Province of Halle-Merseburg
Province of Halle-Merseburg Provinz Halle-Merseburg (German) | |||||||||
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Province of Prussia | |||||||||
1944–1945 | |||||||||
The Province of Halle-Merseburg in 1944. | |||||||||
Capital | Merseburg | ||||||||
Area | |||||||||
• 1933a | 10,217.26 km2 (3,944.91 sq mi) | ||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 1933a | 1.486.274 | ||||||||
Government | |||||||||
• Type | Province | ||||||||
High President | |||||||||
• 1944–1945 | Joachim A. Eggeling | ||||||||
Historical era | World War II | ||||||||
• Established | 1 July 1944 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 23 July 1945 | ||||||||
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a. Within 1944/45 borders. |
The Province of Halle-Merseburg (German: Provinz Halle-Merseburg) was a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1944 to 1945. The provincial capital was the city Merseburg.
Halle-Merseburg was created on 1 July 1944, out of Regierungsbezirk Merseburg, an administrative region from the former Province of Saxony. The governor of the new province was Joachim Albrecht Eggeling, the Gauleiter of the Nazi Gau Halle-Merseburg. In 1945, the Province of Halle-Merseburg was dissolved into a recreated Province of Saxony.
Districts in 1945
Urban districts
- Eisleben
- Halle
- Merseburg
- Naumburg
- Weißenfels
- Lutherstadt Wittenberg
- Zeitz
Rural districts
- Bitterfeld
- Delitzsch
- Eckartsberga (seat: Kölleda)
- Liebenwerda (seat: Bad Liebenwerda)
- Mansfelder Gebirgskreis (seat: Mansfeld)
- Mansfelder Seekreis (seat: Eisleben)
- Merseburg
- Querfurt
- Saalkreis (seat: Halle)
- Sangerhausen
- Schweinitz (seat: Herzberg)
- Torgau
- Weißenfels
- Wittenberg
- Zeitz
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Territories and provinces of Prussia (1525–1947)
- Duchy of Prussia
- Margraviate of Brandenburg
- Cleves / Mark / Ravensberg (1614)
- Farther Pomerania / Minden / Halberstadt (1648)
- Lauenburg–Bütow / Draheim (1657)
- Magdeburg (1680)
- Colonies
- Gold Coast
- Arguin
- St. Thomas
- Neuchâtel (1707)
- Guelders (1713)
- Minden-Ravensberg (1719)
- Western Pomerania (1720 / 1815)
- Silesia / Glatz (1742)
- East Frisia (1744)
- East / West Prussia (1772–73)
- South Prussia (1793)
- New East Prussia / New Silesia (1795)
Post-Congress of
Vienna (1814–15)
Vienna (1814–15)
- Brandenburg
- Principality of Neuchâtel (1814–1848)
- Pomerania
- Grand Duchy of Posen1
- Saxony
- Silesia
- Westphalia
- Rhine Province2 (1822)
- Province of Prussia (1824–1878)
- Hohenzollern (1850)
- Schleswig-Holstein / Hanover / Hesse-Nassau (1866–68)
Territorial reforms
after 1918
after 1918
- Lower / Upper Silesia (1919)
- Greater Berlin (1920)
- Posen-West Prussia (1922)
- Halle-Merseburg / Magdeburg / Kurhessen / Nassau (1944)