Gau Silesia information

The Gau Silesia (German: Gau Schlesien) formed on 15 March 1925, was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1941 in the Prussian Province...

Province of Silesia. The Gau was created when the Gau Silesia was split into Lower Silesia and Upper Silesia in 1941. The majority of the former Gau became...

Province of Silesia. The Gau was created when the Gau Silesia was split into Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia on 27 January 1941. The Gau included territory...

Fritz Bracht (18 January 1899 – 9 May 1945) was the Nazi Gauleiter of Gau Upper Silesia. After training as a gardener, Bracht entered military service in...

he was Gauleiter of Gau Silesia from 1925 and Oberpräsident of the Prussian provinces of both Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia from 1933. An SA-Gruppenführer...

also served as Gauleiter of Gau Lower Silesia from 1941 to 1945 and as Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. Captured on 6 May 1945, he...

Deputy Gauleiter to Helmuth Brückner in Gau Silesia. In addition, he became the Special Plenipotentiary to Silesia of the SA Supreme Leadership. In April...

the zone of intended German settlement in north-eastern France, where a Gau or a Reichskommissariat centred on Burgundy was intended for creation, and...

Śląskie and Wyry. Afterwards, Polish Silesia was annexed to the Nazi German Reich as part of the Gau of Silesia. The Polish population was subjected to...

administrative regions in Germany, and the Gau Silesia, later subdivided into Gau Upper Silesia and Gau Lower Silesia, replaced the Prussian provinces. After...

The Gaue (singular: Gau) were the main administrative divisions of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. The Gaue were formed in 1926 as Nazi Party regional...

Auschwitz was annexed to the German Reich, as part of first Gau Silesia and from 1941 Gau Upper Silesia. The camp at Auschwitz was established in April 1940...

Wielkopolska, as well as territories divided after plebiscites such as Upper Silesia, as well as a large area east of these territories, including the city...

Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Kurtz was born in Kempa, Gau Silesia (now Kępa, Opole Voivodeship). He was ordained to the priesthood as a...

Brandenburg, Kingdom of Prussia Died 4 May 1936(1936-05-04) (aged 91) Görlitz, Gau Silesia, Nazi Germany Allegiance Prussia German Empire Service/branch Prussian...

and Silesia (later Upper Silesia), while from others new Reichsgaue Danzig-West Prussia and Wartheland were constituted. Wartheland was the only Gau constituted...

as Upper Silesia (Górny Śląsk), with Katowice serving as its capital. Despite the Silesian Voivodeship's name, most of the historic Silesia region lies...

Germany. Czech Silesia with Slezská Ostrava was incorporated into the Sudetenland Gau, while Hultschin was incorporated into Upper Silesia province. With...

Districts). On 16 November 1942, the geographical scope was reduced to the Gau level, raising the number of Reich Defense Commissioners to 42. The office...

Peter Fulde Born (1936-04-06)6 April 1936 Breslau, Gau Silesia, Nazi Germany Died 11 April 2024(2024-04-11) (aged 88) Dresden, Saxony, Germany Nationality...

Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler charged Woyrsch with organizing the SS in Gau Silesia. Woyrsch was given command of several SS-Standarten there from March...

Pit Schubert Born (1935-12-02)2 December 1935 Breslau, Gau Silesia, Germany Died 28 February 2024(2024-02-28) (aged 88) Occupation Author, climber and...

for the Weser-Ems Gau throughout this time. On 10 July 1934, Herzog was assigned the leadership of the SA-Gruppe Schlesien (Silesia), headquartered in...