English name German name Headquarters Established Notes Baden Baden Karlsruhe 1934 Formed from the state of Baden; in 1940-45 the Gau included the former French départements of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin as Baden-Elsaß Bayreuth Bayreuth Bayreuth 1934 Formed from part of the state of Bavaria; originally named Bayrische Ostmark, renamed Gau Bayreuth in 1942; also incooperated parts of Czechoslovakia from 1938 Düsseldorf Düsseldorf Düsseldorf 1934 Formed from the northern half of the Prussian province of the Rhine East Prussia Ostpreußen Königsberg 1934 Formed from the Prussian Province of East Prussia; from 1939 also included territories annexed from Poland Eastern Hanover Ost-Hannover Lüneburg 1934 Formed from the northern, central, and eastern parts of the Prussian Province of Hanover Electoral Hesse Kurhessen Kassel 1934 Formed from the northern half of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau Cologne-Aachen Köln-Aachen Cologne 1934 Formed from the north-central part of the Prussian province of the Rhine Essen Essen Essen 1934 Formed from the northern tip of the Prussian province of the Rhine Franconia Franken Nuremberg 1934 Formed from part of the state of Bavaria Greater Berlin Groß-Berlin Berlin 1934 Formed from the Prussian province of Greater Berlin Halle-Merseburg Halle-Merseburg Halle 1934 Formed from the southern half of the Prussian Province of Saxony Hamburg Hamburg Hamburg 1934 Formed from the state of Hamburg Hesse-Nassau Hessen-Nassau Frankfurt am Main 1934 Formed from the state of Hesse and the southern half of the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau Koblenz-Trier Koblenz-Trier Koblenz 1934 Formed from the southern half of the Prussian province of the Rhine; renamed Gau Moselland in 1942, following the incorporation of the formerly independent country of Luxembourg Magdeburg-Anhalt Magdeburg-Anhalt Dessau 1934 Formed from the Free State of Anhalt and the northern half of the Prussian Province of Saxony Main-Franconia Mainfranken Würzburg 1934 Formed from part of the state of Bavaria March of Brandenburg Mark Brandenburg Berlin 1934 Formed from the Prussian province of Province of Brandenburg Mecklenburg Mecklenburg Schwerin 1934 Formed from the state of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and the Free State of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Munich-Upper Bavaria München-Oberbayern Munich 1934 Formed from part of the state of Bavaria Pomerania Pommern Stettin 1934 Formed from the Prussian Province of Pomerania Saar-Palatinate Saarpfalz Neustadt an der Weinstraße 1934 Formed from the Bavarian Palatinate and the Prussian Saarland; renamed Gau Westmark in 1940 after the incooperation of parts of Lorraine Saxony Sachsen Dresden 1934 Formed from the state of Saxony Silesia Schlesien Breslau 1934 Formed from the states of Upper Silesia (with annexed parts of Poland since 1939) and Lower Silesia.