Map of Nazi Germany showing its administrative subdivisions (Gaue and Reichsgaue).
Capital
Weimar
Government
Gauleiter
• 1925–1927
Artur Dinter
• 1927–1945
Fritz Sauckel
History
• Establishment
6 April 1925
• Disestablishment
8 May 1945
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Thuringia
Thuringia
Bavaria
Saxony-Anhalt (1945–1952)
Today part of
Germany
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.
The GauThuringia (German: Gau Thüringen) formed on 6 April 1925, was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in the Free State of Thuringia from 1933...
1894 – 16 October 1946) was a German Nazi politician, Gauleiter of GauThuringia from 1927 and the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (Arbeitseinsatz)...
1948) was a German writer and Nazi politician who was the Gauleiter of GauThuringia. Dinter was born in Mulhouse, in Alsace-Lorraine, German Empire (now...
and Gauleiter of Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick (1928–1940). He was an SA-Obergruppenführer. Fritz Sauckel – Gauleiter of GauThuringia, Reichsstatthalter...
airspace navigation. In 1936 sky lanterns were made illegal in the GauThuringia, Germany, based on the Landespolizeiverordnung über Papierballons mit...
District) IV that included his Gau as well as Gau Halle-Merseburg, northern Reichsgau Sudetenland and part of GauThuringia. On 16 November 1942, the jurisdiction...
Austria-Hungary Died 30 May 1940(1940-05-30) (aged 58) Buchenwald, GauThuringia, Germany Sainthood Feast day 13 August Venerated in Roman Catholic Church...
used instead and GauThuringia administered the Free State and Gau Bayreuth administered northern Bavaria. Between 1945 and 1990 Thuringia was in the Soviet...
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...
a regional leader of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) who served as the head of a Gau or Reichsgau. Gauleiter was the third-highest rank in the Nazi political...
resigned. Marschler went on to become the Deputy Gauleiter to Sauckel in GauThuringia. In addition, Marschler was Burgermeister (Mayor) of Ohrdruf from 1931...
Silesia, Prussia Died October 31, 1936(1936-10-31) (aged 74) Erfurt, GauThuringia, Germany Allegiance German Empire Branch Imperial German Army Years of...
Thüringen einen Gau Winidon gegeben?: Zeitschrift des Vereins für Thüringische Geschichte und Altertumskunde [Was there a Gau Winidon in Thuringia? : Journal...
Thuringians", as they set about establishing their power over the older Duchy of Thuringia in the west. The Sorbian march had already lost its importance around...
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...
called Flächenländer ("area states") and include Bavaria, Saxony, and Thuringia, which describe themselves as Freistaaten ("free states"). The Federal...
was a Nazi Party (NSDAP) official who served as Gauleiter of Gau Hesse-Nassau South and Gau Hesse-Nassau as well as in many governmental positions, including...
Conference. On 7 March 1926 his Gau expanded by merging with the Gau Westphalia headed by Franz Pfeffer von Salomon. Now renamed Gau Rhine-Ruhr (and still later...
state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its...
football league in the Prussian province of Saxony and the German states of Thuringia and Anhalt from 1933 to 1945, all located in the center (German:Mitte)...
during the 1960s and early 1970s. Bonsack was born in Waltershausen, Thuringia on 26 December 1941. He won four Winter Olympic medals in men's luge with...