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    The Gau Cologne-Aachen (German: Gau Köln-Aachen) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in the north-central part of the Prussian...
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    Josef Grohé (category Politicians from Cologne)
    German Nazi Party official. He was the long-serving Gauleiter of Gau Cologne-Aachen and Reichskommissar for Belgium and Northern France toward the end...
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    Propaganda; acquitted in the Nuremberg Trials Josef Grohé, Gauleiter of Gau Cologne-Aachen and Reichskommissar for the Reichskommissariat of Belgium and Northern...
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    the zone of intended German settlement in north-eastern France, where a Gau or a Reichskommissariat centred on Burgundy was intended for creation, and...
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    SS-Gruppenführer. Died in a car accident in 1944. Josef Grohé – Gauleiter of Gau Cologne-Aachen and Reichskommissar for Reichskommissariat of Belgium and Northern...
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    territories of Eupen and Malmedy were incorporated into Cologne-Aachen. The medieval term Gau (sometimes Gäu; gouw in Dutch) has survived as (second, more generic)...
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    previous military administration. On 13 July 1944, the Gauleiter of Gau Cologne-Aachen, Josef Grohé, was named Reichskommissar of the territory, known as...
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    from not only Gau Düsseldorf but also Gau Cologne-Aachen, Gau Westphalia-South, Gau Westphalia-North, and Gau Essen, the Ruhr pocket underwent a significant...
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    included his Gau together with Gau Dusseldorf, Gau Cologne-Aachen, most of Gau Westphalia-North and Gau Westphalia-South and part of Gau Weser-Ems. On...
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    Commissariat of Belgium and Northern France 10 May 1940  – 4 February 1945 Gau Cologne-Aachen Reichsgau Wallonien Belgian resistance Denmark protectorate state...
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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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  • worker when he was named Deputy Gauleiter of the newly-established Gau Cologne-Aachen under Gauleiter Josef Grohé. He remained in that position until 1...
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    21. ISBN 1-932970-21-5. Miller & Schulz 2021, pp. 205–206. "Gau Köln-Aachen" [Gau Cologne-Aix-la-Chapelle]. rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de (in German)....
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  • March he was elected to the Reichstag for electoral constituency 20, (Cologne-Aachen). On 11 March he was appointed Landeshauptmann of Prussia’s Rhine Province...
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  • Gappenach Gau-Algesheim Gau-Bickelheim Gau-Bischofsheim Gauersheim Gaugrehweiler Gau-Heppenheim Gau-Odernheim Gau-Odernheim (variant) Gau-Weinheim Gebhardshain...
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  • Liugas, Leuwa-gau, or Luihgau, was a small pagus or gau from the late 8th to mid-11th centuries, east of the Meuse (or Maas) river roughly between Liège...
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    Aryanized from Cologne Jews, and Der Spiegel retracted the article. Although already in 1925 Cologne was the capital of the NSDAP-Gau of Cologne-Aachen, many didn't...
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  • functionary) [de], Gau Koblenz-Trier Toni Winkelnkemper [de], Cologne-Aachen district A. Lindemann; August Heinrich Scherer [de], Gau Kurmark Alfred Mitsching;...
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    Aachen Maasgau: along part of the Meuse (Dutch: Maas) north of Maastricht Mühlgau [de]: between the Maas and Niers Nievenheimgau [de] or Neusser Gau:...
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  • the Golden Party Badge. In addition, he was an active propagandist as a Gau and Reich speaker until 1933. He became an early member of the SS (membership...
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  • Examples: Koblenz (from Confluentes "joining rivers"), Köln (Cologne) (from Colonia "colony"), Aachen (from Aquae "springs"), Augsburg and Augst (from Augusta...
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    of Louis IV of Wittelsbach at the nearby City of Aachen, once more against the will of the Cologne bishop. Gerhard died in 1328. His eldest son succeeded...
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  • The pagus or gau of Hasbania was a large early medieval territory in what is now eastern Belgium. It is now approximated by the modern French- and Dutch-speaking...
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    1844, by the Bonn–Cologne Railway Company (Bonn-Cölner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) between the former station of Cologne St. Pantaleon Cologne and Bonn. It was...
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    from electoral constituency 20, Cologne-Aachen. He remained as the Gauleiter of Rhineland until 1 June 1931 when his Gau was divided into two and new leaders...
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  • Gaus (Altreich) Baden-Alsace Bayreuth Berlin CologneAachen Düsseldorf Eastern Hanover East Prussia Electoral Hesse Essen Franconia Halle-Merseburg Hamburg...
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    Gaus (Altreich) Baden-Alsace Bayreuth Berlin CologneAachen Düsseldorf Eastern Hanover East Prussia Electoral Hesse Essen Franconia Halle-Merseburg Hamburg...
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    Stromberg Hunsrück 6725 Gau-Algesheim 6726 Lorch (Rheingau) 6727 Gensingen 6728 Ober-Hilbersheim 673 6731 Alzey 6732 Udenheim 6733 Gau-Odernheim 674 6741 Sankt...
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  • missing] [data missing] [data missing] 1246: Anexxed by Cologne Ahrgau County — — Originally a gau county of the Carolingian Empire See: Are 1107: Separated...
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    associated with Charlemagne. The county of Flanders originated from the Gau of Pagus Flandrensis, led by the Forestiers dynasty, who had been appointed...
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