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    Gau Bayreuth (until June 1942, Gau Bayerische Ostmark, 'Bavarian Eastern March') was an administrative division of Nazi Germany formed by the 19 January...
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    served as the Gauleiter of the eastern Bavarian administrative region of Gau Bayreuth. Trained as a primary school teacher, he also became head of the National...
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    1920s, Bayreuth became a center of Nazi ideology. In 1933, it was made capital of the Nazi Gau Bavarian Eastern March (Bayerische Ostmark, in 1942 Gau Bayreuth)...
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  • Hans Schemm (category People from Bayreuth)
    who became a prominent Nazi Party official. He served as Gauleiter of Gau Bayreuth and Bavarian State Minister for Education and Culture until his death...
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    The Gaue (singular: Gau) were the main administrative divisions of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. The Gaue were formed in 1926 as Nazi Party regional...
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  • renamed Gau Bayreuth after its capital in 1942 Gau Groß-Berlin merged with Gau Potsdam to form Gau Berlin-Brandenburg in 1926 Gau Anhalt merged with Gau Elbe-Havel...
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    Ludwig Ruckdeschel (category People from Bayreuth)
    – 8 November 1986) was the Acting Nazi Gauleiter of Bayreuth during the final month of the Gau's existence before the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945...
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    Wächtler – Gauleiter of the eastern Bavarian administrative region of Gau Bayreuth. He was an Obergruppenführer in both the SA and the SS. Otto Wächter...
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    western and southern Sudetenland territories were attached to the Bavarian Gau Bayreuth as well as to the Austrian Reichsgaue Oberdonau and Niederdonau. After...
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    Troost: Building during the new Kingdom. Volume 1 Publisher of Gau Bayreuth Bayreuth, 1938. Siegerland national-Zeitung. 29 October, 8 November, 14 December...
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    German Zone of Protection in Slovakia 1 October 1938  – 11 May 1945 Gau Bayreuth Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Reichsgau Niederdonau Reichsgau Oberdonau...
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    when the Reichsgau system was used instead and Gau Thuringia administered the Free State and Gau Bayreuth administered northern Bavaria. Between 1945 and...
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    Moravia up between its four surrounding Gaue: Reichsgau Sudetenland Gau Bayreuth (Bavarian Eastern March) Reichsgau Niederdonau (Lower Danube) Reichsgau...
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    with the Coburger Nationalzeitung [de], a newspaper affiliated with the Gau Bayreuth. It and all other Coburg newspapers were either closed down or incorporated...
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  • the Gau Bavarian Eastern March in Bayreuth, including Deputy Economic Advisor, Gau Training Administrator for the German Labour Front (DAF), and Gau Department...
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    – 20 April 1945) was a German Nazi Party politician. He was Gauleiter of Gau Franconia and rose to the rank of Gruppenführer in the Sturmabteilung (SA)...
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    other areas in Germany around Nuremberg, Bamberg, Coburg, Würzburg, Hof, Bayreuth, Meiningen, Bad Mergentheim, and Crailsheim. The major subgroups are Unterostfränkisch...
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    1984) was a German Nazi Party official. He served as the Acting Gauleiter of Gau Franconia between February 1940 and April 1942. Born in Nuremberg, Zimmermann...
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    regional capitals. These included Gau Basel-Solothurn, Gau Schaffhausen, Gau Luzern, Gau Bern and Gau Zürich. The Gau Ostschweiz (East Switzerland) combined...
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  • stage works in leading opera houses in Europe and worldwide, such as the Bayreuth Festival where he appeared from 1986 as Tannhäuser, Stolzing in Die Meistersinger...
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    the meeting and was also assigned to protect the Gau office in Berlin. The SA then stormed the Gau office on Hedemannstrasse, injuring the SS men and...
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    to head two districts. His jurisdiction included his Gau and four other Bavarian Gaue (Bayreuth, Franconia, Mainfranken and Swabia) as well as the northwestern...
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    opera house in Munich was, without permission, adapted by Wagner for the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. Semper was born into a well-to-do industrialist family in...
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    upper Amper in Upper Bavaria, bounded in the south by the Ammergau Alps; sub-gau of Sundergau Attergau [de]: along the Ager in Upper Austria, around the Attersee...
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    of Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Hildburghausen and Sonneberg, the historical Gau of Grabfeld, held by the House of Henneberg from the 11th century and later...
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    conceptions of history — those of Ptolemy, of Copernicus and of Hörbiger." A new Gau house for Reichsgau Oberdonau was to feature a hall and a tower, under which...
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    meeting and who were then assigned to protect the Gau office in Berlin. The SA then stormed the Gau office on the Hedemannstrasse, injuring the SS men...
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  • or -rade ("clearing"; cf. English rod, rode, royde). Examples: Roth, Bayreuth, Overath, Wernigerode. It can also be used as the prefix Rade-: Radebeul...
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    Mistelgau (category Bayreuth (district))
    Mistelgau is a municipality in the district of Bayreuth in Bavaria in Germany. The eponymous village is the seat of both the municipality as well as the...
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    Kratsch Rifle: In 1839 it was reported that a mechanic called Kratsch from Bayreuth had invented a rifle capable of firing 30 times in a minute and being reloaded...
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