Province of Nassau
The Prussian Province of Nassau was the Association of the German Empire from 1944 to 1945.
History
Through the " decree of the Fuhrer 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; their government districts of Wiesbaden and Kassel now formed the Prussian provinces of Nassau and Hesse-Cassel (see also province Hesse-Cassel ). However, the former administrative district of Wiesbaden were allocated to the town of Hanau, and the districts of Hanau, Gelnhausen and Schlüchtern who had been to Kassel Region belongs (now Kurhessentherme 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 Nassau Nazi politician Jakob Sprenger (NSDAP ) was appointed the same person was also Prime Minister of Hesse- Darmstadt, imperial governor of Hesse -Darmstadt and NSDAP Gauleiter of Hesse- Nassau. With the appointment as President of the Province Nassau Jakob Sprenger also incorporated all state leadership positions within the territory of the NSDAP Gau Hesse -Nassau in his person. For the new province of Nassau, no new Upper Presidium authority, in order to save costs, furnished. The President of the Province of Nassau made use of the resident in the country house in Wiesbaden, further existing authority of the former administrative district of Wiesbaden ( regional council ). Deputy Oberpräsident was the President of the Government.
In 1944, the division of the former Prussian province of Hesse -Nassau in the new provinces Nassau and Hesse-Cassel primarily served the purpose of the organization of the Prussian administrative units on the territory of Hesse fully adapt to the structure of the Reich Defense districts. The new Nassau Province and the State of Hesse -Darmstadt corresponded to the Reich Defense district Rhein- Main, who in turn was identical to the NSDAP Parteigau Hesse -Nassau.
In addition to Adolf Hitler, Martin Bormann, Hans Heinrich Lammers and Jacob Sprenger was primarily a native of Wiesbaden lawyer and Nazi politician Wilhelm Stuckart, at that time Secretary of State in the Ministry of the Interior and under the last Reich President Karl Dönitz Minister of the Interior, to the formation of the Province Nassau interested and playing a leading role.
Administrative divisions
Seat of the President of the Province of Upper Nassau was the government headquarters in Wiesbaden, whose President was 1944/45, Deputy President of the Upper Province Nassau.
In March and April 1945, the territory of the province of Nassau U.S. armed forces was occupied. The Nassau province was converted by the military government of the United States again in the administrative district of Wiesbaden, which had been founded with the elimination of the governance of the empire (and thus also of Prussia ). The new administrative district of Wiesbaden was initially identical in terms of its territorial scope to the existing July 1944 to May 1945 the Prussian province of Nassau. President of the Government appointed the American military government on 4 May 1945 the creators of German broadcasting Hans Bredow.
In July 1945, the district Wiesbaden was divided by the now permanently fixed zone boundary between U.S. and French occupation zone. Thus, the western counties Oberwesterwald, St. Goar, lower Lahn and Unterwesterwald were separated from the administrative district of Wiesbaden.
The belonging to the American zone remaining main part of the governmental district was merged on September 19, 1945 adoption of the American military government, together with the Prussian Hesse-Cassel and Hesse provinces of Upper Hesse and Starkenburgring the new Country United - Hesse (today's State of Hesse ). The four members of the French occupation zone counties Oberwesterwald, St. Goar, lower Lahn and Unterwesterwald in 1946 united by the French military government with the southern Rhine province, the Palatinate and the previously Hessian province Rheinhessen to the new state of Rhineland -Palatinate.
Direct administrative successor entity of the 1944/45, the existing Prussian Province of Nassau were therefore in the postwar period, the administrative districts of Wiesbaden and Montabaur, which in a fictional territorial addition ( minus the Wiesbaden AKK - Districts, see also Legal Rhenish districts of Mainz or AKK conflict) exactly would result in the area of the existing 1944/45, the Prussian Province of Nassau; Also from 1945 to 1953 the District Local Government Association, Wiesbaden, founded in 1886. He was convicted by the Intermediate Law of the Land Hesse on May 7, 1953 in the State Welfare Association Hesse. The government districts of Wiesbaden and Montabaur were released in 1968 or 1969 in the wake of territorial reforms of the states of Hesse and Rhineland -Palatinate and new larger administrative units added to ( the then government districts of Darmstadt and Koblenz ).
Others
The province of Nassau, whose predecessor and successor ( district Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden District Association of Local Authorities ) to 1953 were carriers of the Nassau Savings Bank ( Naspa ) and was founded in 1922 social housing company Nassauische homestead.