German Gaue

Sachsen

Gauleiter

22 Mar 1925 - 07 May 1945 Martin Mutschmann ............. 1879-1947

Salzburg

01 May 1939               Reichsgau Salzburg


Gauleiter

11 Mar      - 24 May 1938 Anton Wintersteiger ........... 1900-1990

24 May 1938 - 29 Nov 1941 Friedrich Rainer .............. 1903-1947

29 Nov 1941 - 04 May 1945 Gustav Walter Scheel .......... 1907-1979

Schlesien

27 Jan 1941               Divided into Upper and Lower Silesia


Gauleiter

22 Mar 1925 -    Dec 1934 Helmuth Brückner .............. 1896-1951

   Dec 1934 -    May 1940 Josef Wagner .................. 1899-1945

27 Apr 1940 - 27 Jan 1941 Fritz Bracht .................. s.a

Schleswig-Holstein

Gauleiter

26 Feb 1925 - 08 May 1945 Heinrich Lohse ................ 1896-1964

Schwaben

Gauleiter

01 Oct 1928 - 28 Apr 1945 Karl Wahl ..................... 1892-1981

Steiermark

01 May 1939               Reichsgau Steiernmark


Gauleiter

25 Nov 1928 - 1934        Walther Philipp Anton

                           Oberhaidacher ................ 1896-1945

       1934 - 22 May 1938 Sepp Helfrich ................. 1900-1963

22 May 1938 - 08 May 1945 Sigfried Uiberreither ......... 1908-1984

Süd-Hanover-Braunschweig

Gauleiter

01 Oct 1928 -    Nov 1940 Bernhard Rust ................. 1883-1945

   Nov 1940 - 08 May 1945 Hartmann Lauterbacher ......... 1909-1988

Sudetenland

Military Governor

01 Oct      - 20 Oct 1938 Wilhelm Keitel ................ 1882-1946

Reichsstatthalter

21 Oct 1938 - 04 May 1945 Konrad Henlein ................ 1898-1945

Tirol-Vorarlberg

       1928               Parteigau Tirol und Vorarlberg

01 May 1939               Reichsgau Tirol-Vorarlberg


Gauleiter

27 Nov 1932 - 03 May 1945 Franz Hofer ................... 1902-1975

Thüringen

Gauleiter

06 Apr 1925 - 30 Sep 1927 Artur Dinter .................. 1876-1948

30 Sep 1927 - 08 May 1945 Ernst Friedrich Christoph

                           Sauckel  ..................... 1894-1946

Wallonien

15 Dec 1944               Reichsgau Wallonien

   Jan 1945               Axis troops surrender

09 May 1945               Restored to Belgium


Gauleiter

15 Dec 1944 - 02 May 1945 Léon Joseph Marie Ignace

                           Degrelle ..................... 1906-1994

Wartheland

26 Oct 1939               Reichsgau Wartheland


Military governor

12 Sep      - 25 Oct 1939 Alfred von Vollard-Bockelberg . 1874-1945

Reichsstatthalter

26 Oct 1939 - 23 Feb 1945 Arthur Karl Greiser ........... 1897-1946

Weser-Ems

Gauleiter

01 Oct 1928 - 15 May 1942 Carl Georg Röver .............. 1889-1942

27 May 1942 - 08 May 1945 Paul Wegener .................. 1908-1993

Westfalen-Nord

Gauleiter

01 Jan 1931 - 11 Apr 1945 Gustav Alfred Julius Meyer .... 1891-1945

Westfalen-Süd

Gauleiter

01 Jan 1931 - 09 Nov 1941 Julius Wagner ................. 1899-1945

09 Nov 1941 - 26 Jan 1943 Paul Giesler .................. 1895-1945

26 Jan 1943 - 13 Apr 1945 Alfred Hoffmann ............... 1907-1972

Westmark

       1925               Gau Rheinpfalz

       1926               Gau Saar

       1935               Gau Pfalz-Saar

       1936               Gau Saarpfalz

       1940               Gau Westmark


Gauleiter

       1925 - 13 Mar 1926 Friedrich Wambsganß ........... 1886-1979

13 Apr 1926 - 28 Sep 1944 Josef Bürckel ................. 1895-1944

28 Sep 1944 -    Mar 1945 Wilhelm Stöhr ................. 1903-1994

Wien

01 May 1939               Reichsgau Wien


Gauleiter

11 Mar 1938 - 30 Jan 1939 Odilo Lotario Globocnik ....... 1904-1945

30 Jan 1939 - 02 Aug 1940 Josef Bürckel ................. 1895-1944

08 Aug 1940 - 08 May 1945 Baldur Benedikt von Schirach .. 1907-1974

 

Obermeister

11 Mar 1938 - 14 Dec 1940 Hermann Neubacker

14 Dec 1940 - 30 Dec 1943 Philipp Wilhelm Jung

30 Dec 1943 - 06 Apr 1945 Hanns Blaschke

13 Apr      - 16 Apr 1945 Rudolf Prikry

Württemberg-Hohenzollern

Gauleiter

08 Jul 1925 - 09 Jan 1928 Eugen Munder .................. 1899-1952

01 Feb 1928 - 08 May 1945 Wilhelm Murr .................. 1888-1945

General Government (Poland)

01 Sep 1939               German invasion of Poland

17 Sep 1939               Soviet invasion and occupation of Eastern Poland

26 Oct 1939 - 17 Jan 1945 Government General of the Occupied Polish Territories

31 Jul 1940               Renamed General Government

21 Jun 1941               Germany occupies the Soviet annexed territories 

   Jul 1944               Start of Soviet invasion and German retreat

01 Aug      - 02 Oct 1944 Warsaw Uprising

17 Jan 1945               Warsaw occupied by Soviet forces

19 Jan 1945               Krakow occupied by Soviet forces, General Government disintergates

22 Jan 1945               Last German troops surender

 

Commander-in-chief for Army Group North and South

29 Sep      - 02 Oct 1939 Generalfeldmarschall Moritz Albrecht Franz

                           Friedrich Fedor von Bock ...................... 1880-1945

Commanders-in-chief East

03 Oct      - 19 Oct 1939 Generalfeldmarschall Karl Rudolf Gerd

                           von Rundstedt ................................. 1875-1953

20 Oct      - 25 Oct 1939 Col-Gen. Johannes Albrecht Blaskowitz .......... 1883-1948

Governor-general 

26 Oct 1939 - 17 Jan 1945 Hans Michael Frank ............................. 1901-1946