State of Hanover

The State of Hanover was a country in northwest Germany. There was due to the dissolution of the former Land of Prussia in the British Zone of the Prussian province of Hanover to and was only 92 days until the establishment of the State of Lower Saxony in 1946. The country Hannover saw himself in the tradition of 1866 by the Kingdom of Prussia annexed the Kingdom of Hanover, which has also made clear in the state symbolism.

Geography

The country Hannover covered the area of the former Kingdom of Hanover without lying in the Soviet occupation zone areas under consideration of boundary corrections and territory swap during the time of the Prussian Province of Hanover. It thus comprised the vast majority of today's Lower Saxony.

History

After the Second World War, the State of Hanover was established by Regulation No 46 of the British military government from August 23, 1946 " Concerning the dissolution of the provinces of the former Land of Prussia in the British Zone and their reformation as independent states ". First Prime Minister was Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf.

But on November 23, 1946 approved the British military government at the instigation of the head unification of the country Braunschweig, the Free State of Oldenburg and Schaumburg -Lippe of the country with the State of Hanover to the new state of Lower Saxony. Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf discussed at times even more far-reaching territorial variants of Lower Saxony and Bremen, including East Westphalia- Lippe. Exceptions to this were the hitherto Brunswick eastern part of the district of Blankenburg and also belonging to Braunschweig exclave Calvörde as an official Calvörde the district of Helmstedt, who fell to the Soviet occupation zone and were integrated into the state of Saxony -Anhalt, and the hitherto Hanoverian Amt Neuhaus and the rechtselbischen Districts Bleckedes that fell to the Soviet occupation zone and were divided back to Lower Saxony until 1993.