Gau Main Franconia

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Gau Main Franconia

Gau of Nazi Germany

1929–1945

Flag

Coat of arms

Map of Nazi Germany showing its administrative
subdivisions (Gaue and Reichsgaue).

Capital

Würzburg

Population

• 17 May 1939^[1]

844,732

Government

Gauleiter

• 1929–1945

Otto Hellmuth

History

• Establishment

1 March 1929

• Disestablishment

8 May 1945

Preceded by

Succeeded by

Bavaria

Today part of

Germany

The Gau Main Franconia (German: Gau Mainfranken), formed as Gau Lower Franconia (German: Gau Unterfranken) on 1 March 1929 and renamed Gau Main Franconia on 30 July 1935,^[2] was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in Lower Franconia, Bavaria, from 1933 to 1945. Before that, from 1929 to 1933, it was the regional subdivision of the Nazi Party in that area.

History

The Nazi Gau (plural Gaue) system was originally established in a party conference on 22 May 1926, in order to improve administration of the party structure. From 1933 onward, after the Nazi seizure of power, the Gaue increasingly replaced the German states as administrative subdivisions in Germany.^[3]

At the head of each Gau stood a Gauleiter, a position which became increasingly more powerful, especially after the outbreak of the Second World War, with little interference from above. Local Gauleiters often held government positions as well as party ones and were in charge of, among other things, propaganda and surveillance and, from September 1944 onward, the Volkssturm and the defense of the Gau.^[3]^[4]

The position of Gauleiter in Main Franconia was held by Otto Hellmuth for the duration of the existence of the Gau, with Ludwig Pösl (1931–37) and Wilhelm Kühnreich (1937–45) as his deputies.^[5]^[6]

References

^ Bayrisches Landesamt für Statistik, accessed 26 June 2008.
^ [url=https://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/Lexikon/Mainfranken]
^ ^a ^b "Die NS-Gaue" [The Nazi Gaue]. dhm.de (in German). Deutsches Historisches Museum. Retrieved 24 March 2016.
^ "The Organization of the Nazi Party & State". nizkor.org. The Nizkor Project. Archived from the original on 9 November 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
^ "Gau Mainfranken". verwaltungsgeschichte.de (in German). Retrieved 24 March 2016.
^ "Übersicht der NSDAP-Gaue, der Gauleiter und der Stellvertretenden Gauleiter zwischen 1933 und 1945" [Overview of Nazi Gaue, the Gauleiter and assistant Gauleiter from 1933 to 1945]. zukunft-braucht-erinnerung.de (in German). Zukunft braucht Erinnerung. Retrieved 24 March 2016.

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v t e Nazi leaders of Bavaria
Reichsstatthalter of Bavaria	Franz Ritter von Epp
Minister-presidents of Bavaria	Paul Giesler Ludwig Siebert
Gauleiter of Bavaria	Josef Bürckel Paul Giesler Otto Hellmuth Karl Holz Ludwig Ruckdeschel Hans Schemm Willi Stöhr Julius Streicher Fritz Wächtler Adolf Wagner Karl Wahl
SS leaders of Bavaria	Karl von Eberstein Benno Martin Ernst-Heinrich Schmauser
List of Gaue of Nazi Germany List of Gauleiters

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