichsgau Upper Danube...
– 8 November 1986) was the Acting Nazi Gauleiter of Bayreuth during the final month of the Gau's existence before the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945...
Wächtler – Gauleiter of the eastern Bavarian administrative region of GauBayreuth. He was an Obergruppenführer in both the SA and the SS. Otto Wächter...
renamed GauBayreuth after its capital in 1942 Gau Groß-Berlin merged with Gau Potsdam to form Gau Berlin-Brandenburg in 1926 Gau Anhalt merged with Gau Elbe-Havel...
western and southern Sudetenland territories were attached to the Bavarian GauBayreuth as well as to the Austrian Reichsgaue Oberdonau and Niederdonau. After...
Troost: Building during the new Kingdom. Volume 1 Publisher of GauBayreuthBayreuth, 1938. Siegerland national-Zeitung. 29 October, 8 November, 14 December...
Moravia up between its four surrounding Gaue: Reichsgau Sudetenland GauBayreuth (Bavarian Eastern March) Reichsgau Niederdonau (Lower Danube) Reichsgau...
Dinglreiter Born (1935-10-27)27 October 1935 Vilshofen an der Donau, GauBayreuth, Germany Died 12 April 2024(2024-04-12) (aged 88) Nationality German...
when the Reichsgau system was used instead and Gau Thuringia administered the Free State and GauBayreuth administered northern Bavaria. Between 1945 and...
with the Coburger Nationalzeitung [de], a newspaper affiliated with the GauBayreuth. It and all other Coburg newspapers were either closed down or incorporated...
other areas in Germany around Nuremberg, Bamberg, Coburg, Würzburg, Hof, Bayreuth, Meiningen, Bad Mergentheim, and Crailsheim. The major subgroups are Unterostfränkisch...
the Gau Bavarian Eastern March in Bayreuth, including Deputy Economic Advisor, Gau Training Administrator for the German Labour Front (DAF), and Gau Department...
1984) was a German Nazi Party official. He served as the Acting Gauleiter of Gau Franconia between February 1940 and April 1942. Born in Nuremberg, Zimmermann...
to head two districts. His jurisdiction included his Gau and four other Bavarian Gaue (Bayreuth, Franconia, Mainfranken and Swabia) as well as the northwestern...
the meeting and was also assigned to protect the Gau office in Berlin. The SA then stormed the Gau office on Hedemannstrasse, injuring the SS men and...
stage works in leading opera houses in Europe and worldwide, such as the Bayreuth Festival where he appeared from 1986 as Tannhäuser, Stolzing in Die Meistersinger...
or -rade ("clearing"; cf. English rod, rode, royde). Examples: Roth, Bayreuth, Overath, Wernigerode. It can also be used as the prefix Rade-: Radebeul...
opera house in Munich was, without permission, adapted by Wagner for the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Semper was born into a well-to-do industrialist family in...
of Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Hildburghausen and Sonneberg, the historical Gau of Grabfeld, held by the House of Henneberg from the 11th century and later...
Mistelgau is a municipality in the district of Bayreuth in Bavaria in Germany. The eponymous village is the seat of both the municipality as well as the...
meeting and who were then assigned to protect the Gau office in Berlin. The SA then stormed the Gau office on the Hedemannstrasse, injuring the SS men...
upper Amper in Upper Bavaria, bounded in the south by the Ammergau Alps; sub-gau of Sundergau Attergau [de]: along the Ager in Upper Austria, around the Attersee...