East Hanover district

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Gaue of the German Reich 1944

The Gau Ost-Hannover was a territorial administrative unit of the NSDAP .

History and structure

The Parteigau was created in the course of the Gau reorganization on October 1, 1928. From February 27, 1925 to October 1, 1928 it was called Gau Lüneburg-Stade , whose Gauleiter was the teacher Bernhard Rust . As a result of the restructuring, the Gau Ost-Hanover should be congruent with the area of ​​the Reichstag constituency 15, East Hanover. The Gau comprised an area that was bounded by the Elbe and Weser rivers as well as the Mittelland Canal and the eastern border of the Prussian province of Hanover . At the state level, the Parteigau was opposed to the upper president of the Prussian province of Hanover, SA chief Viktor Lutze until 1941 , then the Gauleiter in the southern Hanover-Braunschweig district , Hartmann Lauterbacher , with whom there were tensions over powers. These included the Lüneburg administrative region under Kurt Matthaei (1934–1943) and the Stade administrative region . Especially since the beginning of the war in 1939, the Gau became the predominant regional authority with many state competencies without becoming a Reichsgau .

The headquarters of the Gauleitung was initially Buchholz in the Nordheide , then Harburg and from 1937 Lüneburg (Gauleitung: Am Sande 5). The size of the Gaus was 18,001 km², in 1941 1,060,509 inhabitants lived here. In terms of extent, the Gau roughly corresponded to the later administrative district of Lüneburg within its borders that existed from 1978. The craft functionary Adolf Heincke was the district inspector and later senior division manager in the district administration. The important office for local politics was headed by Wilhelm Wetzel , who became mayor of Lüneburg in 1936. District economic advisor was Rudolf Rühle, the in-house counsel of IHK Harburg-Wilhelmsburg, since 1933. As Gauführerschule consisting Hermann Goering house in Steinbeck (Buchholz in der Nordheide) . From 1941 the former district leader Albert Rodegerdts , from 1944 Heinrich Schneider (Nazi functionary), was the regional trainer .

Gauleiter were

Telschow had a personality cult around him and emphasized the rural character of the Gau compared to big city influences. He also pursued huge expansion plans for Lüneburg as the main town of a Lower Saxony district , for which he even approached Albert Speer , without much success .

Deputy Gauleiter were

literature

  • Michael Ruck , Karl Heinrich Pohl (Hrsg.): Regions in National Socialism . Bielefeld 2003
  • Dirk Stegmann: National Socialism in the Province: Conditions of Promotion using the Example of the Gaus Ost-Hannover 1925-1932 . In: Against barbarism. Essays in honor of Robert W. Kempner , ed. by Rainer Eisfeld and Ingo Müller. Frankfurt am Main 1989, pp. 79-105
  • Nils Köhler: Otto Telschow - Hitler's Gauleiter in East Hanover (PDF; 245 kB). In: Website of the Bunter Fraktion Wustrow (details from the life of Telschow)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Finding aid 1940