 Hitler’s success in these elections paved the way for his Enabling Act of 1933 ("Ermächtigungsgesetz"), thus starting the Third Reich in earnest.The village itself came through the Second World War unscathed, but the memorial at the graveyard lists 51 fallen.In the course of administrative restructuring in 1968, Gumbsweiler lost its autonomy with the founding of the new "Ortsgemeinde" of Sankt Julian with the constituent communities ("Ortsteile") of Eschenau, Gumbsweiler, Obereisenbach and Sankt Julian.