Weser-Ems district

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Gaue of the German Reich 1944

The Gau Weser-Ems was an administrative unit of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP).

History and structure

The (party) Gau was created in the course of the Gau reorganization on October 1, 1928. The restructuring should make the Gau congruent with the area of ​​the Reichstag constituency 14. The Gau comprised the administrative districts Aurich and Osnabrück , from the Free State of Oldenburg the Oldenburg region and the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen . At the state level, from 1933 onwards the Gauleiter was the President of the Prussian Province of Hanover , while the Gauleiter was also the Reich Governor for Bremen and Oldenburg. Georg Joel became Prime Minister in Oldenburg . With the law on the rebuilding of the Reich of January 30, 1934, Bremen was added to the Reichsgau Weser-Ems under the Reich Governor and thus lost its political independence. The later Gauleiter Paul Wegener became NSDAP district leader in Bremen in March 1933 .

The seat of the Gauleitung was in the city of Oldenburg (Oldb) , Ratsherr-Schulze-Strasse in the Adolf-Hitler-Haus .

Were in the Gauleitung

The later head of the Reich Main Office, Heinrich Walkenhorst, was head of the Gau organization and head of the NSDAP's Gaustab in Oldenburg, and thus the Gauleiter's "secretary". Gau inspectors were Jacques Groeneveld and Erich Drescher (both members of the Reichstag at the same time), Gau economic advisors to the manufacturer Hermann Fromm. Gauführerschulen existed in Pewsum ( Manningaburg ) and in Bremen-Lesum (House Krähnholm), whereby Röver wanted to build a school on the Bookholzberg in Stedingerland , where an open-air theater was opened in 1934. In Bad Essen there was another Gauführerschule for the southern part.

See also

literature

  • Michael Rademacher: The district leaders of the NSDAP in the Gau Weser-Ems. Tectum-Verlag, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-8288-8848-8 (also dissertation, University of Osnabrück 2005).
  • Michael Rademacher: Who was who in the Weser-Ems Gau. The officials of the NSDAP and their organizations in Oldenburg, Bremen, East Frisia and the Osnabrück-Emsland region. Revised new edition. BoD, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2909-7 .

Web links

Single receipts

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  2. ^ The district of Wittlage