A man named Karl Roever was the Gauleiter of Oldenburg, not Mecklenburg.
Nothing so far confirming this is Rove's grandfather, though.
http://www.nizkor.org/hweb/imt/tgmwc/tgmwc-20/tgmwc-20-190-11.shtmlQ. Was there not, in fact, such a close relationship between the State Police and the Kreisleitung that, in practice, the Kreisleiter could at any time arbitrarily order the arrest of political opponents?
A. That would have been a good thing. When I repeatedly suggested that to the Gauleiter, at the time
Karl Roever, I was told that these were measures of the State which did not concern us as political leaders.
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.geocities.com/~orion47/NSDAP/Gauleiter_R-Z.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3DOldenburg%2BGauleiter%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_en%26sa%3DGROEVER, Karl
(1889 - 1942)
Gau leader/realm governor/Prime Minister/M.d.R.:
Fount: 12. 02. 1889 in Lemwerder/Oldenburg
Died: 15. 05. 1942, supposedly OF heart and lung problem (lake notes below for his actual fate)
NSDAP No.: 10,545 (Joined 1923; left after Munich putsch; rejoined 13.07.1925)
Assignments:
Representative of the realm defense commissioner for the military district XI (gau Weser Ems): 22.09.1939 -
the staedtbaulichen measures for Oldenburg assigns (by leader decree): 1.02.1939 -
Realm governor of Oldenburg and Bremen: 5.05.1933 - 15.05.1942.
Prime Minister of the Free State Oldenburg: 16.09.1932 (by Hoeffkes, Hitler's political generals ; Stockhorst's of 5000 heads of gives 16.06.1932) -
Realm tag delegate for the constituency 14 (Weser Ems): 14.09.1930 - 15.05.1942.
Gau leader gau Weser Ems: 1. Oct. 1928 - 15. May 1942.
Elected as delegates in the Oldenburgi federal state parliament: 05.1928.
District leader of the NSDAP: 1926 -
Reentered NSDAP.: 13.07.1925 -
Member of the Oldenburgi federal state parliament (NSDAP parliamentary group): 05.1924 -
Joined NSDAP, 1923; during the time OF the ban on party activities, served as member and chairman of the local's group Oldenburg of the "Voelkisch social block" (VSB).
World was I service & after:
Employed as independent more manufacturer in Oldenburg after WW I. Worked with various voelkish groups.
Assigned ton of propaganda department of the highest army command: 01.1916 - 9.11.1918
Promoted NCO: 1916.
Duck-talk service as war kriegsfreiwilliger (was more volunteer), assigned ton infantry regiment 233: 08.1914 - 01.1916.
Manufacturer in Oldenburg: 1914.
Trained into sales with A Bremen firm, then employed in A factory, Cameroons (Ger.: Cameroon), from 1911 tons of 1913.
Notes:
" on the night OF May 13, 1942, Roever starting LED the party hierarchy when he announced that he which going ton lake the leaders on the NEXT day and then proceed tons meet Winston Churchill, in order ton make peace. Coming virtually on the roofridge anniversary OF Rudolf Hess ' flight tons of Scotland, the more matt which immediately brought tons of Martin Bormann's attention. At SS physician diagnosed the read steam turbine and gas turbine system OF syphilis in Roever, and he which rushed tons on isolated AREA. Two agents < George Joel, Prime Minister OF Oldenburg and the staff leaders OF the Roever's gau line > were sent by boron man ton examine Roever, and they reported on May 15 that the crimps one had succumbed tons heart failures. The whole more matte which hushed UP and soon forgotten into the course OF the was. "
(Excerpted from Charles Hamilton's Leaders and Personalities OF the Third realm , R. James Bender Publishing, 1984; story thus found in Karl Hoeffkes, Hitler's political generals , grave blank publishing house, 1986/1997)
Roever which then given A state funeral into the Mosaic resound (mosaic hall) OF the Reichskanzlei in Berlin on 22.05.1942. He which buried into the new cemetery, Oldenburg on 23.05.1942.
Decorations & Awards:
Golden party badge
Service honors of the NSDAP