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    The Gau Westphalia-North (German: Gau Westfalen-Nord) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany encompassing the Free State of Lippe, the Free State...
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    The Gau Westphalia-South (German: Gau Westfalen-Süd) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany encompassing the Arnsberg Region in the southern part...
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    Alfred Meyer (category Provincial Presidents of Westphalia)
    constituency 17, North Westphalia, and on 31 January 1931, he was appointed the Nazi Party Gauleiter of the newly-formed Gau Westphalia-North. He also became...
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    Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia-North; Reichsstatthalter of Lippe and Schaumburg Lippe; Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Westphalia from 1938; Deputy...
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    Münster, where he took over as Commander of the SiPo and the SD for Gau Westphalia-North. Hahn was also tasked with overseeing the security detail for Gauleiter...
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    Free State of Lippe (category Former states and territories of North Rhine-Westphalia)
    members. Ernst Krappe, the economics specialist in the Nazi Party's Gau Westphalia-North, became Chairman of the State Presidency. On 7 April, the Reich government...
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    originally belonged to the Gau Ruhr, initially led by Joseph Goebbels, became part of the Gau Westphalia in 1928 before becoming its own Gau in August 1930. At...
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  • Stabsführer (Staff Leader) for SA-Untergruppe Westphalia-North. After the formation of the Gau Westphalia-North in January 1931, Stangier was selected to...
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    District) VI which comprised his Gau together with Gau Dusseldorf, Gau Essen and most of Gau Westphalia-North and Gau Westphalia-South. Although charged with...
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    Arbeitsdienst) in Gau Westphalia-North. In 1933 he served briefly as a Nazi deputy in the Landtag of the Province of Westphalia, before its dissolution...
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    Gauliga Westfalen (category Football competitions in North Rhine-Westphalia)
    reorganised the administrative regions in Germany, and the Gaue Westphalia-North and Westphalia-South replaced the Prussian province and the Free State. The...
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    included his Gau together with Gau Dusseldorf, Gau Cologne-Aachen, most of Gau Westphalia-North and Gau Westphalia-South and part of Gau Weser-Ems. On...
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  • Winfried Fockenberg (category Members of the Bundestag for North Rhine-Westphalia)
    (1945-01-15)15 January 1945 Bottrop, Gau Westphalia-North, Germany Died 2 May 2024(2024-05-02) (aged 79) Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Political party...
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  • Sturmabteilung (SA) in Münster. From 1931 to 1933, he worked in Gau Westphalia-North as an agricultural advisor and an adjutant to the Gauleiter, Alfred...
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    Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor). Alfred Meyer, the Nazi Party Gauleiter for Gau Westphalia-North, was installed in this new post for both Schaumburg-Lippe and Lippe...
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    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...
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    in the Reich Ministry of Propaganda Friedrich Karl Florian, Gauleiter of Gau Düsseldorf and an SA-Obergruppenführer. Alfred Frauenfeld, an early Gauleiter...
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    Bremen, Hamburg, Hesse (Hessen), Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), North Rhine-Westphalia (Nordrhein-Westfalen), Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz), Schleswig-Holstein...
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  • 1931, he became the Gau economics advisor in Gau Westphalia-North based in Münster. The following year, he advanced to the post of Gau Inspector and became...
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    The Gau Cologne-Aachen (German: Gau Köln-Aachen) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in the north-central part of the Prussian...
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    around Bruchsal; sub-gau and northwestern half of Kraichgau Arfeld [de]: along the upper Eder in southern Northrhine-Westphalia (Arnsberg region), around...
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    Harald zur Hausen (category People from the Province of Westphalia)
    zur Hausen in 2010 Born (1936-03-11)11 March 1936 Gelsenkirchen, Gau Westphalia-North, Germany Died 29 May 2023(2023-05-29) (aged 87) Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg...
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    Ferdinand von Lüninck (category People from North Rhine-Westphalia executed by Nazi Germany)
    initiative, and was soon replaced by the Nazi Party Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia-North, Alfred Meyer. From 1940 to 1943, he returned to military service...
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    Bavaria: 317 cities and towns Baden-Württemberg: 316 cities and towns North Rhine-Westphalia: 272 cities and towns Hesse: 191 cities and towns Saxony: 169 cities...
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    from the original on 26 May 2017. Retrieved 29 March 2016. "Gau Westfalen-Süd" [Gau Westphalia-South]. verwaltungsgeschichte.de (in German). Retrieved 29...
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    Fritz Bracht (category People from Lage, North Rhine-Westphalia)
    briefly as acting Deputy Gauleiter in Wagner's other jurisdiction, Gau Westphalia-South from 1 to 15 August 1936. When Silesia was split into two Gaue...
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    Achim Müller Born (1938-02-14)14 February 1938 Detmold, Gau Westphalia-North, Germany Died 28 February 2024(2024-02-28) (aged 86) Alma mater University...
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    Westphalian: Patterbuorn, also Paterboärn) is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn district. The name of the city...
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  • Private Welfare. Due to disagreements with the Party leadership of Gau Westphalia-North over his positive attitude toward Christianity, on 21 October 1934...
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    Conference. On 7 March 1926 his Gau expanded by merging with the Gau Westphalia headed by Franz Pfeffer von Salomon. Now renamed Gau Rhine-Ruhr (and still later...
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