Gustav Alfred Julius Meyer was a Nazi Party official and politician. He joined the Nazi Party in 1928 and was the Gauleiter of North Westphalia from 1931 to 1945, the Oberpräsident of the Province of Westphalia from 1938 to 1945 and the Reichsstatthalter of Lippe and Schaumburg-Lippe from 1933 to 1945. In 1941 he became the Permanent Deputy to the Reichsminister of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories. He represented the ministry with Georg Leibbrandt in the January 1942 Wannsee Conference, at which the genocidal Final Solution to the Jewish Question was planned. Near the end of World War II in Europe, Meyer committed suicide in April 1945.
Meyer in 1941
The meeting minutes of the Wannsee Conference showing "Gauleiter Dr. Meyer" at the top of the participant list.
The Reichsstatthalter was a title used in the German Empire and later in Nazi Germany.
German Empire
Nazi Germany