- Province of Nassau
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Nassau Province of Prussia ← 1944–1945 → Coat of arms of Hesse
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Zo wijd de wereld strektCapital Wiesbaden High President Jakob Sprenger Historical era World War II - Established 1 April 1944 - Disestablished 19 September 1945 - State of Hesse 1 December 1946 The Province of Nassau (German: Provinz Nassau) was a province of Prussia from 1944-1945.
Although all German states (including Prussia) had been de facto dissolved since 1933, the Nazi government formally dissolved the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau into two provinces on 1 April 1944, Kurhessen and the province of Nassau.
The name comes from the former Duchy of Nassau (1806-1866), which Prussia annexed following the Austro-Prussian War to form part of the province of Hesse-Nassau.
Following the end of World War II, the province of Nassau fell under American administration. The province of Nassau was dissolved by the occupying US forces on 19 September 1945, forming part of the administrative zone of Greater Hesse. Just over a year later, Greater Hesse became the modern German state of Hesse. Small parts of the province of Nassau also became part of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Territories and provinces of Prussia (1525–1947) Before 1701 Duchy of Prussia · Margraviate of Brandenburg · Cleves / Mark / Ravensberg (1614) · Farther Pomerania / Minden / Halberstadt (1648) · Lauenburg–Bütow / Draheim (1657) · Magdeburg (1680) · Colonies (Groß Friedrichsburg · Arguin)After 1701 Neuchâtel (1707) · Guelders (1713) · Minden-Ravensberg (1719) · Western Pomerania (1720, 1815) · Silesia / Glatz (1742) · East Frisia (1744) · East / West Prussia (1772-73) · South Prussia (1793) · New East Prussia / New Silesia (1795)Post-Congress of
Vienna (1814–15)Brandenburg · Pomerania · Grand Duchy of Posen1 · Saxony · Silesia · Westphalia · Rhine Province2 (1822) · Province of Prussia (1824–78) · Hohenzollern (1850) · Schleswig-Holstein / Hanover / Hesse-Nassau (1866–68)Territorial reforms
after 1918Lower / Upper Silesia (1919) · Greater Berlin (1920) · Posen-West Prussia (1922) ·
Halle-Merseburg / Magdeburg / Kurhessen / Nassau (1944)Categories:- States and territories established in 1944
- States and territories disestablished in 1945
- Provinces of Prussia
- History of Hesse
- History of Rhineland-Palatinate
- Hesse geography stubs
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