| Gau | Gauleiter | Seat | Remarks | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Auslands-organisation der NSDAP | Hans Nieland Ernst-Wilhelm Bohle |
1930 - 1933 1933 - 1945 |
Berlin | |
| Baden | Robert Wagner | 1925 - 1945 | Karlsruhe | |
| Bayreuth | Hans Schemm Fritz Wächtler |
1933 - 1935 1935 - 1945 |
Bayreuth | Gau Bayreuth was founded as Bayerische Ostmark in 1933 when Oberfranken, Niederbayern & Oberpfalz merged. It was renamed Bayreuth in 1943. |
| Bayerische Ostmark - see Bayreuth | ||||
| Berlin | Joseph Goebbels | 1928 - 1945 | Berlin | |
| Berlin-Brandenburg | Ernst Schlange Joseph Goebbels |
1925 - 1926 1926 - 1928 |
Berlin | Gau Berlin-Brandenburg was divided into Berlin & Brandenburg 1928. |
| Brandenburg | Emil Holz Ernst Schlange |
1928 - 1930 1932 - 1933 |
Berlin | Gau Brandenburg was made a part of part of Kurmark 1933. |
| Danzig - see Danzig-Westpreußen | ||||
| Danzig-Westpreußen | Hans-Albert Hohnfeldt ? Maas Albert Forster |
1926 - 1928 1928 - 1930 1930 - 1945 |
Danzig | Gau Danzig-Westpreußen was known as Danzig until 1939. |
| Düsseldorf | Friedrich Karl Florian | 1930 - 1945 | Düsseldorf | Gau Düsseldorf was founded in 1930 from the bezirk Bergisches-Land. |
| Essen | Josef Terboven Fritz Schlessmann (acting) |
1928 - 1945 1940 - 1945 |
Essen | Schlessmann was acting Gauleiter when Terboven was Reichskommissar in Norway 1940 - 1945. |
| Franken | Julius Streicher Hans Zimmermann Karl Holz |
1929 - 1940 1940 - 1942 1942 - 1945 |
Nuremberg | Gau Franken was founded in 1929 when Mittelfranken merged with the bezirk Nürnberg-Fürth. |
| Halle-Merseburg | Walter Ernst Paul Hinkler Rudolf Jordan Joachim Albrecht Eggeling |
1925 - 1926 1926 - 1931 1931 - 1937 1937 - 1945 |
Halle | |
| Hamburg | Joseph Klant Dr. Albert Krebs Hinrich Lohse Karl Kaufmann |
1925 - 1926 1926 - 1928 1928 - 1929 1929 - 1945 |
Hamburg | |
| Hannover-Nord | Bernhard Rust | 1925 - 1928 | Gau Hannover-Nord became a part of Südhannover-Braunschweig 1928. | |
| Hannover-Süd | Ludolf Haase | 1927 - 1928 | Gau Hannover-Süd became a part of Südhannover-Braunschweig 1928. | |
| Hessen-Darmstadt | Ludolf Haase | 1927 - 1928 | Gau Hessen-Darmstadt became a part of Hessen-Nassau 1933. | |
| Hessen-Nassau | Jakob Sprenger | 1933 - 1945 | Frankfurt/Main | Gau Hessen-Nassau was founded 1933 when Hessen-Darmstadt merged with Hessen-Nassau-Süd. |
| Hessen-Nassau-Nord - see Kurhessen | ||||
| Hessen-Nassau-Süd | Anton Haselmayer Walter Schultz Jakob Sprenger |
1925 - 1926 1926 - 1927 1927 - 1933 |
Gau Hessen-Nassau-Süd became a part of Hessen-Nassau 1933. | |
| Kärnten | Hubert Klausner Franz Kutschera Friedrich Rainer |
1939 - 1940 1940 - 1941 1942 - 1944 |
Klagenfurt | |
| Koblenz-Trier - see Moselland | ||||
| Köln-Aachen | Joseph Grohé | 1931 - 1945 | Köln | |
| Kurhessen | Walter Schultz Karl Weinrich Karl Gerland |
1926 - 1927 1927 - 1944 1944 - 1945 |
Kassel | Gau Kurhessen was known as Hessen-Nassau-Nord until 1934. |
| Kurmark - see Mark Brandenburg | ||||
| Lüneburg-Stade | Otto Telschow | 1925 - 1928 | Lüneburg | |
| Magdeburg-Anhalt | G Schmischke Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper P Hofmann Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper Joachim Albrecht Eggeling Rudolf Jordan |
1925 - 1928 1927 - 1933 1933 1934 - 1935 1935 - 1937 1937 - 1945 |
Dessau | |
| Mainfranken | Otto Hellmuth | 1928 - 1945 | Würzburg | Gau Mainfranken was known as Unterfranken until 1935. |
| Mark Brandenburg | Wilhelm Kube Emil Stürtz |
1933 - 1936 1939 - 1945 |
Berlin | Gau Mark Brandenburg was founded as Kurmark in 1933 when Ostmark merged with Brandenburg. It was renamed 1940. |
| Mecklenburg | Friedrich Hildebrandt ? Albrecht Friedrich Hildebrandt |
1925 - 1930 1930 - 1931 1931 - 1945 |
Schwerin | |
| Mecklenburg-Lübeck - see Mecklenburg | ||||
| Mittelfranken | Wilhelm Grimm | 1928 | Gau Mittelfranken became a part of Franken 1929. | |
| Moselland | Gauleiter Gustav Simon | 1931 - 1945 | Koblenz | Gau Moselland was known as Koblenz-Trier until 1942. |
| München-Oberbayern | Gauleiter Adolf Wagner Paul Giesler |
1933 - 1944 1944 - 1945 |
Munich | Gau München-Oberbayern was founded in 1933 when the bezirk Oberbayern & Gross-München merged. |
| Niederbayern | Otto Ebersdobler | 1930 - 1932 | Gau Niederbayern became a part of Bayerische Ostmark 1933. | |
| Niederbayern-Oberpfalz | Gregor Strasser | 1926 - 1928 | Gau Niederbayern-Oberpfalz was divided into Niederbayern & Oberpfalz 1928. | |
| Niederdonau | Hugo Jury | 1939 - 1945 | Vienna | |
| Niederschlesien | Karl Hanke | 1940 - 1945 | Breslau | |
| Oberbayern-Schwaben - see Schwaben | ||||
| Oberdonau | August Eigruber | 1939 - 1945 | Linz | |
| Oberfranken | Hans Schemm | 1928 - 1933 | Gau Oberfranken became a part of Bayerische Ostmark 1933. | |
| Oberpfalz | Franz Maierhofer | 1929 - 1932 | Gau Oberpfalz became a part of Bayerische Ostmark 1933. | |
| Oberschlesien | Fritz Bracht | 1940 - 1945 | Kattowitz | |
| Osthannover | Otto Telschow | 1925 - 1945 | Lüneburg | |
| Ostmark | Wilhelm Kube | 1928 - 1933 | Gau Ostmark was made a part of Kurmark 1933. | |
| Ostpreußen | Bruno Gustav Scherwitz Erich Koch |
1925 - 1927 1928 - 1945 |
Köningsberg | |
| Pommern | Theodor Vahlen Walter von Corswant Wilhelm Karpenstein Franz Schwede-Coburg |
1925 - 1927 1928 - 1931 1931 - 1934 1935 - 1945 |
Stettin | |
| Pfalz-Saar - see Westmark | ||||
| Rheinland-Nord | Karl Kaufmann | 1925 - 1926 | Gau Rheinland-Nord became a part of Ruhr 1926. | |
| Rheinland-Süd | Heinz Haake Robert Ley |
1925 1925 - 1931 |
Gau Rheinland-Süd was divided into Köln-Aachen & Koblenz-Trier 1931. | |
| Rheinpfalz | Josef Bürckel | 1926 - 1935 | Gau Rheinpfalz became a part of Pfalz-Saar 1935. | |
| Ruhr | Karl Kaufmann Josef Wagner |
1926 - 1929 1929 - 1931 |
Gau Ruhr was divided into Westfalen-Nord p; Westfalen-Süd 1932. | |
| Saarland | Josef Bürckel | 1933 - 1935 | Gau Saarland became a part of Pfalz-Saar 1935. | |
| Saarpfalz - see Westmark | ||||
| Sachsen | Martin Mutschmann | 1925 - 1945 | Dresden | |
| Salzburg | Friedrich Rainer Gustav Adolf Scheel |
1939 - 1941 1941 - 1945 |
Salzburg | |
| Schlesien | Helmut Brückner Josef Wagner |
1925 - 1935 1936 - 1940 |
Gau Schlesien was divided into Niederschlesien & Oberschlesien 1940. | |
| Schleswig-Holstein | Hinrich Lohse | 1925 - 1945 | Kiel | |
| Schwaben | Karl Wahl | 1928 - 1945 | Augsburg | |
| Steiermark | Siegfried Uiberreither | 1939 - 1945 | Graz | |
| Sudetengau - see Sudetenland | ||||
| Sudetenland | Gauleiter Konrad Henlein | 1939 - 1945 | Reichenberg | Gau Sudetenland was known as Sudetengau until 1939. |
| Südhannover-Braunschweig | Bernhard Rust Hartmann Lauterbacher |
1928 - 1940 1940 - 1945 |
Hannover | Gau Südhannover-Braunschweig was founded in 1928 when Hannover-Nord & Hannover-Süd merged. |
| Thüringen | Arthur Dinter Fritz Sauckel |
1925 - 1927 1927 - 1945 |
Weimar | |
| Tirol | Franz Hofer | 1932 - 1933 | Innsbruck | |
| Tirol-Vorarlberg | Franz Hofer | 1938 - 1945 | Innsbruck | |
| Unterfranken - see Mainfranken | ||||
| Warthegau - see Wartheland | ||||
| Wartheland | Arthur Greiser | 1939 - 1945 | Posen | Gau Wartheland was known Warthegau until 1939. |
| Weser-Ems | Karl Röver Paul Wegener |
1929 - 1942 1942 - 1945 |
Oldenburg | |
| Westfalen | Franz Pfeffer von Salomon | 1925 - 1926 | Gau Westfalen became a part of Ruhr 1926. | |
| Westfalen-Nord | Alfred Meyer | 1932 - 1945 | Münster | |
| Westfalen-Süd | Josef Wagner Paul Giesler Albert Hoffmann |
1932 - 1941 1941 - 1943 1943 - 1945 |
Bochum | |
| Westmark | Josef Bürckel Willi Stöhr |
1935 - 1944 1944 - 1945 |
Neustadt a.d.H. | Gau Westmark was founded as Pfalz-Saar in 1935 when Saarland & Rheinpfalz merged. It was renamed Saarpfalz 1937 and finally Westmark 1942. |
| Wien | Odilo Globocnik Josef Bürckel Baldur von Schirach |
1938 - 1939 1939 - 1940 1940 - 1945 |
Vienna | |
| Württemberg-Hohenzollern | Eugen Munder Wilhelm Murr |
1925 - 1928 1928 - 1945 |
Stuttgart | Gau Württemberg-Hohenzollern |
| Sources: | (1) | NSDAP Gaue (www.axishistory.com) | |
| (2) | NSDAP Gaue (Wikipedia) |