| Gau Southern Hanover–Brunswick | |||||||||||||
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| Gau of Nazi Germany | |||||||||||||
| 1928–1945 | |||||||||||||
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| Capital | Hannover | ||||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||||
| Gauleiter | |||||||||||||
• 1928–1940 | Bernhard Rust | ||||||||||||
• 1940–1945 | Hartmann Lauterbacher | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| 1 October 1928 | |||||||||||||
| 8 May 1945 | |||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||||||
Gau Southern Hanover–Brunswick (German: Gau Südhannover–Braunschweig) was a de facto administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in the Free State of Brunswick and part of the Free State of Prussia. Before that, from its formation on 1 October 1928 to 1933, it was the regional subdivision of the Nazi Party in that area. Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick was abolished after Germany's defeat in 1945. The territory after the war became part of Lower Saxony in West Germany.