Artur Dinter was a German writer and theater director who was a member of Pan German and antisemitic organizations. He joined the Nazi Party and became the Gauleiter of Gau Thuringia in the Party's ea
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A Gauleiter was a regional leader of the Nazi Party who served as the head of a Gau or Reichsgau. Gauleiter was the third-highest rank in the Nazi political leadership, subordinate only to Reichsleite
Artur Dinter
…1948) was a German writer and theater director who was a member of Pan German and antisemitic organizations. He joined the Nazi Party and became the Gauleiter of Gau Thuringia in the Party's early years. However, he fell out with Adolf Hitler, was expelled from the Party and forbidden from publishing any…
A group of Gauleiters greet Hitler at Gorlitz, 1943.
Adolf Wagner, Gauleiter in Munich, the headquarters of the Nazi Party, from 1 November 1929. Though incapacitated by a stroke in June 1942, he remained titular Gauleiter until his death on 12 April 1944.
Fritz Sauckel was the Gauleiter of Thuringia, from 30 September 1927 to 8 May 1945 and the Reichsstatthalter of Thuringia from 5 May 1933. Also the Reich's General Plenipotentiary for Labor Deployment, he was executed as a war criminal after the Nuremberg trials.
Karl Kaufmann was the Gauleiter of Hamburg, Germany's second most populous city, from 15 April 1929 to the end of the Nazi regime on 8 May 1945. He was also the Reichsstatthalter of Hamburg from 16 May 1933. After serving a prison sentence for war crimes, he became involved in neo-Nazi political activities in post-war West Germany.