Carl Röver
| Carl Georg Röver | |
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| Gauleiter of Weser-Ems | |
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In office 1929–1942 |
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| Succeeded by | Paul Wegener |
| Reichsstatthalter of the Free State of Oldenburg | |
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In office 1933–1942 |
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| Prime Minister | Georg Joel |
| Preceded by | None |
| Succeeded by | Paul Wegener |
| Reichsstatthalter of the Free City of Bremen | |
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In office 1933–1942 |
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| Preceded by | None |
| Succeeded by | Paul Wegener |
| Minister-President of the Free State of Oldenburg | |
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In office 1932–1933 |
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| Preceded by | Friedrich Cassebohm |
| Succeeded by | Georg Joel |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
February 12, 1889 Lemwerder, German Empire |
| Died | May 15, 1942 (aged 53) Berlin, Germany |
| Political party | National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) |
Carl Georg Röver (born 12 February 1889 in Lemwerder – died 15 May 1942 in Berlin) was a German Nazi Party official. His main posts were as Gauleiter of Weser-Ems and Reichsstatthalter of Oldenburg/Bremen.
Röver saw service in the First World War, initially with the regular army before joining the Propaganda department of the Oberste Heeresleitung. He became a member of the Nazi Party in 1923. He also joined the Sturmabteilung, rising to the rank of Obergruppenführer.
Already before the Nazis came to power, Carl Röver acted as Gauleiter in Oldenburg, that by 1932 was already ruled by the National-Socialists. When in September 1932 the Oldenburg superior church council, the executive board of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg, decided to give permission to use the St. Lambert's Church in Oldenburg city for the sermon of the African Pastor Robert Kwami Röver reacted immediately, directing racist tirades against Kwami, the Norddeutsche Mission and the superior church council demanding to postpone the sermon. The Nazi-party called upon the State Ministry of Oldenburg, the Nazi-dominated state government, to stop the sermon. Despite the public threats by the local Nazis that were later become known as the so-called Kwami Affair, the sermon was carried out as planned September 20, 1932. Röver was appointed to the post of Reichsstatthalter for the states of Oldenburg and Bremen in April 1933 after the Nazi regime reorganised local government in Germany. In this post he played a role in the perpetration of the Holocaust as he personally signed the order for every Jew deported from Bremen during his life.
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