Ruler · 1897 – 1945

Joseph Goebbels

Lived 1897 – 1945; politician. Gauleiter of Gau Westmark, 1926 – 1945.

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Lived: 1897 – 1945; 48 years
In office: 19 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Gau Westmark
Left it: died by suicide; Wikidata's manner of death

Gauleiter

Gau Westmark · the 4th 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

Albert Forster1930 – 1945

8 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 – 1945 · 19 years · came to it aged 29

Left it: died by suicideWikidata's manner of death: suicide; cyanide poisoning; gunshot wound

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