Map of Nazi Germany showing its administrative subdivisions (Gaue and Reichsgaue).
Capital
Neustadt an der Weinstraße (1926–1935) Saarbrücken (1935–1945)
Government
Gauleiter
• 1925–1926
Friedrich Wambsganss
• 1926–1944
Josef Bürckel
• 1944–1945
Willi Stöhr
History
• Establishment
February 1925
• Disestablishment
8 May 1945
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Bavaria
Free State of Oldenburg
Territory of the Saar Basin
Moselle (department)
Rheinland-Pfalz
Saar Protectorate
Moselle (department)
Today part of
France Germany
The Gau Westmark (English: Western March) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. From 1925 to 1933, it was a regional subdivision of the Nazi Party.
The GauWestmark (English: Western March) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. From 1925 to 1933, it was a regional subdivision...
11 March 1941 as Westmark, meaning "Western March" or "Western Boundary," with its governor styled as Reichsstatthalter in der Westmark, "Reich Governor...
Bürckel – A Gauleiter from 1926 in the Rhinepfalz and the Saarland (later, GauWestmark) from 1935. An SS-Obergruppenführer, he was Chief of Civil Administration...
Civil Administration of Lorraine) was an administrative division of the GauWestmark from 1940 to 1945. After the outbreak of the Second World War and the...
Palatinate, but united with the latter as the Gau of Saar-Palatinate (Saarpfalz). In 1942 it was renamed Westmark (Western March), as it was planned to be...
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...
virtually defunct under the Nazi regime, when Kallstadt belonged to the GauWestmark. The Palatinate was separated from Bavaria in 1946 and became a part...
incorporated into the Gau of Rheinpfalz (Rhine Palatinate) to form the Gau Pfalz-Saar (renamed Gau Saarpfalz in January 1936 and GauWestmark in December 1940)...
exception of its de facto annexation by Nazi Germany as part of the GauWestmark during World War II, that area has since remained a part of France. During...
July failed attempt to assassinate Hitler, Josef Bürckel, Gauleiter of GauWestmark where Germersheim was located, pressed Heinrich Himmler, who was the...
1936 and finally Gau Westmark in 1940 when it absorbed part of French Lorraine Gau Schlesien was divided into Gau Niederschlesien & Gau Oberschlesien in 1941...
Vienna Gauleiter of Vienna Governor of the Vienna region Gauleiter of GauWestmark Died because of ill health Ferdinand aus der Fünten December 17, 1909...
Northern France, and further divided into administrative districts such as GauWestmark. Finally, Vichy France, technically independent from Germany, tried to...
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...
were treating as fully integrated parts of the German state (Gau Baden-Elsaß and GauWestmark). Most of the rest of "Region C" was defined by the Germans...
département of Moselle, renamed CdZ-Gebiet Lothringen, was added to the GauWestmark on 30 November 1940. (German: Bezirkspräsident/today's French: Président...
Nazi party Gau Baden-Alsace. The Moselle department became the CdZ-Gebiet Lothringen, to be administered by Nazi officials of the GauWestmark. The Nazi...
Bürckel became Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) of the now expanded GauWestmark, which included the Civil Administration Area of Lorraine. At that time...