State · 1925 – 1945
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A state of 1925 – 1945 — 20 years in Europe. It replaced Bavaria and followed French Third Republic, Moselle and Territory of the Saar Basin and 1 more. It was replaced by Rhineland-Palatinate and followed by Provisional Government of the French Republic and French occupation zone in Germany. The atlas records 20 things within it — people 20. Its line of rulers holds 40 people, 14 with dated terms.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 20 years
- 1925 – 1945
- Rulers
- 40
- the Gauleiter
- Within it
- 20
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 2
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Bavaria · replaces
- Moselle · follows
- Territory of the Saar Basin · follows
- Free State of Oldenburg · follows
- French Third Republic · follows · 1870 – 1940
After it
- Rhineland-Palatinate · replaced by
- French occupation zone in Germany · followed by
- Provisional Government of the French Republic · followed by · 1944 – 1946
Rulers
The line of Gauleiter - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Friedrich Wambsganß | 1925 – 1926 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Robert Heinrich Wagner | 1925 – 1945 | 20 years | executedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Josef Bürckel | 1926 – 1944 | 18 years | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Joseph Goebbels | 1926 – 1945 | 19 years | died by suicideWikidata's manner of death | |
| Karl Wahl | 1928 – — | no end recorded | ending not on record | |
| Friedrich Karl Florian | 1930 – 1945 | 15 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Albert Forster | 1930 – 1945 | 15 years | ended by a named eventWikidata's end cause on the term | |
| Adolf Hitler | 1933 – 1945 | 12 years | died by suicideWikidata's manner of death | |
| Hermann Göring | 1933 – 1945 | 12 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Franz Ritter von Epp | 1933 – 1945 | 12 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Robert Heinrich Wagner | 1933 – 1945 | 12 years | executedWikidata's manner of death | |
| Karl Gerland | 1938 – — | no end recorded | ending not on record | |
| Odilo Globocnik | 1938 – — | no end recorded | ending not on record | |
| Emil Stürtz | 1939 – — | no end recorded | ending not on record | |
| Willi Stöhr | 1944 – 1945 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone |
40 rulers, 14 with terms dated as terms, covering 1925 – 1945. Only 20 years of the line are dated - too short for a median. 10 of 14 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 1.00, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
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coat of arms, undatedReichsadler Deutsches Reich (1935–1945) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Germany_(1935%E2%80%931945).svg.png)
flag, 1933 – 1945Flag of Germany (1935–1945) · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 19998 rows
- Odilo Globocnik · ruler · 1904 – 1945
- Albert Forster · ruler · 1902 – 1952
- August Eigruber · ruler · 1907 – 1947
- Gustav Simon · ruler · 1900 – 1945
- Jef van de Wiele · ruler · 1903 – 1979
- Gustav Adolf Scheel · ruler · 1907 – 1979
- Karl Gerland · ruler · 1905 – 1945
- Willi Stöhr · ruler · 1903 – 1994
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood20 years
stood longer than 23% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- Rulers on record40
has more rulers on record than 96% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 7 causes the record names and 3 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1915 – 1955, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1935, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q2114827 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.