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A Gauleiter was the party leader of a regional branch of the NSDAP (more commonly known as the Nazi Party) or the head of a Gau or of a Reichsgau.
The German word Leiter means leader, whilst Gau was an old word for a region of the Reich, once ruled by a Frankish Gaugraf; it translates most closely to the English shire. Gau was one of the many outdated words from medieval German history that the Nazis revived for their own purposes.
The title of Gauleiter was first established in 1925 after the Nazi Party reorganized following the failed Beer Hall Putsch. By 1928, Gauleiter had also become a Nazi paramilitary rank, and would eventually become the second highest such position, ranking only below the rank of Reichsleiter.
The insignia for the rank of Gauleiter consisted of two oak leaves worn on a brown colored collar patch.
The Stellvertreter-Gauleiter,or 'Deputy-Gauleiter,' wore a single oak leaf, similar to a Gauleiter.
In theory, a Gauleiter was merely a representative of the Nazi Party who served to coordinate regional Nazi party events and also served to "advise" the local government. In practice, Gauleiters were the unquestioned rulers of their particular areas of responsibility. The legal governmental establishment merely existed as a rubber stamp for the Gauleiter.
The Gauleiter was the highest ranking political leader at the Gau level of political administration within the Reich, with the Reich (National) level the highest, Gau (Shire / Prefecture / Province) second highest, Kreis ('circle', i.e. District / County) third highest and Ort level (municipal) the lowest. There were two additional, lower local levels (Block and Zelle '(party cell'). Political leaders from the Ort level and higher wore official uniforms, with the piping and background color of the uniform collar tabs indicating the administrative level.
All political leaders working at Gau level had rhomboid-shaped collar tabs with red facings (not brown), with a dark wine-red (burgundy) colored piping around the outer edges*.
The German word Leiter means leader, whilst Gau was an old word for a region of the Reich, once ruled by a Frankish Gaugraf; it translates most closely to the English shire. Gau was one of the many outdated words from medieval German history that the Nazis revived for their own purposes.
The title of Gauleiter was first established in 1925 after the Nazi Party reorganized following the failed Beer Hall Putsch. By 1928, Gauleiter had also become a Nazi paramilitary rank, and would eventually become the second highest such position, ranking only below the rank of Reichsleiter.
The insignia for the rank of Gauleiter consisted of two oak leaves worn on a brown colored collar patch.
The Stellvertreter-Gauleiter,or 'Deputy-Gauleiter,' wore a single oak leaf, similar to a Gauleiter.
In theory, a Gauleiter was merely a representative of the Nazi Party who served to coordinate regional Nazi party events and also served to "advise" the local government. In practice, Gauleiters were the unquestioned rulers of their particular areas of responsibility. The legal governmental establishment merely existed as a rubber stamp for the Gauleiter.
The Gauleiter was the highest ranking political leader at the Gau level of political administration within the Reich, with the Reich (National) level the highest, Gau (Shire / Prefecture / Province) second highest, Kreis ('circle', i.e. District / County) third highest and Ort level (municipal) the lowest. There were two additional, lower local levels (Block and Zelle '(party cell'). Political leaders from the Ort level and higher wore official uniforms, with the piping and background color of the uniform collar tabs indicating the administrative level.
All political leaders working at Gau level had rhomboid-shaped collar tabs with red facings (not brown), with a dark wine-red (burgundy) colored piping around the outer edges*.
- Reich level collar tabs had a bright crimson facing, with gold piping; Kreis level tabs had a dark chocolate brown facing, with white piping, while Ort level tabs had a light brown facing with light blue piping. The Political Leader collar tab system was quite complicated and underwent four changes (complexity increasing with each change); the final (4th) pattern as described above, was introduced around the end of 1938 - by this time, with many more job positions within each level; this made the 4th pattern collar tab rank system by far the most complicated of all.
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- Westermann, Großer Atlas zur Weltgeschichte
The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: (help info ) , or NSDAP, originally known as the DAP (this changed in 1920) and commonly known as the
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A Reichsgau (plural Reichsgaue) was an administrative sub-division created in a number of the areas annexed to Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1945. It should not be confused with the Gau, an administrative region of the NSDAP (Nazi Party).
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A Gau (plural Gaue) is a German term for a region within a country, often a former or actual province. It was used in medieval times, when it can be seen as roughly corresponding to an English shire, and was revived as an administrative subdivision during the period
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A shire is an administrative area of Great Britain and Australia. The first shires were created by the Anglo-Saxons in what is now central and southern England. Shires were controlled by a royal official known as a "shire reeve" or sheriff.
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Year 1925 (MCMXXV
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1922 1923 1924 - 1925 - 1926 1927 1928
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The Beer Hall Putsch was a failed coup d'état that occurred between the evening of Thursday, November 8 and the early afternoon of Friday, November 9 1923, when the Nazi party's leader Adolf Hitler, the popular World War I General Erich Ludendorff, and other leaders of the
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Ranks and insignia of the Nazi Party were paramilitary titles used by the National Socialist German Workers Party between 1925 and 1945. Such ranks were held by the political leadership corps of the Nazi Party, charged with the overseeing of the regular Nazi Mitglieder who were the
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Reichsleiter (Imperial Leader), was the second highest political rank of the NSDAP next only to the office of Führer. Reichsleiter also served as a paramilitary rank, for the Nazi Party and was the highest position attainable in any Nazi-Organisation.
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A rubber stamp, as a political metaphor, refers to a person or institution with de jure considerable formal power but little de facto power, one that rarely disagrees with more powerful organs.
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The following List of Gauleiters enumerates those who have held the German political rank of Gauleiter, most often associated with Nazi Germany.
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- Auslands-Organisation der NSDAP (NSDAP/AO)
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