Province of Hesse
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| Province of Prussia Gau of Nazi Germany |
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| Capital | Kassel | |||
| Government | Gau | |||
| Gauleiter | Karl Gerland | |||
| Historical era | World War II | |||
| - Established | 1 April, 1944 | |||
| - Disestablished | 19 September, 1945 | |||
| Area | ||||
| - 1944 | 9,200 km2 3,552 sq mi |
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| Population | ||||
| - 1944 est. | 971,887 | |||
| Density | 105.6 /km² 273.6 /sq mi |
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Electorate Hesse (German: Kurhessen) was a Gau of the NSDAP and a province of Prussia from 1944-1945.
Although all German states (including Prussia) had been de facto dissolved since 1933, and most , the Nazi goverment formally dissolved the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau into two Gaue on 1 April 1944: Electoral Hesse and the province of Nassau.
The name comes from the former Electorate of Hesse-Kassel (1803-1866), which Prussia annexed following the Austro-Prussian War to form part of the province of Hesse-Nassau.
Following the end of World War II, Electoral Hesse fell under American administration. The province of Electoral Hesse was dissolved by the occupying US forces on 19 September 1945, forming part of the administrative zone of Greater Hesse (Groβ-Hessen). Just over a year later, Greater Hesse became the modern German state of Hesse.
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Territories and Provinces of Prussia (1525 – 1947)
Before 1701: Prussia | Brandenburg | Farther Pomerania | Magdeburg | Halberstadt | Cleves | Mark | Ravensberg | Minden |
Colonies of Brandenburg-Prussia: Groß Friedrichsburg | Arguin | Crab Island | Tertholen
After 1701: Neuchâtel | Hither Pomerania | East Frisia | Silesia (1740) | Glatz (1763) | Polish Prussia, Netze District (1772) |
South Prussia (1793) | New East Prussia, New Silesia (1795)
Reorder after 1814–5: East Prussia & West Prussia (1824–78 joined to Prussia) | Brandenburg | Pomerania | Posen | Saxony | Silesia | Westphalia | Rhine Province (1822, Lower Rhine & Jülich-Cleves-Berg) | Hohenzollern (1850, Hohenzollern-Hechingen & Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen) | Schleswig-Holstein, Hanover, Hesse-Nassau (1866–8)
Later administrational reforms: Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia (1919) | Greater Berlin, West Prussia (district) (1920) | Posen-West Prussia (1922) |
Halle-Merseburg, Magdeburg, Electoral Hesse, Nassau (1944)
