Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt
The Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Formed in 1926 as Gau Anhalt-North Saxony Province by the merger of three smaller Gaue (Anhalt, Elbe-Havel and Magdeburg) it comprised the German state of Anhalt and part of the Prussian province of Saxony. It was renamed Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt on 1 October 1928. From 1926 to 1933, it was the regional subdivision of the Nazi Party in that area.
| Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt | |||||||||||
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| Gau of Nazi Germany | |||||||||||
| 1926–1945 | |||||||||||
Flag
Coat of arms
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| Capital | Dessau | ||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||
| Gauleiter | |||||||||||
• 1926–1927 | Gustav Hermann Schmischke | ||||||||||
• 1927–1935 | Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper | ||||||||||
• 1935–1937 | Joachim Albrecht Eggeling (acting) | ||||||||||
• 1937–1945 | Rudolf Jordan | ||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||
| 1 September 1926 | |||||||||||
| 8 May 1945 | |||||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||||
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