The following list of Gauleiters enumerates those who have held the Nazi party rank of

Gauleiter A ''Gauleiter'' () was a regional leader of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) who served as the head of a '' Gau'' or '' Reichsgau''. ''Gauleiter'' was the third-highest rank in the Nazi political leadership, subordinate only to '' Reichsleiter'' and to ...

, a type of regional party leader in Germany only within

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...

's system. Of the 44 former Gauleiter of the NSDAP thirteen committed suicide when Nazi Germany surrendered, eight were executed by the allies after the war, one was executed by the SS and one died in Soviet captivity. By 1954, when

Karl Wahl Karl Wahl (24 September 1892 – 18 February 1981) was the Nazi ''Gauleiter'' of Gau Swabia from the '' Gau'' inception in 1928 until the collapse of Nazi Germany in 1945. After the war, Wahl spent 3½ years in jail before being released in ...

became the first former Gauleiter to publish his memoirs, eight were still missing, three in jail and the remaining ten were free men.

List

This is a list of Gaue and Gauleiters, with their time in office in brackets:

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References

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Bibliography

*Miller, Michael D. and Schulz, Andreas (2012). ''Gauleiter: The Regional Leaders Of The Nazi Party And Their Deputies, 1925-1945 (Herbert Albreacht-H. Wilhelm Huttmann)-Volume 1'', R. James Bender Publishing. * *Westermann, ''Großer Atlas zur Weltgeschichte''

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