Gau Mecklenburg | |||||||||||
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Gau of Nazi Germany | |||||||||||
1925–1945 | |||||||||||
Flag | |||||||||||
Capital | Schwerin | ||||||||||
Government | |||||||||||
Gauleiter | |||||||||||
• 1925–1930 | Friedrich Hildebrandt | ||||||||||
• 1930–1931 | Herbert Albrecht | ||||||||||
• 1931–1945 | Friedrich Hildebrandt | ||||||||||
History | |||||||||||
22 March 1925 | |||||||||||
8 May 1945 | |||||||||||
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Today part of | Germany |
The Gau Mecklenburg, was formed as Gau Mecklenburg-Lübeck on 22 March 1925 and renamed Gau Mecklenburg on 31 March 1937 when Lübeck was transferred to Gau Schleswig-Holstein. It was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Before that, from 1925 to 1933, it was the regional subdivision of the Nazi Party in that area.