request and receive permission for the deportation of the Jewish population after Allied air raids on the city in September 1941. He died in Hamburg in 1969. The Neuengamme concentration camp was located in the Gau Hamburg. Of the 106,000 prisoners that were sent to the camp 55,000 perished. References External links Illustrated list of Gauleiter Hamburg 1925 establishments in Germany 1945 disestablishments in Germany History of Hamburg