North Rhine
The province of North Rhine (also North Rhine Province or North Rhine Province ) was a short-lived administrative unit on the territory of the British occupation zone of Germany, which emerged from the northern part of the Rhine Province after the Second World War .
It was formed on June 5, 1945 on the basis of the Berlin Declaration and the resulting determination of zones of occupation by the victorious powers of World War II from the administrative districts of Aachen , Düsseldorf and Cologne in the Prussian Rhine Province . The southern part of the Rhine Province, consisting of the administrative districts of Koblenz and Trier , became part of the French occupation zone on June 5, 1945 . The division of the Rhineland , which had been united under the Prussian crown by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 , into areas with different governments and administrations - from summer 1946 into the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate - was thus mapped out. The province of North Rhine existed until October 20, 1946. On that day, the government of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, formed in August 1946, repealed the high presidencies of North Rhine and Westphalia on the instructions of the British occupying forces.
The seat of the High Presidium was initially Bonn , from October 1945 Düsseldorf ( Landeshaus Düsseldorf ). The senior presidents were Johannes Fuchs (center, until October 1945) and the later Federal Minister of the Interior Robert Lehr (CDU, October 1945 to August 1946). They were subject to occupational instructions from John Ashworth Barraclough , the British military governor of the province of North Rhine.
Some of the provincial tasks and facilities (such as the state clinics) later became the responsibility of the Rhineland Regional Association.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Abolition of the senior presidiums in Düsseldorf and Münster , website in the Internet portal "Westphalian History", accessed on November 17, 2013