Carl Georg Röver was a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 Nazi Party official. His main posts were as Gauleiter

Gauleiter

A Gauleiter was the party leader of a regional branch of the NSDAP or the head of a Gau or of a Reichsgau.-Creation and Early Usage:...

 of Weser-Ems

Weser-Ems

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 and Reichsstatthalter

Reichsstatthalter

The term Reichsstatthalter was used twice for different offices, in the imperial Hohenzollern dynasty's German Empire and the single-party Nazi Third Reich.- "Statthalter des Reiches" 1879-1918 in Alsace-Lorraine :...

 of Oldenburg

Oldenburg (state)

Oldenburg — named after its capital, the town of Oldenburg — was a state in the north of present-day Germany. Oldenburg survived from 1180 until 1918 as a county, duchy and grand duchy, and from 1918 until 1946 as a free state. It was located near the mouth of the River Weser...

/Bremen

Bremen (state)

The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen is the smallest of Germany's 16 states. A more informal name, but used in some official contexts, is Land Bremen .-Geography:...

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Early years

Röver saw service in the First World War, initially with the regular army before joining the Propaganda department of the Oberste Heeresleitung

Oberste Heeresleitung

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. He became a member of the Nazi Party in 1923. He also joined the Sturmabteilung

Sturmabteilung

The Sturmabteilung functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s...

, rising to the rank of Obergruppenführer

Obergruppenführer

Obergruppenführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that was first created in 1932 as a rank of the SA and until 1942 it was the highest SS rank inferior only to Reichsführer-SS...

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Nazi career

Röver was appointed to the post of Reichsstatthalter for Oldenburg-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

The Holocaust

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 as he personally signed the order for every Jew deported from Bremen during his life.

However in this role Röver also clashed with Hermann Goering as the Reichsmarschall

Reichsmarschall

Reichsmarschall literally in ; was the highest rank in the armed forces of Nazi Germany during World War II after the position of Supreme Commander held by Adolf Hitler....

, as Minister President of Prussia, made no secret of his desire to incorporate Bremen into Prussia. Röver however opposed the move consistently and managed to convince Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

 to decline Goering's requests.

He was something of a favourite of Martin Bormann

Martin Bormann

Martin Ludwig Bormann was a prominent Nazi official. He became head of the Party Chancellery and private secretary to Adolf Hitler...

, a fact that helped to ensure that when an arbeitsbereich ("working sphere" - an external unit of the Nazi Party) was set up in the neighbouring occupied Netherlands

Netherlands

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 most of its staff were drawn from Weser-Ems.

Death

Röver suffered a stroke

Stroke

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 in May 1942 and died soon afterwards, Paul Wegener

Paul Wegener (Gauleiter)

Paul Wegener was a German Nazi Party official.-Early career:Wegener joined the Nazi Party in 1930 and the Sturmabteilung the following year. He became Kreisleiter for Bremen in 1933 and a delegate to the Reichstag for Weser-Ems that same year...

 succeeding him as Gauleiter. His official cause of death was listed as pneumonia

Pneumonia

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. His state funeral proved a lavish event, with Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler

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 himself in attendance and Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg

' was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi Party. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart; he later held several important posts in the Nazi government...

delivering the eulogoy.