The first use of the term "Gauleiter" by the Nazi Party was in 1925 after Adolf Hitler refounded the Nazi party following the failed Beer Hall Putsch. The name derives from the German word "Gau" and "Leiter" (meaning "leader"). The word Gau is an old term for a region of the German "Reich". The Frankish Realm and the Holy Roman Empire were subdivided into Gaue (the plural form of Gau), which corresponds roughly with the English word "shire". It is still in use today for some regions in Belgium and Switzerland, and in the modern German states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Baden-Württemberg, Saarland and Bavaria (see: Gau Legacy).