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The Gau Cologne-Aachen (German: Gau Köln-Aachen) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in the north-central part of the Prussian Rhine Province. Before that, from 1931 to 1933, it was the regional subdivision of the Nazi Party in that area. History. Establishment and government.
Formed from the eastern part of the state of Bavaria; originally named Bayrische Ostmark, renamed Gau Bayreuth in 1942; also incorporated parts of Czechoslovakia from 1938 Cologne-Aachen: Köln-Aachen: Cologne: 1934 Formed from the north-central part of the Prussian province of the Rhine: Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf: Düsseldorf: 1934
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On 13 July 1944, the Gauleiter of Gau Cologne-Aachen, Josef Grohé, was named Reichskommissar of the territory, known as the Reichskommissariat Belgien und Nordfrankreich or Reichskommissariat für die besetzte Gebiete von Belgien und Nordfrankreich.
- Civil administration
Background. Nazi career. Post-war life. Sources. Further reading. External links. Josef Grohé (6 November 1902 – 27 December 1987) was a German Nazi Party official. He was the long-serving Gauleiter of Gau Cologne-Aachen and Reichskommissar for Belgium and Northern France toward the end of the Second World War . Background.
- Position created
- Adolf Hitler
- Position abolished
The Cologne–Aachen high-speed line is the German part of the Trans-European transport networks project high-speed line Paris – Brussels – Cologne. It is not a newly built railway line, but a project to upgrade the existing railway line which was opened in 1841 by the Rhenish Railway Company.
- 2600 (Cologne–Aachen), 2622 (Cologne–Düren)
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- Schnellfahrstrecke Köln–Aachen
- North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Gau. (territory) Medieval duchies (in colour) and gaue in the Holy Roman Empire around year 1000. Gau ( German: [ɡaʊ] ⓘ; Dutch: gouw [ɣʌu] ⓘ; West Frisian: gea [ɡɪə] or goa [ɡoə]) is a Germanic term for a region within a country, often a former or current province. It was used in the Middle Ages, when it can be seen as roughly ...
Le Gau Köln-Aachen est à gauche et en vert, à la frontière avec la Belgique. Le Gau Köln-Aachen, c’est-à-dire Gau ("pays") de Cologne-Aachen, était une subdivision administrative du Parti nazi (NSDAP) mise en place en 1940 par le régime nazi.
