Meanings
historicalA leader of a Gau (district) of the Nazi Party, after 1933 increasingly adopting state functions, especially when they were concurrently Reichsstatthalter (head of a province or former federal state) or head of a Reichsgau (administrative division in territories annexed to Germany).
gauleiter
„In seiner zweistündigen Ansprache an die in Rastenburg versammelten Reichsleiter und Gauleiter vom 7. Februar 1943 wiederholte Hitler erneut, das Judentum müsse aus dem Reich und aus ganz Europa entfernt werden.“