Magdeburg Province

Prussian Province of
Magdeburg
Situation in Prussia
Consist	1944 - 1945
Provincial capital	Magdeburg
surface	11,587.87 km² (1944)
Residents	1,303,848 (1933, based on the territorial status of 1944/45)
Population density	112.5 Ew. on 1 km² (1933)
administration	13 counties 6 city districts
Arose from	Province of Saxony
Incorporated into	Province of Saxony-Anhalt Saxony-Anhalt ( 1947 - 52 )
Today part of	Saxony-Anhalt
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The Prussian province of Magdeburg was part of 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 with the Reich Defense Districts. The province of Magdeburg with its seat in Magdeburg was formed from the northernmost administrative district of the previous province of Saxony , the middle district became the province of Halle-Merseburg .

The Reichsstatthalter for the states of Anhalt and Braunschweig and NSDAP - Gauleiter in the Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt , based in Dessau, Rudolf Jordan, was appointed as the High President of the Province of Magdeburg . The authority of the upper president was merged with the Magdeburg district government , the representative of the upper president was given the duties of the Magdeburg district president .

After the conquest of Magdeburg by US troops in April 1945, the province of Magdeburg initially remained. Gauleiter Jordan, who had fled Magdeburg, was replaced by the previous government councilor Götz von Götz , who was given the management of both the government and the senior presidium in Magdeburg. After the takeover of Magdeburg by the Soviets in July 1945, the province of Magdeburg became the 9/23. July 1945 from the provinces of Magdeburg and Halle-Merseburg as well as the state of Anhalt incorporated the newly established "Province of Saxony", which was later called "Province of Saxony-Anhalt" and was finally merged into the new state of Saxony-Anhalt .

Administrative division

The province of Magdeburg comprised the administrative district of Magdeburg which existed in the dissolved Prussian province of Saxony with the corresponding number of urban and rural districts.

City districts

Counties

Chief President

1944–1945: Rudolf Jordan