Explore Gauleiter through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Gauleiter meaning
- An official in charge of a district of the Nazi Party (after 1933 increasingly adopting state functions).
- Any overbearing or unpleasant official, especially a local official.
Using Gauleiter
- The main meaning on this page is: An official in charge of a district of the Nazi Party (after 1933 increasingly adopting state functions). | Any overbearing or unpleasant official, especially a local official.
- In the example corpus, gauleiter often appears in combinations such as: gauleiter of, the gauleiter.
Context around Gauleiter
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 4 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gauleiter
- In this selection, "gauleiter" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 22.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nazi, german, karl, robert and albert stand out and add context to how "gauleiter" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include beneath the gauleiter were lower and gauleiter karl hanke. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gauleiter" sits close to words such as aanholt, aardwolf and abati, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gauleiter
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Your Gauleiter is amongst you. (5 words)
Gauleiter Karl Hanke declared the city a Festung (fortress) to be held at all costs. (15 words)
Joseph Goebbels began his ascent through the party hierarchy as Gauleiter of Berlin-Brandenburg in 1926. (16 words)
On 13 January 1943, a student riot broke out at Munich University, after the Nazi Gauleiter of Munich and Upper Bavaria had denounced in a speech male students not serving in the army as skulkers, and had made obscene remarks to female students. (43 words)
Blitzkrieg to Defeat, p. 204. With the Nazi Party in charge of organizing the Volkssturm, each Gauleiter, or Nazi Party District Leader, was charged with the leadership, enrollment, and organization of the Volkssturm in their district. (36 words)
At an event arranged by the Nazi Party in January 1931, Ulbricht was allowed by Joseph Goebbels to deliver a speech, the Nazi Party's Gauleiter of Berlin and Brandenburg. (30 words)
Example sentences (10)
At an event arranged by the Nazi Party in January 1931, Ulbricht was allowed by Joseph Goebbels to deliver a speech, the Nazi Party's Gauleiter of Berlin and Brandenburg.
Beneath the Gauleiter were lower-level officials, the Kreisleiter ("county leaders"), Zellenleiter ("cell leaders") and Blockleiter ("block leaders").
Blitzkrieg to Defeat, p. 204. With the Nazi Party in charge of organizing the Volkssturm, each Gauleiter, or Nazi Party District Leader, was charged with the leadership, enrollment, and organization of the Volkssturm in their district.
Gauleiter Karl Hanke declared the city a Festung (fortress) to be held at all costs.
Joseph Goebbels began his ascent through the party hierarchy as Gauleiter of Berlin-Brandenburg in 1926.
On 13 January 1943, a student riot broke out at Munich University, after the Nazi Gauleiter of Munich and Upper Bavaria had denounced in a speech male students not serving in the army as skulkers, and had made obscene remarks to female students.
The actions culminated with the attack on the Gauleiter Robert Wagner, the highest commander of Alsace directly under the order of Hitler.
The German gauleiter Albert Forster considered Kashubians of "low value" and did not support any attempts to create a Kashubian nationality.
Unlike a Gauleiter, a Reichsleiter did not have individual geographic areas under their command, but were responsible for specific spheres of interest.
Your Gauleiter is amongst you.
Common combinations with gauleiter
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- gauleiter of 3×
- the gauleiter 2×