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Wilhelm Murr

1888–1945 · 20th century

Wilhelm Murr was the Nazi Gauleiter of Württemberg-Hohenzollern and, from 1933, Reich governor of Württemberg, where he also headed the state government. He ruled the state until the end of the Second World War and killed himself in May 1945.

Wilhelm Murr
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Free People's State of Württemberg

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