The Gau Westmark (English: Western March) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. From 1925 to 1933, it was a regional subdivision...

was a Nazi Party official and politician who served as Gauleiter of Gau Westmark in the closing months of the war. Born in Wuppertal-Elberfeld the son...

Austria. He held the posts of Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter in both Gau Westmark and Reichsgau Vienna. Joseph Bürckel was born in Lingenfeld, in the Bavarian...

Bürckel – A Gauleiter from 1926 in the Rhinepfalz and the Saarland (later, Gau Westmark) from 1935. An SS-Obergruppenführer, he was Chief of Civil Administration...

11 March 1941 as Westmark, meaning "Western March" or "Western Boundary," with its governor styled as Reichsstatthalter in der Westmark, "Reich Governor...

Civil Administration of Lorraine) was an administrative division of the Gau Westmark from 1940 to 1945. After the outbreak of the Second World War and the...

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...

Palatinate, but united with the latter as the Gau of Saar-Palatinate (Saarpfalz). In 1942 it was renamed Westmark (Western March), as it was planned to be...

otherwise totally reorganised—it was merged with the Saarland into the Gau Westmark, with headquarters in Saarbrücken. The union with Bavaria was finally...

18 October 1940) from the Forbidden Zone. See: Alsace-Lorraine, and Gau Westmark; the German settlement Zone where the return of refugees was prohibited:...

Kingdom or joining France. 1 March 1935  – April 1945 Gau Palatinate-Saar Gau Saar-Palatinate Gau Westmark Saar Basinian resistance Ukrainian National Government...

incorporated into the Gau of Rheinpfalz (Rhine Palatinate) to form the Gau Pfalz-Saar (renamed Gau Saarpfalz in January 1936 and Gau Westmark in December 1940)...

exception of its de facto annexation by Nazi Germany as part of the Gau Westmark during World War II, that area has since remained a part of France. During...

July failed attempt to assassinate Hitler, Josef Bürckel, Gauleiter of Gau Westmark where Germersheim was located, pressed Heinrich Himmler, who was the...

1936 and finally Gau Westmark in 1940 when it absorbed part of French Lorraine Gau Schlesien was divided into Gau Niederschlesien & Gau Oberschlesien in 1941...

virtually defunct under the Nazi regime, when Kallstadt belonged to the Gau Westmark. The Palatinate was separated from Bavaria in 1946 and became a part...

Vienna Gauleiter of Vienna Governor of the Vienna region Gauleiter of Gau Westmark Died because of ill health Ferdinand aus der Fünten December 17, 1909...

Commander of SS-Oberabschnitt Rhein-Westmark (an SS administrative district named for the Rhine and Gau Westmark) in Wiesbaden, serving there until the...

again annexed by Germany in July of that year by becoming part of the Gau Westmark. Adolf Hitler considered Moselle and Alsace parts of Germany, and as...

Northern France, and further divided into administrative districts such as Gau Westmark. Finally, Vichy France, technically independent from Germany, tried to...

plans proposed transforming the country in its entirety into a Gau Westland, or even a Gau Holland. More detailed plans suggested its outright dissection...

and Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) Reichsgau Vienna 1939 - 1940, Gau Westmark 1941 - 1944 1895–1944 Leonardo Conti Persönlicher Stab Reichsführer SS;...

CdZ-Gebiet Elsass, attached to the Gau Baden-Elsaß. This department became the CdZ-Gebiet Lothringen, attached to the Gau Westmark. Parisot, Robert (1922). Histoire...

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...

the league was from then on divided in the Gauligas Hessen-Nassau and Westmark. Shortly after the formation of the league, the Nazis reorganised the administrative...

were treating as fully integrated parts of the German state (Gau Baden-Elsaß and Gau Westmark). Most of the rest of "Region C" was defined by the Germans...

Nazi party Gau Baden-Alsace. The Moselle department became the CdZ-Gebiet Lothringen, to be administered by Nazi officials of the Gau Westmark. The Nazi...

département of Moselle, renamed CdZ-Gebiet Lothringen, was added to the Gau Westmark on 30 November 1940. (German: Bezirkspräsident/today's French: Président...

Jean-Henri Jaeger Born 1944 Thionville, Gau Westmark, German-occupied France, Germany Died 8 February 2022 (aged 78) Salernes, France Nationality French...

Bürckel became Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) of the now expanded Gau Westmark, which included the Civil Administration Area of Lorraine. At that time...