 In 1805, the city, together with the Breisgau and Ortenau areas, became part of Baden.In 1827, when the Archdiocese of Freiburg was founded, Freiburg became the seat of a Catholic archbishop.On 22 October 1940, the Nazi Gauleiter of Baden, Robert Heinrich Wagner, ordered the deportation of all of Baden's and 350 of Freiburg's Jewish population.