Map of Nazi Germany showing its administrative subdivisions (Gaue and Reichsgaue)
Capital
Vienna
Population
• 1939
1,920,390
Government
Gauleiter
• 1938–1939
Odilo Globočnik
• 1939–1940
Joseph Bürckel
• 1940–1945
Baldur von Schirach
History
• Anschluss
12 March 1938
• German surrender
8 May 1945
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Vienna
Lower Austria
Vienna
Lower Austria
Today part of
Austria
The Reichsgau Vienna (German: Reichsgau Wien) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany based in Vienna, Austria. It existed between 1938 and 1945. Parts of Lower Austria were annexed to establish Greater Vienna, which then became the biggest city of Nazi Germany by area.
The Reichsgau Vienna (German: ReichsgauWien) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany based in Vienna, Austria. It existed between 1938 and 1945...
A Reichsgau (plural Reichsgaue) was an administrative subdivision created in a number of areas annexed by Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1945. The term...
Died in September 1944 Gau Saar 1933–1935 Gau Pfalz–Saar 1935–1944 ReichsgauWien 1939–1940 Helmuth Brückner Gau Schlesien 1925–1934 Died in Soviet captivity...
needed] He was appointed by Hitler as Gauleiter and Reich Governor of ReichsgauWien, and moved with his family to Vienna. In 1943, Henriette saw a group...
known as the Schirach-Bunker (named after the Nazi governor for the ReichsgauWien, Baldur von Schirach), the facilities were constructed between 1942...
and Annihilation, 1941-1944, Berghahn Books, 2009, p. 190 Rolf Jehke: ReichsgauWien, Herdecke "Obergruppenführer/Generale der SS - Lexikon der Wehrmacht"...
Lischka Personal information Born (1944-01-30)30 January 1944 Vienna, ReichsgauWien, Germany Died 14 January 2024(2024-01-14) (aged 79) Occupation Judoka...
Straßennamen Wiens seit 1860 als „Politische Erinnerungsorte“. Verein zur Wissenschaftlichen Aufarbeitung der Zeitgeschichte, Wien & Stadt Wien. pp. 300–302...
"Namenbuch der Stadt Wien. Die Namen der Straßen und Gassen, Plätze und Höfe", by Friedrich Umlauf, p 110 Handbuch ReichsgauWien, Bände 65-66, p 253 (1944)...
the surrounding Party districts: Gau Bayreuth, Reichsgau Sudetenland, Reichsgau Lower Danube and Reichsgau Upper Danube. These two separate government and...
Iron Cross, 2nd Class. In 1940, Schirach was appointed Gauleiter of the Reichsgau Vienna; Artur Axmann succeeded him as leader of the Hitler Youth. A virulent...
territories on 21 October 1938. On 1 May 1939 a regular 'domestic' Reichsgau, Reichsgau Sudetenland was created; Henlein stayed on as Reichsstatthalter until...
SS and 40 percent of the staff at the Nazi extermination camps. In the Reichsgau, besides the main camp KZ-Mauthausen, there were numerous sub-camps in...
the title of qualified engineer, Karl Schwanzer was moved to Rybnik in Reichsgau Oberschlesien in autumn 1940. In Sohrau (today Zory), only a few kilometers...
Jugendlicheneuthanasie im Reichsgau Sudetenland und im Protektorat Böhmen und Mähren. ("Child and Youth Euthanasia in the Reichsgau of Sudetenland and in...
and the school was relocated. Instead, the Gau administration of the Reichsgau Niederdonau used the school building as its headquarters. In the meanwhile...
independent] Austria' and 'the forcible separation of the Alpine-Danube Reichsgau from the Greater German state ("Großdeutsche(n) Reich")'. In December...
Germany. To take matters further, the FK Austria Wien was also renamed in April 1938, to SC Ostmark Wien. This step however was revoked two months later...
1938 it belonged to Favoriten. When Vienna was reorganized to form a new Reichsgau in Nazi Germany, inner city borders were reassigned and the Arsenal as...
Günter (1971). Friedrich Flick der Grosse (in German) (3 ed.). Bern-München-Wien: Scherz. Priemel, Kim Christian (2007). Flick – Eine Konzerngeschichte vom...
Grundlsee and Altaussee) was incorporated into the new administrative unit Reichsgau Oberdonau (Upper Austria). The autonomy of the municipalities Bad Aussee...
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