Reichsgau Lower Danube | |||||||||||||||||
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Reichsgau of Nazi Germany | |||||||||||||||||
1938–1945 | |||||||||||||||||
Map of Nazi Germany showing its administrative subdivisions (Gaue and Reichsgaue) | |||||||||||||||||
Capital | Krems | ||||||||||||||||
Population | |||||||||||||||||
• 1939 | 1,698,658 | ||||||||||||||||
Government | |||||||||||||||||
Gauleiter | |||||||||||||||||
• 1938–1945 | Hugo Jury | ||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||
12 March 1938 | |||||||||||||||||
8 May 1945 | |||||||||||||||||
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Today part of | Austria Czech Republic Slovakia |
The Reichsgau Lower Danube (German: Reichsgau Niederdonau) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany consisting of areas in Lower Austria, Burgenland, southeastern parts of Bohemia, southern parts of Moravia, later expanded with Devín and Petržalka. It existed between 1938 and 1945.