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    The Gau Mecklenburg, was formed as Gau Mecklenburg-Lübeck on 22 March 1925 and renamed Gau Mecklenburg on 31 March 1937 when Lübeck was transferred to...
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    Friedrich Hildebrandt (category People from the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin)
    Act transferred the City of Lübeck to Gau Schleswig-Holstein and Hildebrandt's Gau was renamed Gau Mecklenburg. Hildebrandt became a member of the SS...
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  • Albrecht (12 January 1900 – 13 June 1945) was the Nazi Party Gauleiter of Gau Mecklenburg-Lubeck from 1930 to 1931. He was also a long-serving member of the...
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  • when Gau Schlesien was split into two separate Gaue Gau Saar merged with Gau Rheinpfalz to form Gau Pfalz-Saar in 1935 Gau Rheinpfalz merged with Gau Saar...
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    power. Friedrich Hildebrandt – Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Gau Mecklenburg. He was also an SS-Obergruppenführer. Erich Hilgenfeldt – Head of the...
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    Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. In 1934, they were merged into the Gau Mecklenburg. The blue-yellow-blue flag remained in...
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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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    Hildebrandt: Ex SS-Obergruppenführer, Gauleiter of Gau Mecklenburg (1925–1945) and Reichsstatthalter of Mecklenburg (1933–1945). Sentenced to death on 2 April...
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    Mecklenburg-Schwerin, and the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. In 1934, they were merged into the Gau Mecklenburg. The blue-yellow-blue flag remained in...
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    The State of Mecklenburg (German: Land Mecklenburg) was a subdivision of the Soviet occupation zone (until 1949) and one of the states of East Germany...
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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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    Otto-Heinrich Drechsler (category People from the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin)
    for the party district Gau Mecklenburg-Lübeck. On 26 May 1933, Lübeck, together with both Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was placed under...
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    Occupation. The municipality of Amt Neuhaus was allocated to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The Nazi Gau (plural Gaue) system was originally established in a party...
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  • Germany Friedrich Hildebrandt (1898–1948), German NSDAP Gauleiter of Gau Mecklenburg and SS-Obergruppenführer Richard Hildebrandt (1897–1951), German RuSHA...
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    losing both times. The territory of the new Gauliga Mecklenburg was made up of the area of the Gau of the same name. The league started out with seven...
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  • Ihlenburg [de], Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt Alexander Sondermann [de], Gau Mecklenburg Hans Bäselsöder [de], Gau Franconia Otto Nippold [de], Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria...
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  • Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS; Gauleiter NSDAP Gau Mecklenburg and Reichsstatthalter Mecklenburg 1898–1948 executed in Landsberg Richard Hildebrandt...
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  • by several SS personnel in a barn near the village of Zapel-Ausbau in Mecklenburg. As the Red Army neared, the Sachsenhausen and Ravensbrück concentration...
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  • received the honorary title Staatskapellmeister. He was active for the Gau Mecklenburg of the party, since about 1941 also as Gaubeauftragter für Musikangelegenheiten...
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  • documentary Fallschirmjäger E.K. Beltzig documentary Gautag der NSDAP Gau Mecklenburg documentary Glaube und Schönheit E.K. Beltzig documentary Available...
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  • September 1999 Personal details Born (1939-01-17)17 January 1939 Wismar, Gau Mecklenburg, Germany Died 20 January 2023(2023-01-20) (aged 84) Political party...
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  • Wehrkreis (Military District) II, which included his Gau Pomerania in addition to neighboring Gau Mecklenburg. Civil administration and important industrial...
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    (1940-05-20)20 May 1940 Warnemünde, Gau Mecklenburg, Germany Died 3 January 2023(2023-01-03) (aged 82) Neubrandenburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany...
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    the Nazi Gau system. Three changes are of particular note: on 1 January 1934, Mecklenburg-Schwerin was united with neighbouring Mecklenburg-Strelitz;...
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    Untergauleiter (Sub-Gau Leader) and Kreisleiter (County Leader) until 1934. He then became the Gau Inspector for Gau Mecklenburg-Lübeck until 1 April...
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    Pomeranian Voivodship (Polish Corridor), and the Regierungsbezirk West Prussia of Gau East Prussia. Before 2 November 1939, the Reichsgau was called Reichsgau...
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  • clan name dating to the fifth century (related to "bear", "war banner", "gau", or a "land by a waterway") also used in German (German pronunciation: [bɛnts]...
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  • Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper (category Military personnel from the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin)
    October 1935) was a German Nazi politician. He served as the Gauleiter in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt and was the Reichsstatthalter of the Free States of Anhalt...
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    the Gau Propaganda Leader in Gau Groß-Munich under Wagner. From June to November 1930, he was additionally appointed as Acting Gauleiter of Gau Oberpfalz...
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    Conference. On 7 March 1926 his Gau expanded by merging with the Gau Westphalia headed by Franz Pfeffer von Salomon. Now renamed Gau Rhine-Ruhr (and still later...
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