Background: The Gauleiter were the top Nazi regional leaders. There were 43 of them in 1941. The illustrations in Column 1 are from Julius Streicher, Reichstagung in Nürnberg 1934 (Berlin: Vaterländischer Verlag C. A. Weller. 1934). These were studio portraits. Those in Column 2 are from Das Buch der deutschen Gauen. Fünf Jahre nationalsozialistische Aufbauleistung (Bayreuth: Gauverlag Bayerische Ostmark, 1938). This was a book with a chapter on each Gau, usually with a picture of the Gauleiter. In most cases, the Gauleiter is shown doing something: giving a speech, visiting citizens, etc. Column 3 has pictures from other sources. This is not a complete list of Gauleiter.
There is a useful chart of Gauleiter on German Wikipedia. Anther collection of Gauleiter photographs is available from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (search for “Gauleiter”). An enormous amount of information on Nazi Gauleiter is available in the three-volume Gauleiter: The Regional Leaders of the Nazi Party and their Deputies, 1925-1945, by Michael D. Miller and Andreas Schulz.
Many photographs of Gauleiter are available for inspection on Getty Images.
The source: Various.
A Gallery of Gauleiter
1934 Photos
1938 Photos
Other Photos
Name and Gau
Helmuth Brückner was Gauleiter of Silesia (Schlesien) from 1925 to 1934.
Josef Bürckel was Gauleiter of Saarpfalz (Westmark) 1935-1944.
Joachim Albert Eggeling was Gauleiter of Halle-Merseburg 1937-1945.
August Eigruber was Gauleiter of Oberdonau 1938-1945.
Friedrich Karl Florian was Gauleiter of Düsseldorf 1930-1945.
Albert Forster was Gauleiter of Danzig-Westpreußen.
Odilo Globocnik was Gauleiter of Vienna 1938-1939.
Joseph Goebbels was Gauleiter of Berlin 1926-1945.
Joseph Grohé was Gauleiter of Köln-Aachen 1931-1945.
Karl Hanke was Gauleiter of Niederschlesien 1941-1945.
Otto Hellmuth was Gauleiter of Mainfranken 1928-1945.
Friedrich Hildebrandt was Gauleiter of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
Franz Hofer was Gauleiter of Tirol 1938-1945.
Rudolf Jordan was Gauleiter of Magdeburg-Anhalt 1937-1945.
Hugo Jury was Gauleiter of Niederdonau 1938-1945.
Karl Kaufmann was Gauleiter of Hamburg 1929-1945.
Hubert Klausner was Gauleiter of Kärnten until 1939.
Erich Koch was Gauleiter of Ostpreußen 1929-1945.
Wilhelm Kube was Gauleiter of Kurmark 1933-1936.
Hartmann Lauterbacher was Gauleiter of Südhannover-Braunschweig.
Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper was Gauleiter of Magdeburg-Anhalt.
Hinrich Lohse was Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein 1925-1945.
Alfred Meyer was Gauleiter of Westfalen-Nord 1931-1945.
Wilhelm Murr was Gauleiter of Württemberg 1928-1945.
Martin Mutschmann was Gauleiter of Sachsen 1925-1945.
Friedrich Rainer was Gauleiter of Salzburg and Kärnten.
Carl Röver was Gauleiter of Weser-Ems until 1942.
Bernard Rust was Gauleiter of Süd-Hannover-Braunschweig.
Fritz Sauckel was Gauleiter of Thüringen 1927-1945.
Hans Schemm was Gauleiter of Bayerische Ostmark.
Franz Schwede-Coburg was Gauleiter of Pommern 1934-1945.
Gustav Simon was Gauleiter of Moselland 1931-1945.
Jakob Sprenger was Gauleiter of Hessen-Nassau 1933-1945.
Julius Streicher was Gauleiter of Franken 1929-1940.
Otto Telschow was Gauleiter of East Hannover 1928-1945.
Adolf Wagner was Gauleiter of Munich-Upper Bavaria.
Fritz Wächtler was Gauleiter of Bayerische Ostmark 1935-1945.
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