Josef Grohé

Josef Grohé (6 November 1902 - 3 January 1988), German Nazi Party official, was born in Gemünden im Hunsrück. He joined the Nazi Party in 1922, and was co-founder of the Nazi organisation in Cologne and founder of its newspaper, the "Westdeutscher Beobachter". In 1928 he was appointed Gauleiter (regional party leader) of the Rhineland region, and in 1932 he was elected to both the Reichstag and the Prussian Staatsrat (State Council). In late 1944, in addition to these posts, he was made head of the civil administration in German-occupied Belgium and northern France, although these areas were already been overrun by the Allies. He was arrested by the British occupation authorities in Cologne in 1945 and imprisoned until 1950.

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* Ernst Klee, "Das Personen-lexikon zum Dritten Reich" (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt-am-Main, 2005), 202