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Reich Defense Commissioner, the Glossary

Reich Defense Commissioner (German: Reichsverteidigungskommissar, RVK) was a governmental position created in Nazi Germany at the outbreak of World War II on 1 September 1939.^[1]

68 relations: Administrative divisions of Nazi Germany, Adolf Wagner, Albert Forster, Allies of World War II, Arthur Greiser, Bavaria, Corps, Council of Ministers for the Defense of the Reich, East Prussia, Emil Stürtz, Erich Koch, Franz Schwede, Free People's State of Württemberg, Free State of Anhalt, Free State of Brunswick, Friedrich Rainer, Fritz Sauckel, Gau East Prussia, Gau Essen, Gau Hamburg, Gau Hesse-Nassau, Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt, Gau March of Brandenburg, Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria, Gau Pomerania, Gau Saxony, Gau Silesia, Gau Thuringia, Gau Württemberg-Hohenzollern, Gauleiter, Hamburg, Invasion of Poland, Jakob Sprenger, Josef Bürckel, Josef Terboven, Josef Wagner (Gauleiter), Joseph Goebbels, Karl Kaufmann, Landeshauptmann, Martin Mutschmann, Military district (Germany), Nazi Germany, Nazi Party, Oberpräsident, Ostmark (Austria), People's State of Hesse, Province of Brandenburg, Province of Pomerania (1815–1945), Province of Saxony, Province of Silesia, ... Expand index (18 more) »

Administrative divisions of Nazi Germany

The Gaue (singular: Gau) were the main administrative divisions of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945.

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Adolf Wagner

Adolf Wagner (1 October 1890 – 12 April 1944) was a Nazi Party official and politician who served as the Party's Gauleiter in Munich and as the powerful Interior Minister of Bavaria throughout most of the Third Reich.

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Albert Forster

Albert Maria Forster (26 July 1902 – 28 February 1952) was a Nazi German politician, member of the SS and war criminal.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Arthur Greiser

Arthur Karl Greiser (22 January 1897 – 21 July 1946) was a Nazi German politician, SS-Obergruppenführer, Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) of the German-occupied territory of Wartheland.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Corps

Corps (plural corps; from French corps, from the Latin corpus "body") is a term used for several different kinds of organization.

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Council of Ministers for the Defense of the Reich

The Council of Ministers for the Defense of the Reich (German: Ministerrat für die Reichsverteidigung) was a six-member ministerial council created in Nazi Germany by Adolf Hitler on 30 August 1939, in anticipation of the invasion of Poland – which provoked the beginning of World War II – with the purpose of allowing the continuation of the Nazi government, especially in relation to the war effort, while Hitler concentrated on prosecuting the war. Reich Defense Commissioner and council of Ministers for the Defense of the Reich are 1939 establishments in Germany and 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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East Prussia

East Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945. Reich Defense Commissioner and East Prussia are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Emil Stürtz

Emil Stürtz (15 November 1892 – missing 21 April 1945) was a German Nazi Party official and politician who served as the Gauleiter in Brandenburg from 1936 to 1945.

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Erich Koch

Erich Koch (19 June 1896 – 12 November 1986) was a Gauleiter of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in East Prussia from 1 October 1928 until 1945.

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Franz Schwede

Franz Reinhold Schwede (5 March 1888 – 19 October 1960) was a Nazi German politician, Oberbürgermeister (Lord Mayor) of Coburg and both Gauleiter and Oberpräsident of Pomerania.

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Free People's State of Württemberg

The Free People's State of Württemberg (Freier Volksstaat Württemberg) was a state which existed in the Weimar Republic and from 1933 in Nazi Germany.

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Free State of Anhalt

The Free State of Anhalt (Freistaat Anhalt) was formed after Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt abdicated on 12 November 1918, ending the Duchy of Anhalt. Reich Defense Commissioner and Free State of Anhalt are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Free State of Brunswick

The Free State of Brunswick was a state of the German Reich in the time of the Weimar Republic.

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Friedrich Rainer

Friedrich W. Rainer (28 July 1903 – November 1950) was an Austrian Nazi politician, Gauleiter as well as a Reichsstatthalter of Salzburg and Carinthia.

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Fritz Sauckel

Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel (27 October 1894 – 16 October 1946) was a German Nazi politician, Gauleiter of Gau Thuringia from 1927 and the General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment (Arbeitseinsatz) from March 1942 until the end of the Second World War.

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Gau East Prussia

Gau East Prussia (German: Ostpreußen) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany encompassing the province of East Prussia in the Free State of Prussia from 1933 to 1945. Reich Defense Commissioner and Gau East Prussia are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Gau Essen

The Gau Essen was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in the northern parts of the Prussian Rhine Province. Reich Defense Commissioner and Gau Essen are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Gau Hamburg

The Gau Hamburg was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in the German city of Hamburg. Reich Defense Commissioner and Gau Hamburg are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Gau Hesse-Nassau

The Gau Hesse-Nassau (German: Gau Hessen-Nassau) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Reich Defense Commissioner and Gau Hesse-Nassau are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt

The Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. Reich Defense Commissioner and Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Gau March of Brandenburg

The Gau March of Brandenburg (German: Mark Brandenburg) was formed in March 1933 initially under the name Gau Electoral March (German: Kurmark) in Nazi Germany as a district within the Free State of Prussia. Reich Defense Commissioner and Gau March of Brandenburg are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria

The Gau Munich–Upper Bavaria (Gau München–Oberbayern) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in Upper Bavaria from 1933 to 1945. Reich Defense Commissioner and Gau Munich-Upper Bavaria are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Gau Pomerania

The Gau Pomerania (German: Gau Pommern) formed on 22 March 1925, was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 comprising the Prussian province of Pomerania. Reich Defense Commissioner and Gau Pomerania are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Gau Saxony

The Gau Saxony (Gau Sachsen) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in the German state of Saxony. Reich Defense Commissioner and Gau Saxony are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Gau Silesia

The Gau Silesia (German: Gau Schlesien) formed on 15 March 1925, was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1941 in the Prussian Province of Silesia.

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Gau Thuringia

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. Reich Defense Commissioner and Gau Thuringia are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Gau Württemberg-Hohenzollern

The Gau Württemberg-Hohenzollern, formed on 8 July 1925, was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in the German state of Württemberg and the Prussian province of Hohenzollern. Reich Defense Commissioner and Gau Württemberg-Hohenzollern are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Gauleiter

A Gauleiter was a regional leader of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) who served as the head of a Gau or Reichsgau.

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Hamburg

Hamburg (Hamborg), officially the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg,.

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Invasion of Poland

The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, Polish Campaign, War of Poland of 1939, and Polish Defensive War of 1939 (1 September – 6 October 1939), was a joint attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany, the Slovak Republic, and the Soviet Union, which marked the beginning of World War II.

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Jakob Sprenger

Jakob Sprenger (24 July 1884 – 7 May 1945) was a Nazi Party official and politician who was the Party's Gauleiter of Hesse-Nassau South from 1927 to 1933 and Gau Hesse-Nassau from 1933 to 1945.

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Josef Bürckel

Joseph Bürckel (30 March 1895 – 28 September 1944) was a German Nazi politician and a member of the German parliament (the ''Reichstag'').

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Josef Terboven

Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven (23 May 1898 – 8 May 1945) was a German Nazi Party official and politician who was the long-serving Gauleiter of Gau Essen and the Reichskommissar for Norway during the German occupation.

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Josef Wagner (Gauleiter)

Josef Wagner (12 January 1899 – 22 April or 2 May 1945) was from 1931 the Nazi Gauleiter of Gau Westphalia-South and, as of December 1934, also of Gau Silesia.

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Joseph Goebbels

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and philologist who was the Gauleiter (district leader) of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and then Reich Minister of Propaganda from 1933 to 1945.

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Karl Kaufmann

Karl Kaufmann (10 October 1900 – 4 December 1969) was a German politician who served as a Nazi Party Gauleiter from 1925 to 1945 and as the Reichsstatthalter (Reich Governor) of Hamburg from 1933 to 1945.

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Landeshauptmann

The Landeshauptmann (if male) or Landeshauptfrau (if female) ("state captain", plural Landeshauptleute) is the chairman of a state government and the supreme official of an Austrian state and the Italian autonomous provinces of South Tyrol and Trentino.

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Martin Mutschmann

Martin Mutschmann (9 March 1879 – 14 February 1947) was the Nazi Regional Leader (Gauleiter) of the state of Saxony (Gau Saxony) during the time of the Third Reich.

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Military district (Germany)

The military districts, also known in some English-language publications by their German name as Wehrkreise (singular: Wehrkreis), were administrative territorial units in Nazi Germany before and during World War II.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship. Reich Defense Commissioner and Nazi Germany are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Nazi Party

The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism. Reich Defense Commissioner and Nazi Party are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Oberpräsident

The label (Supreme President) was the highest administrative official in the Prussian provinces.

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Ostmark (Austria)

Ostmark ("Eastern March") was a name that referred historically to the Margraviate of Austria, a medieval frontier march.

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People's State of Hesse

The People's State of Hesse (Volksstaat Hessen) was one of the constituent states of Germany from 1918 to 1945, as the successor to the Grand Duchy of Hesse (Großherzogtum Hessen) after the defeat of the German Empire in World War I, on the territory of the current German states of Hesse and the Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Province of Brandenburg

The Province of Brandenburg (Provinz Brandenburg) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1945.

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Province of Pomerania (1815–1945)

The Province of Pomerania (Provinz Pommern; Prowincja Pomorze) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1945. Reich Defense Commissioner and province of Pomerania (1815–1945) are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Province of Saxony

The Province of Saxony (Provinz Sachsen), also known as Prussian Saxony (Preußisches Sachsen), was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Free State of Prussia from 1816 until 1944. Reich Defense Commissioner and province of Saxony are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Province of Silesia

The Province of Silesia (Provinz Schlesien; Prowincja Śląska; Prowincyjŏ Ślōnskŏ) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1919.

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Provinces of Prussia

The Provinces of Prussia (Provinzen Preußens) were the main administrative divisions of Prussia from 1815 to 1946.

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Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War

The Reich Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort (Reichsbevollmächtigter für den totalen Kriegseinsatz) was a position created by Adolf Hitler, the Führer ("leader") of Nazi Germany, on 23 July 1944 for Joseph Goebbels, who was also at the time the regime's Propaganda Minister.

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Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia

Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia (Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreußen) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany created on 8 October 1939 from annexed territory of the Free City of Danzig, the Greater Pomeranian Voivodship (Polish Corridor), and the ''Regierungsbezirk'' West Prussia of Gau East Prussia. Reich Defense Commissioner and Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia are 1939 establishments in Germany and 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Reichsgau Salzburg

The Reichsgau Salzburg was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in Salzburg, Austria. Reich Defense Commissioner and Reichsgau Salzburg are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Reichsgau Wartheland

The Reichsgau Wartheland (initially Reichsgau Posen, also Warthegau) was a Nazi German Reichsgau formed from parts of Polish territory annexed in 1939 during World War II. Reich Defense Commissioner and Reichsgau Wartheland are 1939 establishments in Germany and 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Reichsgau Wien

The Reichsgau Vienna (German: Reichsgau Wien) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany based in Vienna, Austria. Reich Defense Commissioner and Reichsgau Wien are 1945 disestablishments in Germany.

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Reichskommissar

(rendered as "Commissioner of the Empire", "Reich Commissioner" or "Imperial Commissioner"), in German history, was an official governatorial title used for various public offices during the period of the German Empire and Nazi Germany.

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Reichsminister

Reichsminister (in German singular and plural; 'minister of the realm') was the title of members of the German Government during two historical periods: during the March Revolution of 1848/1849 in the German Reich of that period, and in the modern German federal state from 1919 to the end of the National Socialist regime in 1945.

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Reichsstatthalter

The Reichsstatthalter (Reich lieutenant) was a title used in the German Empire and later in Nazi Germany.

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Rhine Province

The Rhine Province (Rheinprovinz), also known as Rhenish Prussia (Rheinpreußen) or synonymous with the Rhineland (Rheinland), was the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia, within the German Reich, from 1822 to 1945.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reich_Defense_Commissioner

Also known as Reichsverteidigungskommissar.

, Provinces of Prussia, Reich Plenipotentiary for Total War, Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, Reichsgau Salzburg, Reichsgau Wartheland, Reichsgau Wien, Reichskommissar, Reichsminister, Reichsstatthalter, Rhine Province, Rudolf Jordan (politician), Salzburg (federal state), States of the Weimar Republic, Thuringia, Volkssturm, Wehrmacht, Wilhelm Murr, World War II.

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