Gau East Prussia was formed in 1933 in Nazi Germany initially as a district within the Free State of Prussia, in 1939, East Prussia expanded following the annexation of which location, that was defined by the Treaty of Versailles in 1920 and refers to the most northern part of the German province of East Prussia, when as Memelland it was put under the administration of the Council of Ambassadors?
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Gau East Prussia Gau East Prussia was formed in 1933 in Nazi Germany initially as a district within the Free State of Prussia. In 1935, Germany's constituent states were dissolved and the Gaus replaced the states and their responsibilities. In 1939, East Prussia expanded following the annexation of the Klaipėda Region from Lithuania and the occupation of Poland, while a sliver of territory from the gau was transferred to Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia. After Germany's attack on the USSR, the Belarusian city of Hrodna (German: "Garten" ) also became part of the Gau.
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Klaipėda Region The Klaipėda Region (Lithuanian: "Klaipėdos kraštas" ) or Memel Territory (German: "Memelland" or "Memelgebiet" ) was defined by the Treaty of Versailles in 1920 and refers to the most northern part of the German province of East Prussia, when as Memelland it was put under the administration of the Council of Ambassadors. The Memel Territory, together with the other parts severed from Germany, the Saar and Danzig, was to remain under the control of the League of Nations until a future day when the people of these regions would be allowed to vote on whether the land would return to Germany or not.
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Heim ins Reich The Heim ins Reich (] ; meaning "back home to the Reich") was a foreign policy pursued by Adolf Hitler during World War II, beginning in 1938. The aim of Hitler's initiative was to convince all "Volksdeutsche" (ethnic Germans) who were living outside Nazi Germany (e.g. in Austria, Czechoslovakia and the western districts of Poland) that they should strive to bring these regions "home" into Greater Germany, but also, relocate from territories that were not under German control, following the conquest of Poland in accordance with the Nazi-Soviet pact. The "Heim ins Reich" manifesto targeted areas ceded in Versailles to the newly reborn nation of Poland, as well as other areas that were inhabited by significant German populations such as the Sudetenland, Danzig, and the south-eastern and north-eastern regions of Europe after October 6, 1939.
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Rhine Province The Rhine Province (German: "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 1946. It was created from the provinces of the Lower Rhine and Jülich-Cleves-Berg. Its capital was Koblenz and in 1939 it had 8 million inhabitants. The Province of Hohenzollern was militarily associated with the Oberpräsident of the Rhine Province.
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Gau Mecklenburg The Gau Mecklenburg, named Gau Mecklenburg-Lübeck until 1937, was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Before that, from 1926 to 1933, it was the regional subdivision of the Nazi Party in that area.
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Province of Westphalia The Province of Westphalia (German: "Provinz Westfalen" ) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1815 to 1946.
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Alsace-Lorraine The Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine (German: "Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen" or "Elsass-Lothringen", French: "Terre d'Empire d'Alsace-Lorraine" or "Alsace-Moselle") was a territory created by the German Empire in 1871 after it annexed most of Alsace and the Moselle department of Lorraine following its victory in the Franco-Prussian War. The Alsatian part lay in the Rhine Valley on the west bank of the Rhine River and east of the Vosges Mountains. The Lorraine section was in the upper Moselle valley to the north of the Vosges.
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North Ingria The Republic of North Ingria (Finnish: "Pohjois-Inkerin tasavalta" ) or Republic of Kirjasalo (Finnish: "Kirjasalon tasavalta" ) was a short-lived state of Ingrian Finns in the southern part of the Karelian Isthmus, which seceded from Bolshevist Russia after the October Revolution. Its aim was to be incorporated into Finland. It ruled parts of Northern Ingria from 1919 until 1920. With the Peace Treaty of Tartu it was re-integrated into Russia. However, Ingrian Finns of this area enjoyed a certain degree of national autonomy until the 1930s in compliance with the policy of national delimitation in the Soviet Union. In 1928 the Kuivaisi National District was established there with its administrative base in Toksovo. In 1939 it was abolished and the area was joined to the Pargolovo district. Today, it is the north-eastern part of Vsevolozhsky District.
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Reichsgau Sudetenland The Reichsgau Sudetenland was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1939 to 1945. It comprised the northern part of the "Sudetenland" territory, which was annexed from Czechoslovakia according to the 1938 Munich Agreement. The "Reichsgau" was headed by the Sudeten German activist Konrad Henlein in the rank of a "Reichsstatthalter". The administrative capital was Reichenberg (Liberec).
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Administration of West Prussia before 1919 The Administration of West Prussia before 1919 consisted of the following officials:
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Landtag of Prussia The Landtag of Prussia (German: "Preußischer Landtag") was the representative assembly of the Kingdom of Prussia implemented in 1849, a bicameral legislature consisting of the upper House of Lords ("Herrenhaus") and the lower House of Representatives ("Abgeordnetenhaus"). After World War I and the German Revolution of 1918–19 the "Landtag" diet continued as the parliament of the Free State of Prussia between 1921 and 1933.
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Schleswig plebiscites, 1920 The Schleswig plebiscites were two plebiscites, organized according to section XII, articles 109 to 114 of the Treaty of Versailles of June 28, 1919, in order to determine the future border between Denmark and Germany through the former duchy of Schleswig. The process was monitored by a commission with representatives from France, the United Kingdom, Norway and Sweden.
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Kingdom of Saxony The Kingdom of Saxony (German: "Königreich Sachsen" ), lasting between 1806 and 1918, was an independent member of a number of historical confederacies in Napoleonic through post-Napoleonic Germany. The kingdom was formed from the Electorate of Saxony. From 1871 it was part of the German Empire. It became a Free state in the era of Weimar Republic in 1918 after the end of World War I and the abdication of King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony. Its capital was the city of Dresden, and its modern successor state is the Free State of Saxony.
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New East Prussia New East Prussia (German: "Neuostpreußen" ; Polish: "Prusy Nowowschodnie" ; Lithuanian: "Naujieji Rytprūsiai" ) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1795 to 1807. It was created out of territory annexed in the Third Partition of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and included parts of Masovia, Podlaskie, Trakai voivodeship and Žemaitija. In 1806 it had 914,610 inhabitants with a territory of less than 55,000 km².
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Gau Thuringia The Gau Thuringia (German: "Gau ThüringenThuringia") was an administrative division of Nazi Germany in Thuringia from 1933 to 1945. Before that, from 1926 to 1933, it was the regional subdivision of the Nazi Party in that area.
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Greater Berlin Act The Greater Berlin Act (German: "Groß-Berlin-Gesetz" ), in full the Law Regarding the Reconstruction of the New Local Authority of Berlin (German: "Gesetz über die Bildung einer neuen Stadtgemeinde Berlin" ), was a law passed by the Prussian government in 1920 that greatly expanded the size of the German capital of Berlin.
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North Rhine The Province of North Rhine (German: "Provinz Nordrhein" ), also called North Rhine Province ("Nordrhein-Provinz" or "Nord-Rheinprovinz"), was a short-lived administrative region in the British occupation zone of Germany, which was formed from the northern part of the Rhine Province after the end of the Second World War.
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Territorial evolution of Germany The territorial changes of Germany include all changes in the borders and territory of Germany from its formation in 1871 to the present. Modern Germany was formed in 1871 when Otto von Bismarck unified most of the German states, with the notable exception of Austria, into the German Empire. After the First World War Germany lost about 10% of its territory to its neighbours and the Weimar Republic was formed. This republic included territories to the east of today's German borders.
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People's State of Reuss The People's State of Reuss (German: "Volksstaat Reuß" ) was a short-lived country in what is now Thuringia. The state was formed on 4 April 1919 after the reigning princes of the two Reuss principalities abdicated and elections were held in both states. It united with six other small states to form Thuringia, a member state of the Weimar Republic, on 1 May 1920.
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Greater Hamburg Act The Greater Hamburg Act (German: "Groß-Hamburg-Gesetz" ), in full the Law Regarding Greater Hamburg and Other Territorial Readjustments (German: "Gesetz über Groß-Hamburg und andere Gebietsbereinigungen" ), was passed by the government of Nazi Germany on 26 January 1937, and mandated the exchange of territories between Hamburg and the Free State of Prussia. It became effective on 1 April 1937.
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Reichsgau Niederdonau The Reichsgau Niederdonau (English: "Gau Lower Danube") was an administrative division of Nazi Germany consisting of areas in Lower Austria, Burgenland, southeastern parts of Bohemia and southern parts of Moravia. It existed between 1938 and 1945.
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Danzig (region) The Danzig Region (Regierungsbezirk Danzig) was a "government region", within the Prussian Provinces of West Prussia and of Prussia. The regional capital was Danzig (Gdańsk). Prussian government regions were no bodies of regional self-rule of the districts and cities comprised, but shear top-to-down government agencies to apply federal or state law and supervise local entities of self-rules, such as municipalities, rural and urban districts.