Gau Franconia

Infobox Former Subdivision
conventional_long_name = "Gau Franken"
Gau Franconia
common_name = Gau Franken
subdivision =

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image_map_caption = Map of Nazi Germany showing its administrative subdivisions, the "Gaue" and "Reichsgaue"
national_anthem=
capital = Nuremberg
stat_area1=
stat_year1 = 17 May 1939 [ [http://www.statistik.bayern.de/ Bayrisches Landesamt für Statistik] accessed: 26 June 2008]
stat_pop1 = 1,065,122
p1= Bavaria
flag_p1 = Flag of Bavaria (lozengy).svg
s1 = Bavaria
flag_s1 = Flag of Bavaria (lozengy).svg
event_start = Establishment
year_start = 1933
event_end = Disestablishment
year_end = 1945
event1 =
date_event1 = 30 January 1933
event2 =
date_event2 = 8 May 1945
pol_subdiv =
title_leader = Gauleiter
leader1 = Julius Streicher
year_leader1 = 1933 - 1944
leader2 = Karl Holz
year_leader2 = 1944 - 1945

Gau Franconia (German:"Gau Franken"), was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in Middle Franconia, Bavaria from 1933 to 1945. Previous to that, since 1926, it was the regional subdivision of the Nazi Party in this region.

History

The "Gau" was estblished in 1929 under the leadership of Julius Streicher, who was then "Gauleiter" of the "Gau Nürnberg-Fürth".

Streicher was disgraced in 1940 but no new "Gauleiter" was appointed until November 1944, when Karl Holz took the post.

Gauleiter

* Julius Streicher - 1929 to 16 February 1940
* Hans Zimmermann 16 February 1940 to 4 April 1942, "acting"
* Karl Holz 19 March 1942 to 20 April 1945, "acting until November 1944"

ee also

* List of Gaue of Nazi Germany

ources

* [http://www.shoa.de/content/view/544/41/ Shoa.de - List of Gaue and Gauleiter] (in German)
* [http://www.dhm.de/lemo/html/nazi/innenpolitik/gaue/ Die NS Gaue] (in German) Deutsches Historisches Museum website
* [http://www.verwaltungsgeschichte.de/gau_abc.html Die Gaue der NSDAP] (in German)

References