R.2 - National Socialist Party documentation from the Gau Wien (Vienna District), 1938-1945

R.2 - National Socialist Party documentation from the Gau Wien (Vienna District), 1938-1945 NSDAP Gau Wien was established in 1926. The last Gauleiter (District Director) before the annexation of Austria to Germany was Dr. Leopold Tavs, who was appointed to this position in 1937. On 22 May 1938, after the Anschluss, when all the institutions in Austria, including the Nazi institutions were reorganized, SS-Standartenführer Odilo Globocnik was given that position. He was removed from his job after suspicions of corruption on his part arose, and Josef Bürckel was appointed in his place on 31 January 1939. Bürckel also served as Reichskommissar fuer die Wiedervereinigung Oesterreichs mit dem Deutschen Reich (Commissar for the Reunification of Austria with the German Reich). On 08 July 1940, Baldur von Schirach, the former Reichsjugendführer (Reich Youth Commander) was appointed District Director, remaining at that position until the end of the war.