• The Oberpräsident (Supreme President) was the highest administrative official in the Prussian provinces. The Oberpräsident of a Prussian province was the...
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    Gau March of Brandenburg and Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg (1936–1945). He was also Oberpräsident of Posen-West Prussia from 1936...
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    1934–1936: Wilhelm Kube, NSDAP (acting), Oberpräsident of Brandenburg 1936–1938: Emil Stürtz, NSDAP, Oberpräsident of Brandenburg 1922–1933: Johannes Caspari...
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    also served as Gauleiter of Gau Lower Silesia from 1941 to 1945 and as Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia. Captured on 6 May 1945, he...
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    with the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in 1933, he became Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau. However, he later began to...
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    after 1861 von Flottwell) was a Prussian Staatsminister. He served as Oberpräsident (governor) of the Grand Duchy of Posen (from 1830) and of the Saxony...
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    1880) was a Prussian politician. He was Oberpräsident of Hesse-Nassau from 1867 to 1871. He later became Oberpräsident of Alsace-Lorraine from 1871 until the...
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    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...
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    Parts of Nassau were also moved into the Rhineland-Palatinate. The Oberpräsident ('High Commissioner') was the chief administrator of a Prussian province...
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    found himself with little power, as effective power was executed by Oberpräsident Joseph Zerboni di Sposetti and the district governors heading the Regierungsbezirke...
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    with its seat in Berlin. After the Nazis came to power, he was made Oberpräsident of the Prussian provinces of Brandenburg and Posen-West Prussia, thus...
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    simultaneously head two Gaue. In addition, he succeeded Brückner as Oberpräsident (High President) of the Prussian provinces of Lower Silesia and Upper...
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    April 1945) was the German Nazi Gauleiter of Halle-Merseburg and the Oberpräsident (High President) of the Province of Halle-Merseburg. He was also an...
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    East Prussia were changed, following a decree issued by Gauleiter and Oberpräsident Erich Koch and initiated by Adolf Hitler. Most of the names affected...
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    Night of the Long Knives. On 5 February 1935, Terboven was appointed Oberpräsident (High President) of Prussia's Rhine Province which included Gau Essen...
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    Gauleiter of the new Upper Silesia. He also succeeded to the position of Oberpräsident (High President) of the new Province of Upper Silesia, thus uniting...
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    position in Silesia. On 25 March 1933, Brückner was appointed the acting Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia (made permanent on 2 August)...
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    appointment as Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Hanover, succeeding SA Stabschef Viktor Lutze. As Gauleiter and Oberpräsident, Lauterbacher thus...
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    renamed by 16 July 1938 following a decree issued by Gauleiter and Oberpräsident Erich Koch and initiated by Adolf Hitler. Many who would not cooperate...
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  • politician, Oberbürgermeister (Lord Mayor) of Coburg and both Gauleiter and Oberpräsident of Pomerania. An early supporter of Adolf Hitler in Coburg, Schwede...
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    a German Nazi Party politician who served from 1933 to 1944 as the Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Saxony. Ulrich was the son of a Prussian...
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    appointed the heads of each province known as Oberpräsident (i.e. High Commissioner). The Oberpräsident represented the Prussian government in the province...
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    the year Hitler attacked Poland, Schulenburg was appointed as acting Oberpräsident of Upper and Lower Silesia. By this time, the Nazi régime had come to...
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    occupied territory and administered directly by an imperial governor (Oberpräsident) appointed by Wilhelm I. Although it was not technically part of the...
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    Governor) and Minister-President of the People's State of Hesse, the Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Nassau and an SA-Obergruppenführer. Sprenger...
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  • (1927–30) and Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Pomerania (1930–33). A member of the German People's Party, he was removed as Oberpräsident shortly...
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  • of Essen and Berlin between 1919 and 1933. He was also briefly the Oberpräsident of the Prussian Province of Saxony, and served as the Trustee of Labour...
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    province into the Prussian state was chiefly accomplished by the first Oberpräsident, Ludwig von Vincke. The province was divided administratively into three...
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    Provinzialausschuß to the Oberpräsident official, although he had to hear the Provinzialrat commission before. Once the power was shifted to the Oberpräsident with the...
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    1932. Shortly after the Nazis' seizure of power he was appointed as Oberpräsident (high president) of the Province of Schleswig-Holstein on 25 March 1933...
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