Ernst Ludwig Leyser dating history

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Ernst Ludwig Leyser (10 September 1896 – 6 December 1973) was a German Nazi Party official and SS-Brigadeführer. He was the long-serving Deputy Gauleiter of Gau Rhenish Palatinate (later, Gau Westmark). During the Second World War, he was involved in the deportation of Jews from the Gau and the forced expulsion of residents of occupied-Lorraine. He also served as a Generalkommissar of the occupation administration in the Reichskommissariat Ukraine, where he carried out harsh Germanization policies. In the last few months of the war, he was the provincial administrator of the Prussian Province of Nassau. After the war, he underwent denazification proceedings, avoided any criminal convictions and was elected as a city councillor in Bad Bergzabern.