Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick

Gau Southern Hanover–Brunswick
Gau of Nazi Germany
1928–1945
Flag of Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick
Flag
Coat of arms of Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick
Coat of arms

CapitalHannover
Government
Gauleiter 
• 1928–1940
Bernhard Rust
• 1940–1945
Hartmann Lauterbacher
History 
1 October 1928
8 May 1945
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Free State of Prussia (1933-1935)
Free State of Brunswick
Lower Saxony
Saxony-Anhalt (1945-1952)
Today part ofGermany

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.