Province of Hanover

Province of Hanover

Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name = "Hannover"
conventional_long_name = Hanover
common_name = Hanover
subdivision = Province
nation= Prussia
year_start =1868
event_start = Established
year_end =1946
p1 = Kingdom of Hanover
flag_p1 = Kgr hannover flagge.jpg
s1 = Lower Saxony
flag_s1 = Flag of Lower Saxony.svg




symbol_type = Coat of arms
symbol_type_article =


image_map_caption = The Province of Hanover (red), within the Kingdom of Prussia, within the German Empire
capital = Hanover
latd=52 |latm=22 |latNS=N |longd=9 |longm=43 |longEW=E
stat_area1 = 38705
stat_year1 = 1939
stat_pop1=3537390
political_subdiv= Aurich Hanover Hildesheim Lüneburg Osnabrück Stade The Province of Hanover ( _de. Provinz Hannover) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1868 to 1946.

During the Austro-Prussian War, the Kingdom of Hanover had attempted to maintain a neutral position, along with some other member states of the German Confederation. After Hanover voted in favour of mobilising confederation troops against Prussia on 14 June 1866, Prussia saw this as a just cause for declaring war; the Kingdom of Hanover was soon dissolved and annexed by Prussia. The private wealth of the dethroned House of Hanover was then used by Otto von Bismarck to finance his continuing efforts against Ludwig II of Bavaria.

In 1946, the British military administration made the Province of Hanover the main part of the Bundesland of Lower Saxony - along with the states of Oldenburg, Brunswick, and Schaumburg-Lippe – with the city of Hanover as the capital of this new state.

Presidents of the Province of Hanover

*Otto Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode 1867-1873
*Botho Wend August Graf zu Eulenburg 1873-1878
*Adolf Hilmar von Leipziger 1878-1888
*Rudolf von Bennigsen 1888-1897
*Konstantin Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode 1898-1902
*Richard von Wentzel 1902-1914
*Ludwig Hubert von Windheim 1914-1917
*Ernst von Richter (DVP) 1917-1920
*Gustav Noske (SPD) 1920-1933
*Viktor Lutze (NSDAP) 1933-1941
*Hartmann Lauterbacher (NSDAP) 1941-1945
*Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf (SPD) 1946


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