Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick

Gau Southern Hanover–Brunswick
Gau of Nazi Germany
1928–1945
Flag Coat of arms
Capital	Hannover
Government
Gauleiter
• 1928–1940	Bernhard Rust
• 1940–1945	Hartmann Lauterbacher
History
• Establishment	1 October 1928
• Disestablishment	8 May 1945
Preceded by Succeeded by Free State of Prussia (1933-1935) Free State of Brunswick Lower Saxony Saxony-Anhalt (1945-1952)
Today part of	Germany

Gau Southern Hanover–Brunswick (German: Gau Südhannover–Braunschweig) was a de facto administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in the Free State of Brunswick and part of the Free State of Prussia. Before that, from its formation on 1 October 1928 to 1933, it was the regional subdivision of the Nazi Party in that area. Gau Southern Hanover-Brunswick was abolished after Germany's defeat in 1945. The territory after the war became part of Lower Saxony in West Germany.