Gau Halle-Merseburg

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Gaue of the German Reich 1944

The Gau Halle-Merseburg was an administrative unit of the NSDAP .

History and structure

The local chapter of Halle an der Saale assumed in 1925 just the NSDAP Reich leadership, other smaller groups but chose Walter Ernst (Gauleiter) to Gauleiter . In June 1926, with the help of the Halle local group leader Emil Danneberg, Paul Hinkler was commissioned as Gau-SA leader to set up and form the SA in the Gau Halle-Merseburg. On July 25, 1926, he was appointed Gauleiter. In January 1931, Rudolf Jordan was appointed. According to the deputy regulation, according to which a deputy Gauleiter was not allowed to be appointed Gauleiter in the same Gau, Jordan was appointed NSDAP Gauleiter in Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt by Adolf Hitler on April 20, 1937 after the death of Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper . The new Gauleiter of Halle-Merseburg was the deputy and since 1935 acting Gauleiter Joachim Albrecht Eggeling . From 1939 he was the representative of the Reich Defense Commissioner for Military District IV (Halle-Merseburg); from 1942 - after the reorganization of the Reich defense districts - he took over the office himself.

On the state side, Hermann Göring had been Reich Governor in the Free State of Prussia since 1933 . The power function in the Prussian province of Saxony was taken over by the chief president and SA leader Curt von Ulrich MdR from 1933 until his retirement in 1944. The district essentially consisted of the administrative district of Merseburg . On August 18, 1944, Gauleiter Eggeling was appointed senior president of the newly formed Prussian province of Halle-Merseburg with the capital Merseburg . The Thuringian Hainchen (Schkölen) also belonged to the Gau .

The Gau had around 1.5 million inhabitants, was highly industrialized, had a high percentage of voters for the KPD before 1933 and was the target of many air raids during the war. The Gauleitung sat in Halle adS, Rudolf-Jordan-Platz 1. From October 1933 Karl Simon was Gauarbeitsführer for Halle-Merseburg. In April 1945 he was promoted to senior general labor leader in the Reich Labor Service . Walter Tießler was taken over by the Reich Propaganda Ministry in 1926 as the Gau Propaganda Manager in the Gau Halle and in 1933 as the State Office Manager for Central Germany . SA leaders in the district was in 1928 Hans Weinreich . From May 1933 on Georg Tesche was MdR Gauorganisationsleiter and in January 1936 became Deputy Gauleiter and was for constituency 11 (Merseburg) in the National Socialist Reichstag. The mayor of Naumburg and later district president Friedrich Uebelhoer MdR also served as NSV district manager. Economic journalist Walter Trautmann was the regional economic advisor . The later high SS leader Ludolf-Hermann von Alvensleben was temporarily active as SA leader in the Gau and was responsible for the Eisleber Bloody Sunday on February 12, 1933 , after which he was briefly district administrator in the Eisleben district . Gauführerschulen existed in Seeburg Castle (Hassegau) , in Roitzsch (Sandersdorf-Brehna) and at Wettin Castle in Wettin . The Lichtenburg concentration camp near Torgau existed in the Gau area . Since October 14, 1933, there was a “Museum of the National Socialist Uprising” in Halle as a “memorial to the National Socialist fight for freedom”, which Gauleiter Jordan had suggested. Werner Gerhardt (Young People's Leader) , who died in 1932 , was honored as a “blood witness of the Nazi movement”.

Gauleiter were

Deputy Gauleiter were

literature

  • Albert Rudolph : Between Harz and Lausitz. A home book from Gau Halle-Merseburg , Hirt, Breslau 1935
  • Bruno Czarnowski : Our way in the Halle-Merseburg district , 1936.
  • Dieter Lent: Jordan, Rudolf . In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (ed.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon: 19th and 20th centuries . Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1996, p. 306. ISBN 3-7752-5838-8

Movie

  • Resumes. Rudolf Jordan and Albrecht Eggeling - The Gauleiter of the NSDAP in Saxony-Anhalt. Documentation, Germany, 2007, 45 min., Script and direction: Ernst-Michael Brandt, production: MDR , first broadcast: November 11, 2007, table of contents ( memento from January 2, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) from MDR

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Address book NSDAP 1940
  2. ↑ Seeburg Castle in the Mansfeld region
  3. ↑ picture postcard
  4. ↑ picture postcard
  5. ↑ J. Scherrieble (ed.): Der Rote Ochse Halle (Saale): political justice 1933-1945 / 1945-1989 , Berlin 2008 online