Paul Wegener (Gauleiter)
| Paul Wegener | |
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| Gauleiter of Weser-Ems | |
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In office 1942–1945 |
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| Preceded by | Carl Röver |
| Succeeded by | None |
| Reichsstatthalter of the Free State of Oldenburg | |
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In office 1942–1945 |
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| Prime Minister | Dietrich Klagges |
| Preceded by | Carl Röver |
| Succeeded by | None |
| Reichsstatthalter of the Free City of Bremen | |
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In office 1942–1945 |
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| Preceded by | Carl Röver |
| Succeeded by | None |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 1, 1908 Varel, German Empire |
| Died | May 5, 1993 (aged 84) Wächtersbach, Germany |
| Political party | National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) |
Paul Wegener (1 October 1908 in Varel – 5 May 1993 in Wächtersbach) was a German Nazi Party official.
Wegener joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and the Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1931. He became Kreisleiter for Bremen in 1933 and a delegate to the Reichstag for Weser-Ems that same year. Wegener served as a party bureaucrat employed at the Office of the Deputy Führer where his efficiency impressed Martin Bormann. When Wilhelm Kube was removed as Gauleiter of Gau March of Brandenburg after clashing with Walter Buch, he was replaced by Emil Sturtz with Wegener appointed as deputy Gauleiter.
Wegener switched from the SA to the Schutzstaffel (SS) in 1940 obtaining the rank of SS-Gruppenführer in 1942 and SS-Obergruppenführer two years later. He also saw active service with the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler during the Balkans Campaign in Greece in 1941.
On 20 April 1940 Josef Terboven, newly appointed as Reichskommissar for the occupied Norwegian territories, selected Wegener to serve as his deputy. From the start Wegener was hostile to the notion that Vidkun Quisling should take a leading role in the new government, instead favouring the idea that the Nazis should establish their own administrative system in Norway. Eventually when it was decided to include Quisling he established the Einsatzstab Wegener, which placed pro-Wegener men in each branch of the Nasjonal Samling, both to improve the organisation of what had been a minor party and to ensure complicity with the demands of the governing Nazis. He left Norway in 1942 when Hans-Hendrik Neumann took over as Terboven's number two.
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