Gau Thuringia | |||||||||||||
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Gau of Nazi Germany | |||||||||||||
1925–1945 | |||||||||||||
Map of Nazi Germany showing its administrative subdivisions (Gaue and Reichsgaue). | |||||||||||||
Capital | Weimar | ||||||||||||
Government | |||||||||||||
Gauleiter | |||||||||||||
• 1925–1927 | Artur Dinter | ||||||||||||
• 1927–1945 | Fritz Sauckel | ||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||
6 April 1925 | |||||||||||||
8 May 1945 | |||||||||||||
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Today part of | Germany |
The Gau Thuringia (German: Gau Thüringen) formed on 6 April 1925, was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in the Free State of Thuringia from 1933 to 1945. Before that, from 1925 to 1933, it was the regional subdivision of the Nazi Party in that area.