Gau Südhannover-Braunschweig

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Südhannover-Braunschweig , also Süd-Hannover-Braunschweig, was the name of a party member of the NSDAP from 1928 to 1945 . It was named after the congruent Reichstag constituency of the Weimar Republic South-Hanover-Braunschweig , which has existed since 1920 .

Structure and history

The Parteigau was created as part of an organizational reform of the NSDAP by amalgamating the Gaue Süd-Hannover (founded in 1925 under Ludolf Haase ) and Braunschweig on October 1, 1928. The Gau capital and thus the administrative seat was Hanover . The Gauleitung officiated in the Dincklagestrasse 3–5 in Hanover-Königsworth. The Parteigau with the serial number 33 had an area of ​​14,553 km² and 2,136,961 inhabitants (as of 1941).

Gauleiter were

On the state side, the Gauleiter faced various authorities in the territories from 1933, which led to competence problems: firstly, the Upper President Viktor Lutze of the Prussian province of Hanover with the administrative districts of Hanover (under Rudolf Diels 1936-1942) and Hildesheim (under Hermann Muhs 1933-1937 ) and secondly the Reich Governor Friedrich Wilhelm Loeper (and following) in the state of Braunschweig . Braunschweig also had its own Prime Minister Dietrich Klagges , who unsuccessfully set up his own Gaus Ostfalen . The party was given more and more state functions, so that the borders increasingly disappeared. Gauleiter Lauterbacher himself became President of the Province of Hanover in 1941.

In the Reichstag of the cottages very successful Goslar agitator and Nazi party district leader was for the same constituency 1928 to 1933 Werner Willikens chosen that rose after 1933, State Secretary at the Berlin Ministry of Agriculture. District inspector was Jann Blankemeyer , district economic advisor (1937–1941) to banker Julius Albert Maier (1890–1944), who had profited greatly from " Aryanizations ". The Gauleitung employed the propaganda leader Leopold Gutterer , who organized the Reichserntedankfest in 1933 on the Bückeberg near Hameln. Near Helmstedt was the Gauschulungsburg of the Hitler Youth, Burg Campen near Flechtorf , where training for Hitler Youth leaders took place between 1932 and 1937, which became a model for cadre training. In Wennigsen (Deister) the Gauführerschule "Bernhard Rust" existed to train the NSDAP officials. The head of the regional training course in 1933 was the architect and ideological lecturer August Schirmer .

The Gauleitungen were significantly involved in the persecution of the Jews and war measures. So were in the action Lauterbacher on 3./4. In September 1941, the more than 1,000 Jews still living in Hanover were crammed into 14 Jewish houses before the deportations began in December 1941 .

The Gau Südhannover-Braunschweig was recorded on the maps of the German School Atlas from 1942, which was printed by Westermann Verlag on behalf of the "Reich Office for School and Teaching Literature".

The Gau principle was transferred to many regional state institutions and associations:

In Gauarbeitsbezirk Südhannover-Braunschweig according to data employed by the September 30, 1944 some 252,000 forced laborers, including about 42,600 in the district of the Labor Office Brunswick and 48,780 in the District Employment Office Hannover. The remainder were spread over the employment office districts of Alfeld (14,970), Bassum (10,488), Goslar (15,044), Göttingen (8,673), Hameln (10,805), Hildesheim (19,485), Nienburg (13,107), Northeim (19,058) and Watenstedt-Salzgitter (38.209).

The "National Socialist Teachers Association Gau Südhannover-Braunschweig" was the regional representative of the NS teachers association , which carried out training courses and published publications and textbooks. The head of training was the director of the Bernhard Rust University Braunschweig, Friedrich Berger .

literature

  • Hanna Behrend: The relations between the NSDAP headquarters and the Gauverband Süd-Hannover-Braunschweig 1921-1933. A contribution to the leadership structure of the National Socialist Party. (= European university publications . Series III. History and its auxiliary sciences. Volume 146.) PD Lang, Frankfurt / Main 1981, ISBN 3-820-46867-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From the Weimar Republic to the Present on niedersachsen.de, accessed on February 27, 2014.
  2. ↑ Address list (from 1945 on short street in Mitte)
  3. ↑ Bernhard Rust on lwl.org, accessed on February 27, 2014. (Biography)
  4. ↑ Hartmann Lauterbacher in the Munzinger archive , accessed on February 27, 2014 ( beginning of article freely available)
  5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. The Gau Südhannover-Braunschweig. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ^ Andreas Kraas: Teachers' camp 1932–1945: political function and pedagogical design , Klinkhardt 2004, p. 91f
  7. ^ Property Wennigser Mark on the Sorsum - Wunstorf road - formerly Technical University of Hanover, BA Reich Treasurer NSDAP
  8. ^ W. Leonhardt: Hanoverian stories
  9. ^ Reich Office for School and Teaching Literature: German School Atlas. Home part of Gau Südhannover-Braunschweig. Westermann, Braunschweig 1942, OCLC 248770625 .
  10. ↑ The Gauverband Südhannover Brunswick was in the years 1933-1937 to shorthand the rallies for the Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick . (See Gauverband Südhannover Brunswick (ed German stenographer shaft)... Demonstrations for the Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick. Goettingen 1933- 1937, OCLC 312197334 ) and in 1939 the communications of the Gauverband Südhannover-Braunschweig of the German Stenographers . See German Stenographers' Association. Gauverband Südhannover-Braunschweig. (Ed.): Communications of the Gauverband Südhannover-Braunschweig of the German Stenographers. Hanover-Ricklingen 1939, OCLC 312197014
  11. ↑ Nazi forced laborers in the German Reich. in: Institute for Contemporary History (Hrsg.): Quarterly Issues for Contemporary History. Oldenbourg, Munich 1949, issue 4, ISSN  0042-5702 , p. 675.
  12. ↑ National Socialist Teachers Association Gau Südhannover-Braunschweig on worldcat.org, accessed on February 27, 2014 (list of publications)