Province of Magdeburg

7 urban districts

Land Sachsen- Anhalt ( 1947-52 )

The Prussian province of Magdeburg was the Association of the German Empire from 1944 to 1945.

History

Through the " decree of the Fuhrer on the breakdown of the Province of Saxony " from 1 April 1944, the Prussian province of Saxony was disbanded on 1 July 1944 in order to align the administrative districts of the Reich Defense districts. From the northern administrative district of the former province of Saxony, Magdeburg province was formed with headquarters in Magdeburg, the middle district became the Province of Halle- Merseburg.

Go to Upper President of the Province of Magdeburg Reichsstatthalter for the countries Anhalt and Brunswick and NSDAP Gauleiter of the Gau of Magdeburg -Anhalt, based in Dessau Rudolf Jordan was ordered. The authority of the Oberpräsident was merged with the Magdeburg district government, the representative of the upper president received the tasks of the Magdeburg district president transmitted.

After the conquest of Magdeburg by U.S. troops in May 1945, the Province of Magdeburg was first made ​​. In place of Gauleiter Jordan, who had fled from Magdeburg, joined the previous Government idol of idols, which the management of both the government as well as the upper Bureau in Magdeburg was transferred. Following the acquisition of Magdeburg by the Soviets in July 1945, the Province of Magdeburg was the most 9./23. July 1945 from the provinces of Magdeburg and Halle- Merseburg and the state of Anhalt newly constructed " Province of Saxony " incorporated, which " Province of Saxony -Anhalt " was called later and was merged in the new state of Saxony- Anhalt.

Administrative divisions

The province comprised the Magdeburg was in the end resolved the Prussian province of Saxony Magdeburg Region with the appropriate number of urban and rural districts.

Urban districts

Counties

Oberpräsident

In the 19th century dissolved: Netzedistrict | South Prussia | New East Prussia | Neuschlesien | Lower Rhine | Jülich- Kleve - Berg | Prussia

1772/1822 to the 20th century: Prussia | West Prussia | Brandenburg | Pomeranian | Poznan | Saxony | Silesia | Westphalia | Rhine Province

1850/68 until the 20th century: the land of Hohenzollern | Schleswig- Holstein | Hanover | Hessen- Nassau

In the 20th century, formed Lower Silesia | Silesia | Greater Berlin | Posen - West Prussia | Halle- Merseburg | Kurhessentherme | Magdeburg | Nassau

• Prussian province
• Province of Saxony