Free State of Anhalt

Infobox Former Subdivision
native_name = "Freistaat Anhalt"
conventional_long_name = Free State of Anhalt
common_name = Anhalt
continent = Europe
subdivision = State
nation = Germany
era = Interwar period|
year_start = 1918
date_start = 12 November
event_start=
year_end = 1945
date_end = 23 July
event_end= Abolition "(de jure)"
event2 = Abolition "(de facto)"
date_event2 = May 1932
p1 = Duchy of Anhalt
s1 = Saxony-Anhalt
flag_p1 = Flagge Herzogtum Anhalt.svg
flag_s1 = Flag of Saxony-Anhalt (state).svg|

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image_map_caption = The Free State of Anhalt (red), within Germany
national_motto=
national_anthem= Anhaltlied
capital = Dessau
latd=51|latm=50|latNS=N|longd=12|longm=15|longEW=E
stat_area1 = 2314
stat_year1 = 1925
stat_pop1 = 351045
government_type = Republic
title_leader = Prime Minister
leader1 = Wolfgang Heine
year_leader1 = 1918-1919 (first)
leader2 = Rudolf Jordan
year_leader2 = 1940-1945 (last)
footnotes = The Free State of Anhalt ( _de. Freistaat Anhalt) was formed after Joachim Ernst, Duke of Anhalt abdicated on 12 November 1918, ending the Duchy of Anhalt. It was a state of Germany during the time of the Weimar Republic. In May 1932 the Nazi Party came to power in Anhalt and, after the Nazis attained power at the federal level in 1933, Anhalt was abolished "de facto" by the federal Nazi government, becoming part of the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt.

At the end of World War II, when Germany was divided into zones of occupation, Anhalt was merged with the bulk of the Prussian Province of Saxony to form the Soviet-administered German state of Saxony-Anhalt. This state was then dissolved in 1952 but reformed in 1990 after the reunification of Germany.

Ministers-presidents of Anhalt

*1918-1919: Wolfgang Heine (SPD)
*1919-1924: Heinrich Deist (SPD)
*1924-1924: Willy Knorr (DNVP)
*1924-1932: Heinrich Deist (SPD)
*1932-1940: Alfred Freyberg (NSDAP - as "Gauleiter")
*1940-1945: Rudolf Jordan (NSDAP - as "Gauleiter")

Reichsstatthalter

Reichsstatthalter for Anhalt and Brunswick (headquarters in Dessau)
*1933-1935: Wilhelm Loeper
*1935-1937: Fritz Sauckel
*1937-1945: Rudolf Jordan

External links

* [http://www.gonschior.de/weimar/Anhalt/index.htm More statistical information (in German)]
* [http://www.andat.de/anhalt/anhalt_fr.htm Further historical details (in German)]