Rhineland-Hesse-Nassau Province

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The province of Rhineland-Hessen-Nassau (also written as the province of Rhineland / Hessen-Nassau ) was a short-lived administrative unit created by the French occupation forces in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

On April 30, 1945, the American occupation forces reappointed the former President of the Rhine Province , Hans Fuchs , to his old office; his office was initially Bonn . South of the old Rhine Province Americans had one on May 10, 1945 Provincial government Saar-Pfalz and Rheinhessen based in Neustadt an der Haardt formed, which then, with effect from 1 June 1945 cost the Rhine Province to the Rhenish administrative regions Trier and Koblenz extended and had been renamed to Oberregierungspräsidium Mittelrhein-Saar , whose area of ​​responsibility essentially comprised the current federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland , but still without the Nassau districts.

After the territory was handed over to the French occupying power , it formed the province of Rhineland-Hesse-Nassau (in the Nassau district of Westerburg , Montabaur , Dietz and St. Goarshausen) at the level of their military administration by decree of September 5, 1945 from the administrative districts of Trier and Koblenz including official French text Délégation Supérieure de Rhénanie, Hesse-Nassau , whereby the entire area was also referred to as province de Rhénanie (Rhineland province). The province was divided into the délégations de district (district delegations) Trève (Trier), Coblence (Koblenz) and Hesse-Nassau (Hessen-Nassau). The German administrative offices were then instructed on November 19, 1945 to set up a joint higher authority for this area with its seat in Koblenz. On November 30, 1945, Claude Hettier de Boislambert was appointed military governor, and finally, on December 2, 1945, the German chief president .

At that time, the four Nassau districts in the French zone were administered by the Koblenz administrative district. In May 1946, however, these were spun off from the Koblenz administrative district and henceforth formed the Montabaur administrative district within the same province.

Finally, on October 8, 1946, the military government decreed: The districts of Mainz, Bingen, Alzey and Worms, which form the current administrative district of Mainz, will be attached to the province of Rhineland of the Zone Française d'Occupation .

The history of the province of Rhineland-Hesse-Nassau ended with the entry into force of the Rhineland-Palatinate constitution in May 1947, which only provided for the districts of Koblenz, Montabaur, Rheinhessen and Trier and the Palatinate in Article 78 .

Chief President

The only upper president of the province was the previous district president of Koblenz and later Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate Wilhelm Boden .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Portal Rhenish History: One Rhine province, two countries and the question of regional reorganization after 1945 .
  2. ↑ In the north of the Rhine Province, when the British occupying power took on their responsibility on June 20, 1945, the authority was accordingly renamed from Oberpräsidium Fuchs to Oberpräsidium der Nord-Rheinprovinz (see footnote 1).
  3. ↑ Edgar Wagner, Get started! Have confidence! , Series of publications by the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate, p. 41.
  4. ↑ Journal officiel du Commandement en Chef Français en Allemagne (Official Gazette of the French High Command in Germany) No. 2, p. 9: Arrêté n ° 5 de l'Administrateur général organisant la délégation supérieure de Rhénanie; available from the German National Library .
  5. ↑ On the other hand, the ordinance No. 57 with regard to the creation of a Rhineland-Palatinate state ( Journal Officiel No. 57, p. 292) refers to the high presidencies of Rhineland-Hesse-Nassau and Hesse-Palatinate .
  6. ↑ Edgar Wagner, Get started! Have confidence! , Series of publications by the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate, p. 67.
  7. ↑ Journal Officiel No. 10, p. 64.
  8. ↑ Edgar Wagner, Get started! Have confidence! , Series of publications by the State Parliament of Rhineland-Palatinate, p. 67.
  9. ↑ Edgar Wagner, Get started! Have confidence! , Series of publications by the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate, p. 68.
  10. ↑ Journal Officiel No. 41, p. 345.