Province of Kurhessen
The Prussian province of Hesse-Cassel was the Association of the German Empire from 1944 to 1945.
History
Through the " adoption of the leader on the formation of provinces Electoral Hesse and Nassau " from 1 April 1944, the Prussian province of Hesse -Nassau was dissolved with effect from July 1, 1944, and their previous area on the same day the newly created Prussian provinces of the Electorate of Hesse and Nassau ( see also: Nassau ) divided province. At the same time, the district Schmalkalden, an exclave of Hesse - Nassau in the Thuringian represented by then was attached to the Prussian government district of Erfurt. Go to Upper president of the new Prussian province of Hesse-Cassel was Karl Gerland, the reigning NSDAP Gauleiter of Parteigaues " Electoral Hesse ," appointed.
Administrative divisions
The newly created on July 1, 1944 Province of Hesse-Cassel consisted of the former Region of Kassel, minus the counties Hanau, Gelnhausen and Schlüchtern, the then independent town of Hanau, which had to be ceded to the new province of Nassau, as well as the previously Hessian district Schmalkalden became part of the Prussian administrative district of Erfurt. Seat of the new Upper Presidium was the former government headquarters in Kassel, the previous government had President 1944/45, held the position of Deputy President of the Upper. On September 19, 1945 Hesse-Cassel was summarized by the adoption of the U.S. military government along with Nassau ( minus the western part Montabaur ) Oberhessen and Starkenburgring the new Country United - Hesse (today's State of Hesse ).
From the Prussian province of Hesse-Cassel was the Region of Kassel, which was identical to 1974 by the territorial in scope with the Prussian province of Hesse-Cassel after the Second World War.