Ruler · 1895 – 1944

Josef Bürckel

Lived 1895 – 1944; politician. Head of state of Gau Westmark, 1926 – 1944; also in the line of Austria within Nazi Germany.

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Lived: 1895 – 1944; 49 years
In office: 18 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: died in office; read off the dates alone

Head of state

Gau Westmark · the 3rd of 15 dated reigns · 1925 – 1945

Friedrich Wambsganß1925 – 1926

Robert Heinrich Wagner1925 – 1945

Josef Bürckel1926 – 1944

Joseph Goebbels1926 – 1945

Karl Wahl1928 – …

Friedrich Karl Florian1930 – 1945

9 after

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1926 – 1944 · 18 years · came to it aged 31

Left it: died in officeread off the dates alone: the term ends in 1944, the year they died

Also in the line of Austria within Nazi Germany (1st of 1).

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