Goebbels becomes NSDAP Gauleiter

On 1 November 1926, Adolf Hitler appoints one of his closest associates, Joseph Goebbels, to be the „Gauleiter“ of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) in Berlin-Brandenburg.

© C.H.E.F. Hitler and Goebbels, 1926

The region is considered a „red enclave“ for the social democrats and communists. Until then the NSDAP had only 500 party members in the region (out of a national total of ca. 50,000).