Gauleiter

A Gauleiter was the party leader of a regional branch of the NSDAP. This persons were the head of a Gau or of a Reichsgau. The German word Leiter means leader. A Gau is the old German word for a region in Germany.

Gauleiter Media

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  Gauleiter flag or vehicle insignia

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  Joseph Goebbels, the Reich Minister of Propaganda, headed the Party organization in Berlin as Gauleiter from 28 October 1926 to his suicide on 1 May 1945.

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  Organizational Chart of a typical Gauleitung (Gau Leadership) Office

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  Adolf Wagner, Gauleiter in Munich, the headquarters of the Nazi Party, from 1 November 1929. Though incapacitated by a stroke in June 1942, he remained titular Gauleiter until his death on 12 April 1944.

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  Fritz Sauckel was the Gauleiter of Thuringia, from 30 September 1927 to 8 May 1945 and the Reichsstatthalter of Thuringia from 5 May 1933. Also the Reich's General Plenipotentiary for Labor Deployment, he was executed as a war criminal after the Nuremberg trials.

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  Karl Kaufmann was the Gauleiter of Hamburg, Germany's second most populous city, from 15 April 1929 to the end of the Nazi regime on 8 May 1945. He was also the Reichsstatthalter of Hamburg from 16 May 1933. After serving a prison sentence for war crimes, he became involved in neo-Nazi political activities in post-war West Germany.

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  Julius Streicher, was the Gauleiter in Nuremberg from 2 April 1925 until removed from office for corruption on 16 February 1940. A notorious and virulent antisemite, he was executed as a war criminal after the Nuremberg trials.

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  The rank insignia for Gauleiter and Reichsleiter, before and after the 1939 insignia change

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  Early Nazi Party insignia from 1930, showing the first badge of rank for Gauleiter (centre-left, red background)

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  The rank insignia of the Nazi party in the 1930s; the Deputy Gauleiter insignia is displayed as a single oak leaf.