Halle-Merseburg province

Prussian province
Halle-Merseburg

flag	coat of arms
Situation in Prussia
Consist	1944 - 1945
Provincial capital	Merseburg
surface	10,217.26 km² (1944)
Residents	1,486,274 (1933, based on the territorial status of 1944/45)
Population density	145.5 Ew. on 1 km² (1933)
administration	15 counties 7 city districts
License Plate	IN THE
Arose from	Province of Saxony
Incorporated into	Province of Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt ( 1947 - 52 )
Today part of	Saxony-Anhalt , Saxony (Torgau), Brandenburg (Herzberg)
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The Prussian province of Halle-Merseburg existed in the Association of the German Reich from 1944 to 1945.

Greater German Reich (Länder and Gaue) 1944

history

With the “Leader's Decree on the Subdivision of the Province of Saxony” of April 1, 1944, the Prussian Province of Saxony was dissolved on July 1, 1944, in order to align the administrative districts in Central Germany with the Reich Defense Districts. The province of Halle-Merseburg was formed from the administrative district of Merseburg of the previous province of Saxony, while the administrative district of Magdeburg became the province of Magdeburg . The administrative district of Erfurt was subordinated to the Reich governor in Thuringia .

The Gauleiter of the NSDAP -Gaus Halle-Merseburg, Joachim Albrecht Eggeling , was appointed as the high president of the newly formed Halle-Merseburg province .

After the end of the war , the province of Halle-Merseburg was united in July 1945 at the behest of the Soviet Military Administration (SMAD) with the province of Magdeburg and the state of Anhalt to form the new "Province of Saxony", which was renamed "Province of Saxony-Anhalt" in 1946 and finally in 1947 State of Saxony-Anhalt rose.

Administrative division

The province of Halle-Merseburg comprised the previous administrative district of Merseburg with the corresponding number of urban and rural districts.

The city of Merseburg was designated as the seat of the province .

City districts

1. Eisleben
2. Hall a. S.
3. Merseburg
4. Naumburg a. S.
5. Weissenfels
6. Lutherstadt Wittenberg
7. Time

Counties

1. Bitterfeld
2. Delitzsch
3. Eckartsberga [seat: Kölleda]
4. Liebenwerda [seat: Bad Liebenwerda]
5. Mansfeld Mountain District [seat: Mansfeld]
6. Mansfelder Seekreis [seat: Eisleben]
7. Merseburg
8. Querfurt
9. Saalkreis [seat: Halle a. S.]
10. Sangerhausen
11. Schweinitz [seat: Herzberg (Elster)]
12. Torgau
13. Weissenfels
14. Wittenberg
15. Time

Chief President

• 1944–1945: Joachim Albrecht Eggeling