Province of Kurhessen

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Kurhessen

Province of Prussia

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1944 – 1945

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Capital

Kassel

High President

Karl Gerland

Historical era

World War II

- Established

1 April, 1944

- Disestablished

19 September, 1945

Area

- 1944

9,200 km² (3,552 sq mi)

Population

- 1944 est.

971,887

Density

105.6 /km² (273.6 /sq mi)

The Province of Kurhessen (German: Provinz Kurhessen) was a province of the Prussia within Nazi Germany from 1944-45.

Although all German states, including Prussia, had been de facto dissolved since 1933, the Nazi government formally dissolved the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau into two provinces on 1 April 1944: Kurhessen and the Province of Nassau.

The name Kurhessen comes from the former Electorate of Hesse-Kassel (1803-1866), which Prussia annexed following the Austro-Prussian War to form part of the Province of Hesse-Nassau.

Following the end of World War II, Kurhessen fell under American administration. The province was dissolved by the occupying US forces on 19 September 1945, forming part of the administrative zone of Greater Hesse (Groβ-Hessen). Just over a year later, Greater Hesse became the modern German state of Hesse.

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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)