Gau Düsseldorf
| Gau Düsseldorf | |||||||||
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| Gau of Nazi Germany | |||||||||
| 1930–1945 | |||||||||
Gau Düsseldorf on the left, bordering The Netherlands | |||||||||
| Capital | Düsseldorf | ||||||||
| Area | |||||||||
• | 2,700 km2 (1,000 sq mi) | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• | 2,200,000 | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| Gauleiter | |||||||||
• 1930–1945 | Friedrich Karl Florian | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
| 1 August 1930 | |||||||||
• Allied capture of Düsseldorf and destruction of the Ruhr pocket | 18 April 1945 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||
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The Gau Düsseldorf was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in the Düsseldorf region of the Prussian Rhine Province. Before that, from 1930 to 1933, it was the regional subdivision of the Nazi Party in that area.