Reichsgau
Reichsgaue were state administrative districts in parts of the German Empire in the time of National Socialism-from 1939 to 1945.
Definition
Reichsgaue were under the direction of an imperial governor, the same person was usually the same for Gauleiter ( party - ) Gau of the NSDAP. They had a field derived from imperial law to set in accordance with the Reich Minister of the Interior independently by ordinance law. This is the beginning of a reorganization of the kingdom of appeal, first outside the limits of Reich territory by 1937.
Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia)
According to the law relating to the structure of the Sudeten German areas of the Reich District of Sudetenland was (initially as Sudetenland ) was formed on 15 April 1939. It was divided into urban and rural districts, which were grouped into three administrative districts.
Remember Affiliated territories (Poland )
- Danzig-West Prussia (initially West Prussia )
- Warta Country (initially poses)
The leader Decree on organization and administration of the territories governed from 26 October 1939 in " corresponding application " of the Sudetengaugesetzes the formation of the two new Reichsgaue. They, too, were divided into urban and rural districts, which were summarized in three regencies.
In the case of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia also a part of the German Empire was included in the 1937 borders in a Reichsgau with the government district of West Prussia to the first ( and last) time.
Alps and Danube Reichsgaue ( Austria )
- Carinthia
- Lower Danube ( first: Lower Austria )
- Upper Danube (initially: Upper Austria )
- Salzburg
- Styria
- Tirol -Vorarlberg
- Vienna
The Ostmark law had ordered the formation of Reichsgaue in the country Austria and their division into urban and rural districts in 1939. Due to the lower population density was apart from the division into administrative districts. The Reichsgau Greater Vienna consisted of only one community, namely the city of Vienna.
Since dragged the division of the country Austria, whose skills have been distributed to the Reich and Reichsgauebene, long time, it led to the formation of Reichsgaue only at the beginning of the year 1940.
Westmark (Pfalz, Saarland, Lorraine)
The planned Reichsgau Westmark ( Saarland / Palatinate / CdZ region Lorraine) is formally during the Second World War no longer come about. Rather, it remained until 1945 so that the Reich governor in the Westmark in Saarbrücken (formerly Reich Commissioner for the reintegration of the Saarland / Reichsstatthalter for the Saar-Palatinate ) in personal union the Saarland and the Bavarian administrative region of Palatinate managed, and also the duties of the Chief of Civil Administration for Lorraine perceived.
This area of Westmark, the old Reich territory and with Lorraine also included French territory, was therefore being managed in a consistent, but still formally disintegrated into the actual Reich ( Saarland / Bavaria ) and the CdZ region Lorraine.
Upper Rhine (Baden, Alsace )
Likewise Reichsgau Upper Rhine was planned as a merger of the Gau Baden with the Alsace, but until 1945 no longer formally came into existence. Baden and Alsace were managed together from Strasbourg. The city fell to Kehl Strasbourg, the mayor of Kehl was Assistant Secretary in Strasbourg, during the Strasbourg mayor became mayor of Kehl simultaneously. For the area of the Nazi Party was the name of the Gaus " Baden- Alsace ".
Flanders and Wallonia (Belgium )
Shortly before the end of World War II, after Belgium had already been liberated, administrations for the future provinces of Flanders and Wallonia have been created ( → Walloon Region) in the German Reich through escaped collaborators.
The competent Gauleiter were forced by the advance and last but not least the liberation by the Allies to perceive of Germany from their administrative tasks:
The Reichsgau Flanders ( without Voeren, but Comines Comines - included ) was proclaimed on 15 December 1944 the Gauleiter in exile in Germany was Jef van de Wiele. The Reichsgau Wallonia was established on December 8, 1944, the Gauleiter in exile was Léon Degrelle.