DRL Gau Sword Chanpionship Plaque

[RonR]

Gau Mainfranken 1937 competition.........


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[RonR]

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[blackbird939]

Wow.. Nice!!!

[Il_brillante]

[JoeW]

Ron, how did you determine that the Gau was Mainfranken? From the number 15 correla

[RonR]

Joe,

Yes from the number 15.

Used this chart.

Am I in error again?

Nazi Party Gaue

<table style="border-collapse:collapse;" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr style="background:#abcdef;"> <td>Nr.</td> <td style="background:#abcdef;">Gau</td> <td style="background:#abcdef;">Headquarters</td> <td style="background:#abcdef;">Area (km²)</td> <td style="background:#abcdef;">Inhabitants (1941)</td> <td style="background:#abcdef;">Gauleiter (exl. deputies)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>01</td> <td>Baden-Elsaß</td> <td>Karlsruhe, after 1940 Strasbourg</td> <td>23,350</td> <td>2,502,023</td> <td>Robert Heinrich Wagner, from 1925 (later also Reichsstatthalter)</td> </tr> <tr> <td>02</td> <td>Bayreuth, renaming of Gau Bayerische Ostmark (Bavarian Eastern March)</td> <td>Bayreuth</td> <td>29,600</td> <td>2,370,658</td> <td>Fritz Wächtler from 2 June 1942 to 19 April 1945, then from 19 April 1945 Ludwig Ruckdeschel.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>03</td> <td>Groß-Berlin</td> <td>Berlin</td> <td>884</td> <td>4,338,756</td> <td>Ernst Schlange from 1925 to 1926, then from 1 November 1926 to 30 April 1945 Joseph Goebbels</td> </tr> <tr> <td>04</td> <td>Danzig-Westpreußen</td> <td>Danzig</td> <td>26,057</td> <td>2,287,394</td> <td>Hans Albert Hohnfeldt from 1926 to 1928, then from 1928 to 1930 Walter Maass, then from 15 October 1930 onwards Albert Forster</td> </tr> <tr> <td>05</td> <td>Düsseldorf</td> <td>Düsseldorf</td> <td>2,672</td> <td>2,261,909</td> <td>Friedrich Karl Florian from 1 January 1930</td> </tr> <tr> <td>06</td> <td>Essen</td> <td>Essen</td> <td>2,825</td> <td>1,921,326</td> <td>Josef Terboven (Oberpräsident) from 1928</td> </tr> <tr> <td>07</td> <td>Franken</td> <td>Nuremberg</td> <td>7,618</td> <td>1,077,216</td> <td>from 1929 to 1940 Julius Streicher ("Frankenführer"), then from 16 February 1940 to 1942 Hans Zimmermann, then from 19 March 1942 Karl Holz</td> </tr> <tr> <td>08</td> <td>Halle-Merseburg</td> <td>Halle an der Saale</td> <td>10,202</td> <td>1,578,292</td> <td>from 1925 to 30 July 1926 Walter Ernst 1 August 1926 to 1927, then from 1927 to 1930 Paul Hinkler, then from 1930 to 20 April 1937 Rudolf Jordan, then from 20 April 1937 Joachim Albrecht Eggeling</td> </tr> <tr> <td>09</td> <td>Hamburg</td> <td>Hamburg</td> <td>747</td> <td>1,711,877</td> <td>Joseph Klant from 1925 to 1926, then from 1927 to 1928 Albert Krebs, then from 1928 to 15 April 1929 Hinrich Lohse, then from 15 April 1929 Karl Kaufmann</td> </tr> <tr> <td>10</td> <td>Hessen-Nassau</td> <td>Frankfurt</td> <td>15,030</td> <td>3,117,266</td> <td>Jakob Sprenger from 1933</td> </tr> <tr> <td>11</td> <td>Kärnten</td> <td>Klagenfurt</td> <td>11,554</td> <td>449,713</td> <td>Hans vom Kothen from February 1933 to July 1934, then Peter Feistritzer from October 1936 to 20 February 1938, then from 1938 to 1939 Hubert Klausner, then from 1940 to 1941 Franz Kutschera, then from 1942 to 1944 Friedrich Rainer</td> </tr> <tr> <td>12</td> <td>Köln-Aachen</td> <td>Köln</td> <td>8,162</td> <td>2,432,095</td> <td>Joseph Grohé from 1931</td> </tr> <tr> <td>13</td> <td>Kurhessen</td> <td>Kassel</td> <td>9,200</td> <td>971,887</td> <td>Walter Schultz from 1926 to 1927, then from 1928 to 1943 Karl Weinrich, then from 1943 Karl Gerland</td> </tr> <tr> <td>14</td> <td>Magdeburg-Anhalt</td> <td>Dessau</td> <td>13,910</td> <td>1,820,416</td> <td>from 1927 onwards, with a short-lived replacement by Paul Hofmann in 1933, to 23 October 1935 Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper, then from 1935 to 1937 Joachim Albrecht Leo Eggeling, then from 1937 Rudolf Jordan</td> </tr> <tr> <td>15</td> <td>Mainfranken, renaming of Gau Unterfranken</td> <td>Würzburg</td> <td>8,432</td> <td>840,663</td> <td>Otto Hellmuth from 3 September 1928</td> </tr> <tr> <td>16</td> <td>Mark Brandenburg</td> <td>Berlin</td> <td>38,278</td> <td>3,007,933</td> <td>Wilhelm Kube from 6 March 1933 to 7 August 1936, then Emil Stürtz</td> </tr> <tr> <td>17</td> <td>Mecklenburg</td> <td>Schwerin</td> <td>15,722</td> <td>900,427</td> <td>Friedrich Hildebrandt from 1925 onwards with a short-lived replacement by Herbert Albrecht from July 1930 to 1931</td> </tr> <tr> <td>18</td> <td>Moselland, renaming of Gau Koblenz-Trier in 1942</td> <td>Koblenz</td> <td>11,876</td> <td>1,367,354</td> <td>Gustav Simon from 1 June 1931</td> </tr> <tr> <td>19</td> <td>München-Oberbayern,</td> <td>Munich</td> <td>16,411</td> <td>1,938,447</td> <td>Adolf Wagner von 1933 to 1944, then from April 1944 Paul Giesler</td> </tr> <tr> <td>20</td> <td>Niederdonau</td> <td>Nominal capital: Krems, District Headquarters: Vienna</td> <td>23,502</td> <td>1,697,676</td> <td>From 12 March 1938 to 24 May 1938 Roman Jäger, then from 24 May 1938 to 8 May 1945 Hugo Jury</td> </tr> <tr> <td>21</td> <td>Niederschlesien</td> <td>Breslau</td> <td>26,985</td> <td>3,286,539</td> <td>Karl Hanke from 1940</td> </tr> <tr> <td>22</td> <td>Oberdonau</td> <td>Linz</td> <td>14,216</td> <td>1,034,871</td> <td>Andreas Bolek from June 1927 to 1 August 1934, then from March 1935 August Eigruber</td> </tr> <tr> <td>23</td> <td>Oberschlesien</td> <td>Kattowitz</td> <td>20,636</td> <td>4,341,084</td> <td>Fritz Bracht from 27 January 1941]</td> </tr> <tr> <td>24</td> <td>Ost-Hannover (also known as Hannover-Ost)</td> <td>Harburg, then Buchholz, after 1 April 1937 Lüneburg</td> <td>18,006</td> <td>1,060,509</td> <td>from 1 October 1928 Otto Telschow</td> </tr> <tr> <td>25</td> <td>Ostpreußen</td> <td>Königsberg</td> <td>52,731</td> <td>3,336,777</td> <td>Bruno Gustav Scherwitz from 1925 to 1927, then from 1928 Erich Koch</td> </tr> <tr> <td>26</td> <td>Pommern</td> <td>Stettin</td> <td>38,409</td> <td>2,393,844</td> <td>Theodor Vahlen from 1925 to 1927, then from 1928 to 1931 Walter von Corswant, then from 1931 to 1934 Wilhelm Karpenstein, then from 1935 Franz Schwede-Coburg</td> </tr> <tr> <td>27</td> <td>Sachsen</td> <td>Dresden</td> <td>14,995</td> <td>5,231,739</td> <td>Albert Wierheim around 1925/1926, Martin Mutschmann from 1925</td> </tr> <tr> <td>28</td> <td>Salzburg</td> <td>Salzburg</td> <td>7,153</td> <td>257,226</td> <td>Leopold Malina from 1926 to ??, then Karl Scharizer from 1932 to 1934, then from 1939 to 1941 Friedrich Rainer, then from 1941 Gustav Adolf Scheel</td> </tr> <tr> <td>29</td> <td>Schleswig-Holstein</td> <td>Kiel</td> <td>15,687</td> <td>1,589,267</td> <td>Hinrich Lohse from 1925</td> </tr> <tr> <td>30</td> <td>Schwaben</td> <td>Augsburg</td> <td>10,231</td> <td>946,212</td> <td>Karl Wahl from 1928</td> </tr> <tr> <td>31</td> <td>Steiermark</td> <td>Graz</td> <td>17,384</td> <td>1,116,407</td> <td>Walther Oberhaidacher from 25 November 1928 to 1934, then Sepp Helfrich from 1934 to 1938, then from 22 May 1938 Siegfried Uiberreither</td> </tr> <tr> <td>32</td> <td>Sudetenland, until 1939 known as Gau Sudetengau</td> <td>Reichenberg</td> <td>22,608</td> <td>2,943,187</td> <td>Konrad Henlein from 1939</td> </tr> <tr> <td>33</td> <td>Südhannover-Braunschweig</td> <td>Hannover</td> <td>14,553</td> <td>2,136,961</td> <td>from 1 October 1928 to November 1940 Bernhard Rust, then from November 1940 Hartmann Lauterbacher</td> </tr> <tr> <td>34</td> <td>Thüringen</td> <td>Weimar</td> <td>15,763</td> <td>2,446,182</td> <td>Artur Dinter from 1925 to 1927, then from 1927 Fritz Sauckel</td> </tr> <tr> <td>35</td> <td>Tirol-Vorarlberg</td> <td>Innsbruck</td> <td>13,126</td> <td>486,400</td> <td>Franz Hofer from 1932</td> </tr> <tr> <td>36</td> <td>Wartheland, until 29 January 1940 known as Gau Warthegau)</td> <td>Posen</td> <td>43,905</td> <td>4,693,722</td> <td>Arthur Karl Greiser from 21 October 1939</td> </tr> <tr> <td>37</td> <td>Weser-Ems</td> <td>Oldenburg</td> <td>15,044</td> <td>1,839,302</td> <td>Carl Röver from 1929 to 1942, then from 1942 Paul Wegener</td> </tr> <tr> <td>38</td> <td>Westfalen-Nord</td> <td>Münster</td> <td>14,559</td> <td>2,822,603</td> <td>Alfred Meyer from 1932</td> </tr> <tr> <td>39</td> <td>Westfalen-Süd</td> <td>Bochum</td> <td>7,656</td> <td>2,678,026</td> <td>Josef Wagner from 1932 to 1941, Paul Giesler from 1941 to 1943/44, then from 1943/44 Albert Hoffmann</td> </tr> <tr> <td>40</td> <td>Westmark, renaming of Gau Saar-Pfalz (also known as Saarpfalz)</td> <td>Neustadt an der Weinstraße, after 1940 Saarbrücken</td> <td>14,713</td> <td>1,892,240</td> <td>Josef Bürckel from 1935 to 28 September 1944, then from 28 September 1944 Willi Stöhr</td> </tr> <tr> <td>41</td> <td>Wien</td> <td>Vienna</td> <td>1,216</td> <td>1,929,976</td> <td>Alfred Eduard Frauenfeld from 1932 to 1938, then from May 1938 to January 1939 Odilo Globocnik, then from 1939 to 1940 Josef Bürckel, and then from 1940 Baldur von Schirach</td> </tr> <tr> <td>42</td> <td>Württemberg-Hohenzollern</td> <td>Stuttgart</td> <td>20,657</td> <td>2,974,373</td> <td>Eugen Mander from 1925 to 1928, then from 1928 Wilhelm Murr</td> </tr> <tr> <td>43</td> <td>Auslandsorganisation (also known as NSDAP/AO)</td> <td>Berlin</td> <td>
</td> <td>
</td> <td>Hans Nieland from 1930 to 1933, then from 8 May 1933 Ernst Wilhelm Bohle</td> </tr> </tbody></table>

[JoeW]

I can't say your in error. I always noticed the Gau charts in the Org Books, but always assumed the number column in the list of Gaues was purely numerical. I never realized that they used those numbers for any other purpose. Did the numbers change at all over the years in the different issues of the Org Book with the addition or change of Gaues? Have you ever seen any other similar use of a number to designate a Gau rather than the actual name? I thought the number was associated with a Gau by a NSRL list of some sort. Always wiling to learn though.