Gau Pomerania

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Gaue of the German Reich 1944

The Gau Pommern was an administrative unit of the NSDAP .

History and structure

The Gau was created as early as 1922/23 under the mathematics professor, printer and newspaper owner ( North German observer ) Vahlen, but there were many disputes. The area corresponded to that of the Reichstag constituency 6 Pomerania. The Gau comprised the Prussian province of Pomerania with Western and Western Pomerania. From May 16, 1933, the Parteigau was opposed to the Reich Governor for Prussia and Pomerania, Hermann Göring . On July 30, 1934, however, the Gauleiter was also appointed President of the Province, blurring the boundaries between party and state. The capital of the district was Stettin (Gauleitung: Landeshaus, entrance to Schubert-Straße).

On October 1, 1938, the boundaries of the Prussian province of Pomerania were redrawn: The province of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia was dissolved and, with most of the districts, integrated into the province of Pomerania as the new administrative district Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia , based in Schneidemühl . In addition, the district of Arnswalde and the district of Friedeberg from the province of Brandenburg and the Pomeranian districts of the district of Dramburg and the district of Neustettin were incorporated into the new administrative district.

Gauleiter were

Vahlen was close to the left-wing National Socialist brothers Otto and Gregor Strasser and was therefore finally ousted by Adolf Hitler in 1927. Gauleiter Swede brought many employees with him from Coburg who took on functions in the Gau: Arno Fischer as regional building officer, Kuno Popp as Gau propaganda leader and head of the Pomeranian regional office of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, Alfred Seidler as Gau treasurer, Johannes Künzel as Gauobmann of the German Labor Front , Emil Mazuw as staff leader of SS Section XIII and Werner Faber as the Lord Mayor of Szczecin. Kurt Martius came from Saxony , from 1934 to 1938 Gauamtsleiter of the Office for Local Politics . The President of the IHK Stettin Erwin Fengler became a regional economic advisor . A Gaufführer school existed in Wartin near Casekow . The Nazi teachers' association had a training camp in Miedzyzdroje .

Schwede-Coburg's ambition was noticeable because he set the euthanasia in motion independently before Action T4 and declared his Gau in 1940 to be the first to be "Jew-free". He only fulfilled his task as Reich Defense Commissioner in 1944/45 with many perseverance calls.

literature

  • Gauleitung (Swede): Pomerania under construction in 1935 online
  • Herbert Gaede: Pomerania , Berlin 1940
  • Kyra T. Inachin : The Gau Pomerania. A Prussian province as a Nazi Gau . In: Jürgen John , Horst Möller , Thomas Schaarschmidt (eds.): The NS-Gaue. Regional middle authorities in the centralized “leader state”. Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, pp. 280-293 ISBN 978-3-486-58086-0
  • Kyra T. Inachin : "Martyrs with a small group of faithful". The first Gauleiter of the NSDAP in Pomerania Karl Theodor Vahlen , in: VfZ 49 (2001), p. 31ff online
  • Susanne Wiborg, Jan Peter Wiborg: Faith, Leader, Hope: The Downfall of Clara S. , Kunstmann, Munich 2015 online version (at the end of the war in Gau Pommern)

Web links

Single receipts

  1. Child soldiers, in: Die Zeit 2014/13