# der Gauleiter

der Gauleiter is a German noun meaning “gauleiter”. Forms: des Gauleiters, die Gauleiter.

## Forms

- Genitive: des Gauleiters
- Plural: die Gauleiter

## In other languages

- Русский: гаулейтер

## Meanings

1. _historical_ A 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).
2. 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.“

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