Gau Main Franconia (German: Gau Mainfranken), formed as Gau Lower Franconia (German: Gau Unterfranken) on 1 March 1929 and renamed Gau Main Franconia...

Lower Franconia (German: Unterfranken) is one of seven districts of Bavaria, Germany. The districts of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia make up the region...

Franconia (German: Franken, pronounced [ˈfʁaŋkŋ̍] ; East Franconian: Franggn [ˈfrɑŋɡŋ̍]; Bavarian: Frankn) is a region of Germany, characterised by its...

as Franconian (Fränkisch) in German, is a dialect which is spoken in Franconia, the northern part of the federal state of Bavaria and other areas in...

The Gaue (singular: Gau) were the main administrative divisions of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. The Gaue were formed in 1926 as Nazi Party regional...

Franconia (German: Franken) is a region that is not precisely defined, but which lies in the north of the Free State of Bavaria, parts of Baden-Württemberg...

along the south bank of the middle Main in Lower Franconia, east of the Maindreieck [de] and west of Bamberg Gau Grunzwiti: between the lower Enns and...

Gau Schwaben (Gau of Swabia) Gau München-Oberbayern (Gau of Munich–Upper Bavaria) Gau Mainfranken (Gau of Main–Franconia) Gau Bayerische Ostmark (Gau...

Streicher, he was editor-in-chief at Der Stürmer and Deputy Gauleiter of Gau Franconia for many years, becoming Gauleiter in 1942. He was also an SA-Gruppenführer...

October 1894 – 16 October 1946) was a German Nazi politician, Gauleiter of Gau Thuringia from 1927 and the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment...

it again expanded, absorbing a neighboring Gau. Now encompassing all of Middle Franconia, it was renamed Gau Mittelfranken. Finally, in April 1933, the...

north and west by the muschelkalk Gäu landscapes of the Main-Franconian Plateaux, to the southwest, of which, are the Gäu Plateaus. In the southwest, are...

Traeg [de], Gau Swabia Waldemar Vogt [de], Gau Lower Franconia Ernst Schulze, Gau Weser-Ems Fritz Schmidt, Gau Westphalia-Nord Hermann Brust [de], Gau Westphalia-South...

Poppo was first mentioned as a ruler in the Gau of Grabfeld, a historic region in northeastern Franconia bordering on Thuringia, in 819 AD. He may be...

electoral constituency 26, Franconia. On 19 January 1933, the Gau of Upper Franconia, led by Schemm, was merged with the Gau of Lower Bavaria-Upper Palatinate...

roots date back to 1194. In the 21st century, it is the capital of Upper Franconia and has a population of 72,148 (2015). It hosts the annual Bayreuth Festival...

year he also secured a seat on the Kreistag (District Council) of Upper Franconia. In 1926, Schede founded Der Weckruf ("The Wake-Up Call"), the first Nazi...

head two districts. His jurisdiction included his Gau and four other Bavarian Gaue (Bayreuth, Franconia, Mainfranken and Swabia) as well as the northwestern...

regional capitals. These included Gau Basel-Solothurn, Gau Schaffhausen, Gau Luzern, Gau Bern and Gau Zürich. The Gau Ostschweiz (East Switzerland) combined...

The Franconia Railway (German: Frankenbahn) is a 180-kilometre-long (110 mi) railway line in the north of the German state of Baden-Württemberg and the...

sung at official occasions in the districts of Lower Franconia, Middle Franconia, and Upper Franconia. The text of the hymn was written by Joseph Victor...

including Goebbels, to a special conference in Bamberg, in Streicher's Gau of Franconia, where he gave a two-hour speech repudiating Strasser's new political...

Hesse and (partially) Rhineland-Palatinate. The traditional names of the Gau are Loganahe Pagus or Pagus Logenensis. The Lahngau was the East Frankish...

Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) of Bavaria Paul Wegener, Gauleiter of Gau Weser-Ems and Reichsstatthalter of Bremen and Oldenburg Erwin Kraus [de]...

Bavarian Nordgau (Bayerischer Nordgau) was a medieval administrative unit (Gau) on the frontier of the German Duchy of Bavaria. It comprised the region...

like the names of other German regions (Schwaben "Swabia", Franken "Franconia", Bayern "Bavaria", Sachsen "Saxony"), derives from the dative plural...

Bavaria. In December 1926, Strasser's Gau merged with that of the Upper Palatinate and Strasser headed the enlarged Gau. After a subsequent partition on 1...

Saxons / Continental Saxons (the variants Ga, Gao, Gau, Gabi, Go, Gowe, Gouw, Ge were the word for Gau – Old Saxon or Old Low German and Old High German...

military rank insignias similar to these of the Wehrmacht, characterised by the main corps colour (de: Hauptfarbe) dark-green, and various secondary colours (de:...

Luxembourgish Uess ("ox"), Dutch os, German Ochse; and (dated) Luxembourgish Gaus ("goose"), Old Dutch gās, German Gans. The language spoken by Charlemagne...