Province of Hanover

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Hannover Hanover Province of Prussia ← 1868 – 1946 → Flag Coat of arms The Province of Hanover (red), within the Kingdom of Prussia, within the German Empire Capital Hanover 52°22′N, 9°43′E History  - Established 1868  - Disestablished 1946 Area  - 1939 38,705 km² (14,944 sq mi) Population  - 1939 est. 3,537,390       Density 91.4 /km²  (236.7 /sq mi) Political Subdivisions Aurich Hanover Hildesheim Lüneburg Osnabrück Stade

The Province of Hanover (German: Provinz Hannover) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1868 to 1946.

During the Austro-Prussian War, the Kingdom of Hanover had attempted to maintain a neutral position, along with some other member states of the German Confederation. After Hanover voted in favour of mobilising confederation troops against Prussia on 14 June 1866, Prussia saw this as a just cause for declaring war; the Kingdom of Hanover was soon dissolved and annexed by Prussia. The private wealth of the dethroned House of Hanover was then used by Otto von Bismarck to finance his continuing efforts against Ludwig II of Bavaria.

In 1946, the British military administration made the Province of Hanover the main part of the Bundesland of Lower Saxony - along with the states of Oldenburg, Brunswick, and Schaumburg-Lippe – with the city of Hanover as the capital of this new state.

[edit] Presidents of the Province of Hanover

• Otto Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode 1867-1873
• Botho Wend August Graf zu Eulenburg 1873-1878
• Adolf Hilmar von Leipziger 1878-1888
• Rudolf von Bennigsen 1888-1897
• Konstantin Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode 1898-1902
• Richard von Wentzel 1902-1914
• Ludwig Hubert von Windheim 1914-1917
• Ernst von Richter (DVP) 1917-1920
• Gustav Noske (SPD) 1920-1933
• Viktor Lutze (NSDAP) 1933-1941
• Hartmann Lauterbacher (NSDAP) 1941-1945
• Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf (SPD) 1946

v • d • e Territories and Provinces of Prussia (1525–1947) Before 1701 Duchy of Prussia · Margraviate of Brandenburg Farther Pomerania · Cleves (1614) · Mark · Ravensberg Minden (1648) · Halberstadt · Magdeburg Colonies of Brandenburg-Prussia: Groß Friedrichsburg · Arguin · Crab Island · Tertholen After 1701 Neuchâtel · Minden-Ravensberg · Western Pomerania · East Frisia · Silesia (1740) · Glatz (1763) · Polish Prussia (1772), Netze District (1772) · South Prussia (1793) · New East Prussia, New Silesia (1795) Reorder after 1814–15 East Prussia & West Prussia (1824–78 joined to Province of Prussia) · Brandenburg · Pomerania · Grand Duchy of Posen (in 1848 transformed to Province of Posen) · Saxony · Silesia · Westphalia · Rhine Province (1822, Lower Rhine & Jülich-Cleves-Berg) · Hohenzollern (1850) · Schleswig-Holstein, Hanover, Hesse-Nassau (1866–68) Territorial reforms after 1918 Lower Silesia, Upper Silesia (1919) · Greater Berlin (1920) · Posen-West Prussia (1922) Halle-Merseburg, Magdeburg, Kurhessen, Nassau (1944)