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Provinces of Prussia
Brandenburg
11 Jun 1157 Mark Brandenburg
1356 Area administered as Kurmark and Neumark
18 Jun 1618 United with the Duchy of Prussia
27 Oct 1806 - 17 Sep 1807 Occupied by France
30 Apr 1815 Kurmark and Neumark united as Provinz Brandenburg
01 Aug 1947 Becomes a state of Germany
Civil Governor for the land between the Oder and Elbe
1813 - 1814 Johann August Sack ..................... 1764-1831
Oberpräsidenten
30 Apr 1815 - 1824 Georg Friedrich Christian von Heydebeck 1765-1828
1824 - 1842 Magnus Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz .... 1773-1838
1842 - 1848 August Friedrich Wilhelm Werner
von Meding ............................ 1792-1871
1848 - 1849 Erasmus Robert Freiherr von Patow ...... 1804-1890
1849 - 1850 August Hermann Klemmens,
Freiherr von Wolf Metternich .......... 1803-1872
1850 - 1862 Eduard Heinerich von Flottwell ......... 1786-1865
1862 Werner Rudolf Erdmann von Selchow ...... 1806-1884
1862 - 1879 Gustav Wilhelm von Jagow ............... 1813-1879
1879 - 1899 Heinrich Karl Julius von Achenbach ..... 1829-1899
1899 - 1905 Theobald von Bethmann-Holweg ........... 1856-1921
1905 - 1909 August Klemmens Bodo Paul Wilhelm
von Trott zu Soltz .................... 1855-1938
1909 - 1910 Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell .......... 1855-1931
(1st Time)
1910 - 1914 Alfred Anton Robert von Konrad ......... 1852-1914
1914 - 1918 Rudolf Wilhelm Graf von der Schulenburg 1855-1931
1918 - 1919 Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell (2nd Time)
Apr 1919 - 25 Mar 1933 Adolf Meier ............................ 1871-1863
25 Mar 1933 - 07 Aug 1936 Wilhelm Paul Richard Kube .............. 1887-1943 NSDAP
07 Aug 1936 - 21 Apr 1945 Emil Stürtz ............................ 1892-1945 NSDAP
President of the Provisional government
04 Jul 1945 - 20 Dec 1946 Karl Steinhoff ......................... 1892-1981 SPD
Groß-Berlin (Greater Berlin)
18 century 1935-1954
01 Oct 1920 Greater Berlin separated from Brandenburg
17 May 1945 Stadt Berlin under allied occupation
20 Oct 1946 Renamed Greater Berlin
30 Nov 1948 Separate administrations for East and West sectors
07 Oct 1949 East Berlin declared capital of the D.D.R
03 Oct 1990 United as a federal state of Germany
City Presidents
1726 - 01 Nov 1733 Simon Victor Hünicke
1735 - 1746 Heinrich Adam von Neuendorf ............ 1690-1752
1746 - 28 Dec 1770 Karl David Kircheisen .................. 1704-1770
1771 - 1791 Johann Albrecht Philippi ............... 1721-1791
09 Nov 1791 - 24 Oct 1794 Johann Friedrich von Eisenhart ......... 1733-1804
24 Oct 1794 - 06 Mar 1804 Johann Philipp Eisenberg ............... 1756-1804
22 May 1804 - 1808 Johann Stephan Gottfried Büsching ...... 1761-1833
Oberbürgermeister
08 May 1809 - 08 Jun 1813 Carl Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach ..... 1757-1813
Feb 1814 - Mar 1832 Johan Stephan Gottfried Büsching
Mar 1832 - 06 Oct 1834 Friedrich Wilhelm Leopold
von Bärensprung ....................... 1779-1841
06 Oct 1834 - 20 Mar 1848 Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick (1st Time) . 1797-1882
20 Mar 1848 - 23 Jan 1851 Franz Christian Naunyn ................. 1799-1860
23 Jan 1851 - 31 Dec 1862 Heinrich Wilhelm Krausnick (2nd Time)
12 Jan 1863 - 01 Apr 1872 Karl Theodor Seydel .................... 1812-1873
01 Apr 1872 - Mar 1878 Arthur Hobrecht ........................ 1824-1812
21 Nov 1878 - 26 May 1892 Maximilian von Forckenbach ............. 1821-1892
26 May 1892 - 30 Sep 1898 Robert Zelle ........................... 1829-1901
01 Oct 1898 - 31 Aug 1912 Martin Kischner ........................ 1842-1912
01 Sep 1912 - 25 Nov 1920 Adolf Wermuth .......................... 1855-1927
20 Jan 1921 - 07 Nov 1929 Gustav August Johann Heinrich Böss ..... 1873-1946
07 Nov 1929 - 14 Apr 1931 Otto Wilhelm Arthur Scholtz ............ 1871-1935
(acting)
14 Apr 1931 - 18 Dec 1935 Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Sahm ........ 1877-1939
19 Dec 1935 - 31 Mar 1937 Oskar Maretzky ......................... 1881-1945 NSDAP
(acting)
01 Apr 1937 - Jul 1940 Julius Lippert ......................... 1895-1956 NSDAP
Jul 1940 - 02 May 1945 Ludwig Steeg ........................... 1894-1945 NSDAP
17 May 1945 - 10 Dec 1946 Arthur Werner .......................... 1877-1967
10 Dec 1946 - 11 Jun 1947 Otto Ostrowski ......................... 1883-1963 SPD
11 Jun 1947 - 07 Dec 1948 Louise Dorothea Schroeder .............. 1887-1957 SPD
14 Aug - 30 Nov 1948 Ferdinand Friedensburg ................. 1886-1971 CDU
(acting for Schroeder)
Hannover
20 Sep 1866 Kingdom of Hannover annexed by Prussia
23 Aug 1946 Becomes as state
09 Dec 1946 Part of Niedersachsen
Oberpräsidenten
1866 - 1873 Otto Graf zu Stolburg-Wernigerode ...... 1837-1896
1873 Karl Heinrich von Boetticher ........... 1833-1907
1873 - 1878 Botho Wend August Graf von Eulenburg ... 1831-1912
1878 - 1888 Adolf Hilmer von Leipziger ............. 1825-1891
1888 - 1897 Rudolf von Bennigsten .................. 1824-1902
1897 - 1902 Konstantin Graf zu Stolburg-Wernigerode 1843-1905
1902 - 1914 Richard von Wentzel .................... 1850-1916
1914 - 1917 Ludwig Hubert von Windheim ............. 1857-1935
01 May 1917 - 01 Sep 1920 Ernst von Richter ...................... 1862-1935
01 Sep 1920 - 25 Mar 1933 Gustav Noske ........................... 1868-1946
1933 Friedrich Karl Ludwig von Velsen ....... 1871-1953
Mar 1933 - 01 Apr 1941 Viktor Lutze ........................... 1890-1943
01 Apr 1941 - 11 Apr 1945 Hartmann Lauterbacher .................. 1909-1988
12 Jul 1945 - 21 Aug 1946 August Josef Hagemann .................. 1875-1950 CDU
Hessen-Nassau
07 Dec 1868 Province of Hessen-Nassau
1919 - 1923 Formation of Freistaat Flaschenhals (Bottleneck Free State),
an allied quasi-state
01 Jul 1944 Province formally abolished, divided into Kurhessen
and Nassau provinces
19 Sep 1945 Part of Hessen
Oberpräsidenten
20 Sep 1866 - 1871 Eduard von Moeller
1871 - 1872 .....
1872 - 1875 Ludwig Karl Christoph von Bodelschwingh
1876 - 1881 Karl Ludwig August Freiherr von Ende
1881 - 1892 Botho Wend August Graf zu Eulenburg .... 1831-1912
1892 - 1898 Eduard Ludwig Karl Magdeburg
1898 - 1903 Robert Graf von Zedtlitz-Trützschler
01 Sep 1903 - 1907 Hubert Ludwig von Windheim
1907 - 1917 Wilhelm Hengstenburg
1917 - 1919 August Clemens Bodo Paul Wilhelm
von Trott zo Solz ..................... 1855-1938
1919 - 1930 Rudolf Schwander
1930 - Jul 1932 August Haas
1932 - 1933 Ernst von Hülsen
07 Jun 1933 - 08 Sep 1943 Philipp, Prinz und Landgraf von Hessen . 1896-1980
08 Sep 1943 - 30 Jun 1944 Ernst Beckmann ......................... 1893-1957
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Freistaat Flaschenhals (Free State of thr Bottle Neck)
13 Dec 1918 - 1930 Allied occupation of the Rhineland
10 Jan 1919 - 23 Feb 1923 Freistaat Flaschenhals (Bottleneck Free State),
an allied quasi-state between the French and U.S zones
23 Feb 1923 State dissolved
President of Freistaat Flaschenhals
10 Jan 1919 - 25 Feb 1923 Edmund Anton Pnischenk ................. 18..-1954
Kurhessen
01 Jul 1944 Kurhessen provinz (former territory of Hesse-Kassel)
19 Sep 1945 Part of Hessen
Oberpräsident
01 Jul 1944 - 10 Apr 1945 Karl Gerland ........................... 1905-1945
10 Apr - 10 May 1945 ....
10 May - 19 Sep 1945 Friedrich Hoch ......................... 1896-1984 SPD
(acting)
Kurmark
1356 Kurmark (most of the terrtory of the Margravate of Brandenburg)
1806 - 1813 French occupation
1816 To the province of Brandenburg
Presidents for War and the Domain Chamber
1701 - 1708 .....
1708 - 1723 Friedrich von Goerne ................... 1670-1743
1723 - 1731 Ehrenreich Bogislaw von Kreutz ......... 1670-1733
1727 - 1747 Franz Wilhelm von Happe ................ 1684-1760
1747 - 1762 August Friedrich von Boden ............. 1682-1762
1763 - 1769 Valentin von Massow .................... 1712-1775
1769 - 1779 Friedrich Wilhelm von Derschau ......... 1723-1779
1779 - 1781 Friedrich George von Michaelis
1781 - 1786 Hans Ernst Dietrich von Werder ......... 1740-1800
(1st Time)
1786 - 1789 Karl Maximilian Ferdinand von Mauschwitz 1738-1792
1789 - 1795 Otto Karl Friedrich von Voss ........... 1755-1823
(1st Time)
1795 - 1800 Hans Ernst Dietrich von Werder
(2nd Time)
1800 - 1803 Otto Karl Friedrich von Voss
(2nd Time)
1803 - 1807 Ferdinand Rudolph Friedrich von Angern . 1757-1826
01 Aug 1807 - 06 Dec 1808 Johann Adolf von Lützow ................ 1748-1819
(Military governor)
Oberpräsident fur Pommern, Kurmark, Neumark und Magdeburg
06 Dec 1808 - 1810 Johann August Sack ..................... 1764-1831
Regierungspräsident in Potsdamm
1810 - 25 May 1815 Magnus Friedrich Graf von Bassewitz
Kammerpräsidenten Kurmark
Jan 1723 - 28 Jan 1725 Adam Otto von Viereck .................. 1684-1758
Jan 1725 - Jul 1727 Simon Viktor von Hünicke
31 Jul 1725 - 1732 Franz Wilhelm von Happe
1732 - 1748 Matthias Konrad von der Osten .......... 1691-1748
1748 - 27 May 1763 Ernst Ludwig von der Gröben ............ 1703-1773
27 May 1763 - Jun 1766 Julius August Friedrich von der Horst .. 1723-1791
1766 - 1782 Karl Ludwig von Siegroth
1782 - 05 Dec 1786 Karl Maximilian Ferdinand von Mauschwitz
05 Dec 1786 - Mar 1795 Otto Friedrich Karl von Voss
Mar - 31 Dec 1795 Friedrich Franz von Mülheim
01 Jan 1796 - 13 Feb 1809 Leopold von Gerlach .................... 1757-1813
14 Feb 1809 - 30 Mar 1810 Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Philipp
Freiherr von Vincke ................... 1774-1844
Magdeburg
1680 Duchy (Herzogtum) of Magdeburg under Prussia
1806 - 1814 French occupation
01 Aug 1816 Part of Saxony province
01 Jul 1944 Provinz Magdeburg created from part of Saxony province
23 Jul 1945 Part of Sachsen-Anhalt
Governors
1675 - 1681 August Herzong von Schleswig-
Holstein-Norburg-Plön ................. 1635-1699
1681 - 1687 Ernst Gottlieb von Börstel ............. 1630-1687
1687 - 1691 Ernst Carl Graf von Schomberg
1691 - 1692 Lüdecke Ernst von Schöning ............. 1649-1693
1692 - 18 Dec 1701 Wilhelm von Brandt
19 Dec 1701 - 09 Apr 1747 Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau .............. 1676-1747
09 Apr 1747 - 16 Dec 1751 Leopold Maximilian von Anhalt-Dessau ... 1700-1751
17 Dec 1751 - 02 May 1755 Anselm Christoph von Bonin ............. 1685-1755
1755 - 16 Dec 1766 Ferdinand Herzog von Braunschweig ...... 1721-1792
16 Dec 1766 - 14 Mar 1785 Friedrich Christoph von Saldern ........ 1719-1785
1785 - 1789 Christoph August von Lengefeld ......... 1728-1789
1789 - 1800 Ludwig Karl von Kalckstein ............. 1725-1800
1800 - 11 Nov 1806 Franz Kasimir von Kleist ............... 1736-1808
20 Nov 1806 - 06 Jan 1807 Jean-Baptiste Eblé (1st Time) .......... 1758-1812
07 Jan 1807 - 08 Apr 1807 Jean Jacques Liébert ................... 1758-1814
08 Apr 1807 - 20 Feb 1808 Jean-Baptiste Eblé (2nd Time)
20 Feb 1808 - 1813? Claude Ignace François Michaud ......... 1751-1839
1813 - 1814 Jean Léonor François Le Marois ......... 1776-18..
Oberpräsident
01 Jul 1944 - 1945 Rudolf Jordan .......................... 1902-1988 NSDAP
Kammerpräsidenten zu Magdeburg
17 Sep 1720 - 1735 Heinrich Christoph von Katte
1735 - 31 Mar 1754 Caspar Wichard von Platen .............. 1717-1754
05 Apr 1754 - 24 Sep 1755 Ernst Wilhelm von Schlabrendorff ....... 1719-1769
24 Sep 1755 - 03 Sep 1763 Joachim Christian von Blumenthal ....... 1720-1800
1763 - 1769 Christian Albert von Auer
1769 - 1770 Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von der
Schulenburg-Kehnert ................... 1742-1815
1770 - 1775 Leopold Otto Freiherr von Gaudi ........ 1728-1789
1775 - 1785 Heinrich Eggert von Winckel
1785 - 1796 Adolph Ludwig von Puttkamer
22 Nov 1796 - 1803 Ferdinand Ludolph Ludwig Friedrich
von Angern ............................ 1757-1826
1803 - 1804 Fridrich Karl Heinrich von Schwerin
1804 - 1807 Ludwig Friedrich Victor Hans
Graf von Bülow ........................ 1774-1825
Nassau
22 Feb 1867 Former Duchy of Nassau becomes Wiesbaden region of Hessen-Nassau
01 Jul 1944 Provinz Nassau (former Duchy of Nassau)
19 Sep 1945 Part of Hessen
Regierungspräsidenten
1867 - 1869 Gustav Friedrich Heinrich Paul von Diest 1826-1911
1869 - 1872 Botho Wendt August Graf zu Eulenburg ... 1831-1912
1872 - 28 Jul 1890 Gülow Karl Lothar von Wurmb ............ 1824-1890
1890 - 1897 Viktor Karl Erdmann von Tepper-Laski ... 1844-1905
1898 - 1902 Richard Adam von Wentzel ............... 1850-1916
1902 - 1905 Wilhelm Hengestenberg .................. 1853-1927
1905 - 1919 Karl Wilhelm von Meister ............... 1863-1956
1919 - 1922 Johann Wilhelm Momm .................... 1865-1935
1923 - 1925 Benno Paul Alexander Konrad Haenisch ... 1876-1925 SDP
1925 - 15 Feb 1933 Friedrich Ehrler ....................... 1871-1944 SDP
15 Feb 1933 - 16 Jun 1936 Werner Zschintzsch ..................... 1888-1953 NSDAP
16 Jun 1936 - 1943 Friedrich Pfeffer von Salomon .......... 1892-1961 NSDAP
1943 - 30 Jun 1944 Otto Schwebel .......................... 1903-1976 NSDAP
Oberpräsident
01 Jul 1944 - 10 Apr 1945 Jakob Sprenger ......................... 1884-1945 NSDAP
Regierungspräsidenten
24 Apr - 04 Aug 1945 Hans Karl August Friedrich Bredow ...... 1959-1979
05 Aug - 19 Sep 1945 Martin Nischalke ....................... 1882-1962 SPD
Niederschlesien (Lower Silesia)
14 Oct 1919 Lower Silesia province created by the partition of Silesia
01 Apr 1938 Part of reunited Silesia
27 Jan 1941 Re-created with the partition of Silesia
02 Aug 1945 Annexed to Poland, except areas west of the Niesse river
Oberpräsidenten
14 Oct 1919 - 25 May 1920 Felix Philipp .......................... 1868-1933
25 May 1920 - 31 Aug 1928 Hermann Zimmer ......................... 1867-1928
01 Sep 1928 - Oct 1932 Hermann Lüdemann ....................... 1880-1959
Oct 1932 - 25 Mar 1933 Friedrich Graf
von Degenfeld-Schonburg ............... 1878-1969
25 Mar 1933 - 26 Dec 1934 Helmuth Brückner ....................... 1896-1954 NSDAP
26 Dec 1934 - 31 Mar 1938 Josef Wagner ........................... 1899-1945 NSDAP
27 Jan 1941 - 05 May 1945 Karl Hanke ............................. 1903-1945 NSDAP
Neumark (East Brandenburg)
c.900 Part of Poland (Lubusz land)
1252 Lubusz land purchased by Brandenburg and Magdeburg
1401 - 1455 Pawned to the Teutonic Knights
18 Jan 1701 Part of Prussia
1806 - 1813 French occupation
1816 United with Kurmark as the province of Brandenburg
1945 Area east of the Oder and Neisse rivers incorporated
into Poland
Prasidenten der Kriegs - und Domanenkammern Neumark
1701 - 1715 .....
09 Sep 1715 - 1716 Heinrich Wolf von Platen
01 Jun 1716 - 1717 von Hagen
1717 - 1721 Peter Heinrich von Wobeser ............. 1688-1753
1721 - 1723 Christian Ernst von Münchow ............ 1672-1749
Directing Ministers for Neumark and Pommern
1723 - 18 Mar 1739 Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkov ......... 1679-1739
1739 - 24 Jun 1746 Friedrich von Goerne ................... 1670-1746
1746 - 1762 Adam Ludwig von Blumenthal ............. 1691-1762
1762 - 1798 Joachim Christian von Blumenthal ....... 1720-1800
1798 - 1806 Otto Friedrich Karl von Voss
Oberpräsident fur Pommern, Kurmark, Neumark und Magdeburg
06 Dec 1808 - 1810 Johann August Sack
Regierungsprasidenten in Frankfurt Oder
1810 - 1813 .....
1813 - 25 May 1815 Friedrich Ludwig August von Wissmann ... 1770-1856
Kammerpräsidenten Neumark
1723 - 1738 Christian Ernst von Münchow
13 Aug 1738 - Aug 1743 Reinhold von Werner
Aug 1743 - Jul 1744 Heinrich Christoph von Katte ........... 1699-1760
1744 - 1746 Valentin von Massow .................... 1712-1775
1746 - 1750 Alexander Samuel Freiherr von Loeben
27 Dec 1750 - 26 May 1763 Samuel Gottlieb von Rothenburg ......... 1703-1770
27 May 1763 - 01 Oct 1768 Georg Albrecht von Birckholtz .......... 1710-1777
01 Oct 1768 - 1773 Balthazar Leopold von Brauchitsch ...... 1725-1773
1773 - 27 Dec 1796 Karl Christian Heinrich Graf von Logau . 1735-1796
01 Jan 1797 - 26 Apr 1809 Franz Friedrich Christian
von Schierstedt ....................... 1753-1810
Oberschlesien (Upper Silesia)
14 Oct 1919 Upper Silesia province created by the partition of Silesia
04 Feb 1920 Hultschin ceded to Czechoslovakia
12 Feb 1920 - 1921 Under international commission
01 Oct 1938 - 1945 Hultschin re-annaxed to German
02 Oct 1945 Annexed to Poland
Reichskommissare
1919 Karl Johann Ferdinand Budding .......... 1870-1945
06 Apr 1919 - Jan 1920 Friedrich Otto Hörsing ................. 1874-1937
Oberpräsidenten
08 Nov 1919 - Dec 1922 Josef Bitta ............................ 1856-1932
Jan 1923 - 1929 Alfons Proske .......................... 1881-1950
1929 - 19 May 1933 Hans Lukaschek ......................... 1885-1960
14 Jun 1933 - 26 Dec 1934 Helmuth Brückner ....................... s.a NSDAP
26 Dec 1934 - 31 Mar 1938 Josef Wagner ........................... s.a NSDAP
27 Jan 1941 - 09 May 1945 Fritz Bracht ........................... 1899-1945 NSDAP
Ostpreußen (East Prussia)
19 Oct 1466 Polish fief
18 Jul 1618 United with Brandenburg
26 Sep 1629 - 12 Sep 1635 "Swedish Prussia" temporarily ceded to Sweden by Poland
22 Jan 1758 - Sep 1762 Annexed by Russia
31 Jan 1773 Province of East Prussia
16 Jun - 09 Jul 1807 French occupation
1812 - 1813 French occupation
03 Dec 1829 - 01 Apr 1878 United with Westpreussen as Prussia
15 Aug 1914 - Feb 1915 Partial Russian occupation
20 Jan 1945 Authorities start a mass evacuation of the population
21 Jan 1945 Start of Soviet occupation
19 Feb 1945 Southern zone transferred to the Polish provisional government
02 Aug 1945 Northern zone is transferred to the Soviet Union at
the Potsdam Conference, the German population is expelled
07 Apr 1946 Northern zone becomes the Russian enclave of the Kaliningrad oblast
Capital: Königsberg
Language: German, Polish, Lithuanian, Kuršu.
Religion: Lutheran, Roman Catholic.
President of the War Chamber
1714 - 1721 Karl Heinrich graf Truchsess von Waldmark
Directing Ministers for East Prussia, West Prussia and Lithuania
1723 - 1769 The Ministers for Neumark
1769 - 1775 Valentin von Mossow
1775 - 15 Sep 1789 Leopold Otto von Gaudi
1789 - 20 Oct 1791 Karl Maximilian von Ferdinand von Mauschwitz
20 Oct 1791 - 10 Nov 1795 Hans Ernst von Werder
10 Nov 1795 - Dec 1808 Friedrich Leopold von Schroetter
Oberpräsidenten
1762 - 1781 Johann Christian von Domhardt ......... 1712-1781
1781 - 1788 Joachim Oskar von Blumenthal .......... 1720-1800
1788 - 20 Oct 1791 Karl Maximilian von Mauschwitz ........ 1738-1792
1791 - 1814 Friedrich Leopold,
Freiherr von Schrotter ............... 1743-1815
(Staatsminister from 1807)
30 Apr 1814 - 1824 Hans Jakob von Auerswald .............. 1757-1833
(Oberprasident from 1808)
1824 - 1842 Theodor Heinrich von Schön ............ 1773-1856
1842 - 1848 Karl Wilhelm Boetticher ............... 1791-1868
1848 - 1849 Rudolf Ludwig Cäsar von Auerswald ..... 1795-1866
1849 - 1850 Eduard Heinrich Flottwell ............. 1786-1865
(acting)
1850 - Aug 1868 Franz August Eichmann ................. 1793-1869
1869 - 01 Apr 1882 Karl Wilhelm Heinrich Georg
von Horn ............................. 1807-1889
01 Apr 1882 - 14 May 1891 Albrecht Heinrich Karl
von Schlieckmann ..................... 1835-1901
14 May 1891 - 12 Mar 1895 Udo Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode ...... 1840-1910
12 Mar 1895 - 30 May 1901 Wilhelm Otto Albrecht Graf
von Bismark-Schoenhausen ............. 1852-1901
01 Jun 1901 - 1903 Hugo Samuel Ludwig Erdmann Reginald
Freiherr von Richthofen .............. 1842-1904
1903 - 1907 Friedrich Ludwig Elisa von Moltke ..... 1852-1927
1907 - Aug 1914 Ludwig Hubert von Windheim ............ 1857-1935
01 Oct 1914 - 10 Aug 1916 Adolf Maximilian Johannes Tortilowicz
von Batocki-Friebe (1st Time) ........ 1868-1944
10 Aug 1916 - 21 Jan 1918 Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard
von Berg-Markienen ................... 1866-1939
11 Feb 1918 - 30 Jun 1919 Adolf Maximilian Johannes Tortilowicz
von Batocki-Friebe (2nd Time)
01 Jul 1919 - 16 Mar 1920 August Winning ........................ 1878-1956
16 Mar 1920 - 22 Oct 1932 Ernst Siehr ........................... 1869-1945
22 Oct 1932 - May 1933 Wilhelm Kutscher ...................... 1876-1962
May 1933 - 22 Jan 1945 Erich Koch ............................ 1896-1986 NSDAP
Landeshauptmanner
1876 – 1878 Heinrich Edwin Rickert ................ 1833-1902
1878 – 1884 Kurt von Saucken-Tarputschen .......... 1825-1890
1884 – 14 Jul 1888 Alfred Johann von Gramatzki ........... 1834-1988
16 Jul 1888 – 29 Oct 1895 Klemens von Stockhausen ............... 1845-1895
1896 – 11 Aug 1909 Rudolf Maria Ignaz von Brandt ......... 1835-1909
1909 – 1916 Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard von Berg ... 1866-1939
1916 – 1928 Manfred Magnus Otto
Graf von Brünneck-Bellschwitz ........ 1872-1957
1928 – 1936 Paul Blunk ............................ 1880-1947
1936 – 1941 Helmuth von Wedelstädt ................ 1902-1988
1941 – 1945 Reinhard Bezzenberger
Königsberg
1255 City of Königsberg founded
1525 Prussian capital
18 Jan 1701 Prussian capital transferred to Berlin
09 Apr 1945 Königsberg, having been mostly destroyed
is captured by Soviet forces
04 Jul 1946 Renamed Kaliningrad
Kammerpräsidenten der Königsberg
26 Sep 1714 - Oct 1721 Christian Ernst von Münchow
04 Feb 1723 - 1746 Johann Friedrich von Lesgewang
1746 - 1750 Ehrenreich Sigismund von Bredow
16 Jul 1750 - 1753 Joachim Ewald von Massow
22 Dec 1753 - 1761 David Siegmund von der Marwitz
Bürgermeister
1464 - 1465 Georg Steinhaupt
1710 - 1724 Christoph Aegidius von Negelein ....... 1668-1746
1780 - 23 Apr 1796 Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel ........... 1741-1796
1796 - 1809 Bernhard Gervais
Oberbürgermeister
1809 - 1810 Martin Gottlieb Deetz ................. 1769-1842
Mar 1810 - 15 Nov 1813 August Wilhelm Heidermann ............. 1773-1813
1814 - 1826 Karl Friedrich Horn
1826 - 1838 Johann Friedrich List ................. 1787-1868
1838 - 1842 Rudolf von Auerswald .................. 1795-1866
1843 - 1848 August Friedrich Krah
1853 - 1864 Karl Gottfried Sperling
1864 - 31 Dec 1866 Adolf Ernst von Ernsthausen ........... 1827-1894
01 Jan 1867 - 1872 Friedrich Kieschke
1872 - 31 Dec 1874 Karl Johann Adolf Eduard Szerpanski
01 Jan 1875 - 1893 Johann Karl Adolf Selke
1893 - 06 Sep 1902 Hermanm Theodor Hoffmann .............. 1836-1902
01 Jan 1903 - 09 Nov 1918 Siegfried Körte ....................... 1861-1919
1919 - 30 Jan 1933 Hans Lohmeyer ......................... 1881-1968
30 Jan 1933 - 25 Apr 1945 Hellmuth Will ......................... 1900-1982 NSDAP
Pommern (Pommerania)
24 Oct 1648 Pomerania a Swedish possession, confirmed by Treaty of Westphalia
11 Jul 1654 Hinterpommern becomes a Prussian province
19 Sep 1657 Lauenburg, Bütow and Draheim granted to Prussia by Poland
21 Jan 1719 Swedish Pomerania south of the river Peene ceded to Prussia
14 Nov 1806 - 05 Dec 1813 French occupation
23 Oct 1815 Denmark ceded Swedish Pomerania to Prussia
31 Jul 1945 Vorpommern part of the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
02 Aug 1945 Partitioned along the Oder; Hinterpommern to Poland
Oberpräsident fur Pommerm, Kurmark, Neumark und Magdeburg
06 Dec 1808 - Nov 1810 Johann August Sack
Civil Governors
15 Mar 1813 - 30 May 1814 Karl Friedrich von Beyme .............. 1765-1838
30 May 1814 - 25 May 1815 .....
Oberpräsidenten
25 May 1815 - Jan 1816 Karl Heinrich Ludwig
Freiherr von Ingersleben ............. 1753-1831
10 May 1816 - 18 Jun 1831 Johann August Sack .................... 1764-1831
20 Jul 1831 - Feb 1835 Moritz Haubold Freiherr von Schonberg . 1770-1860
12 May 1835 - 28 Jan 1852 Wilhelm Friedrich Fürchtegott
von Bonin ............................ 1786-1852
12 Sep 1852 - 12 Oct 1866 Ernst Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf
Freiherr Senfft von Pilsach .......... 1795-1882
01 Jan 1867 - 21 Jul 1882 Ferdinand Karl Wilhelm August
Freiherr von Münchhausen ............. 1810-1882
26 Jan 1883 - 30 Jun 1891 Ulrich Karl August Wilhelm Hermann
Axel Graf von Behr-Negendank ......... 1826-1902
03 Jul 1891 - 31 Dec 1899 Robert Victor von Puttkammer .......... 1828-1900
01 Jan 1900 - 31 Oct 1911 Helmuth Freiherr von Maltzahn ......... 1840-1923
01 Nov 1911 - 14 Jul 1917 Wilhelm August Hans
von Waldow-Reitzenstein .............. 1856-1937
06 Aug 1917 - 22 Mar 1918 Maximilian Hermann Freiherr von Ziller 1867-1929
01 Apr 1918 - 31 Mar 1919 Georg Michaelis ....................... 1857-1936
01 Apr 1919 - 31 Mar 1930 Julius Lippmann ....................... 1864-1934
01 Apr 1930 - 01 Oct 1933 Karl von Halfern ...................... 1873-1937
01 Oct 1933 - 21 Jul 1934 Rudolf Walther Matthias Maria
zur Bonsen ........................... 1886-1952 NSDAP
(acting)
21 Jul 1934 - 04 May 1945 Franz Reinhold Schwede ................ 1888-1960 NSDAP
Prasidenten der Kriegs - und Domanenkammern
10 Sep 1716 - Aug 1736 Kaspar Otto von Massow
Aug 1736 - 05 Jul 1742 Philipp Otto von Grumbkow ............. 1684-1752
1742 - 1763 Georg Wilhelm von Aschersleseben
31 Mar 1763 - 29 Nov 1797 Hans Friedrich von Schöning ........... 1717-1787
1787 - 1795 Karl Wilhelm von Bessel
1795 - 1798 Johann Friedrich von Schütz
1798 - 1806 Karl Heinrich Ludwig, Freiherr
von Ingersleben ...................... 1753-1831
1806 - 1808 George Christian Ludwig
von Heyderbreck ...................... 1765-1828
Posen (Grenzmark Posen-Westpreußen)
24 Jan 1793 Annexed from Poland, incorporated into Prussia
as Südpreussen (South Prussia)
29 Aug 1807 - 20 Jun 1815 Part of the Duchy of Warsaw
1813 - 20 Jun 1815 Russian occupation
20 Jun 1815 Eastern part to Russian Empire
20 Jun 1815 Grand Duchy of Posen
07 Feb 1849 Autonomy abolished
1916 de Jure part of Kingdom of Poland
27 Dec 1918 - 28 Jun 1919 Greater Poland Uprising (province de facto independent)
28 Jun 1919 Majority of the province ceded to Poland by Germany by
the Treaty of Versailles
10 Jan 1920 Treaty Ratified
17 Jan 1920 Part of the Poznan voivodship
1922 Grenzmark Posen West-Prussia formed from parts
of Posen not incorporated into Poland
02 Sep 1938 Grenzmark divided between Brandenburg, Pommern and Schlesien
26 Oct 1939 Poznan voivodship annexed by Germany (not to Prussia)
02 Nov 1939 United with Reichsgau Wartheland
02 Aug 1945 Re-incorporated into Poland
Grand Dukes
20 Jun 1815 - 28 Nov 1918 The Kings of Prussia
Reichskommissar
06 Apr 1919 - 10 Jan 1920 Friedrich Otto Hörsing ................ 1874-1937
Military Governor
24 Jan - 07 Apr 1793 Wichard Joachim Heinrich
von Möllendorff ...................... 1734-1816
Directing Ministers
07 Apr 1793 - 24 Sep 1794 Otto Karl Friedlich von Voss (1st Time) 1755-1823
24 Sep 1794 - 22 Apr 1798 Karl Georg Heinrich Graf von Hoym ..... 1739-1807
22 Apr 1798 - 29 Aug 1807 Otto Karl Friedlich von Voss (2nd Time)
Governor
20 Jun 1815 - 1830 Antoni Henryk Prince Radziwill
von Nieswiecz-Olyka .................. 1775-1833
Oberpräsidenten
30 Apr 1815 - 1824 Josef Zerboni di Sposetti ............. 1760-1831
1825 - 04 Oct 1830 Johann Friedrich Theodor
von Baumann .......................... 1768-1830
04 Oct 1830 - 1840 Eduard Heinrich Flottwell ............. 1786-1865
1840 - 1842 Adolf Heinrich Graf
von Arnim-Boitzenburg ................ 1803-1868
1843 - 1850 Karl Moritz von Beurmann .............. 1802-1870
1850 - 1851 Gustav Carl Gisbert Heinrich .......... 1797-1878
Wilhelm Gebhard von Bonin (1st Time)
1851 - 1860 Eugen von Puttkammer .................. 1800-1874
1860 - 1862 Gustav Carl Gisbert Heinrich
Wilhelm Gebhard von Bonin (2nd Time)
1862 - 1869 Karl Wilhelm Heinrich Georg von Horn .. 1807-1889
1869 - 1873 Otto Graf von Königsmarck ............. 1815-1889
1873 - 1886 Wilhelm Bartsow von Guenther .......... 1815-1892
1886 - 1890 Robert Graf von Zedtlitz-Trützschler .. 1837-1914
1890 - 1899 Hugo Theodor Wichardt Freiherr
von Wilzmowitz-Moellendorff .......... 1840-1905
1899 - 1903 Karl Julius Rudolf von Bitter ......... 1846-1914
1903 - 1911 Wilhelm August Hans von Waldow
-Reitzenstein ........................ 1856-1937
1911 - 1914 Philipp Schwartzkopff
1914 - 1919 Johann Karl Friedrich Moritz Ferdinand
von Eisenhart-Rothe .................. 1862-1942
1919 - 1920 Friedrich August von Bülow ............ 1868-1936
(in Schneidemühl)
Oberpräsidenten for Grenzmark-Posen-West Preussen
21 Jul 1922 - 31 Mar 1933 Friedrich August von Bülow ............ s.a
01 Apr - 05 Jul 1933 Hans von Meibom ....................... 1879-1960
05 Jul 1933 - 07 Aug 1936 Wilhelm Paul Richard Kube ............. 1887-1943 NSDAP
07 Aug 1936 - 02 Sep 1938 Emil Stürtz ........................... 1892-1945 NSDAP
Military governor
12 Sep - 25 Oct 1939 Alfred von Vollard-Bockelberg ......... 1874-1945 Mil
Reichsstatthalter
26 Oct 1939 - 23 Feb 1945 Arthur Karl Greiser ................... 1897-1946 NSDAP
Rheinland (Rhineland)
01 Aug 1816 Niedrrhein province
27 Jun 1822 Rheinland province
1919 - 1930 Allied occupation
21 Oct 1923 - 26 Nov 1924 Abortive attemped at creating buffer zone,
(Rhenish Republic), as French client state
20 Jun 1945 Nordrhein province created from Northern Rheinland
23 Aug 1946 Province abolished, territory becomes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Oberpräsidenten
01 Aug 1816 - 13 May 1831 Karl Heinrich Ludwig Freiherr
von Ingersleben ...................... 1753-1831
(for Niederrhein to 27 Jun 1822)
13 May 1831 - 1834 Philipp von Pestel .................... 1767-1835
1834 - 1842 Ernst Albert Karl Wilhelm Ludwig
Freiherr von Bodelschwingh ........... 1794-1854
1842 - 1845 Justus Wilhelm Eduard von Schaper ..... 1792-1868
16 Jul 1945 - Sep 1848 Franz August Eichmann (1st Time) ...... 1793-1879
Sep - 12 Nov 1848 Eduard von Moeller .................... 1814-1880
(acting)
12 Nov 1848 - 31 Aug 1850 Franz August Eichmann (2nd Time)
01 Sep 1850 - 1851 Rudolf Ludwig Cäsar von Auerswald ..... 1745-1866
1851 - 1858 Hans Hugo von Kleist-Retzow ........... 1814-1892
1858 - 07 Dec 1871 Adolf von Pommer-Esche ................ 1804-1871
17 Jun 1872 - 01 Oct 1889 Moritz Heinrich Albrecht von Bardeleben 1814-1890
01 Oct 1889 - 1890 Hans Hermann Freiherr von Berlepsch ... 1843-1926
1890 - 1905 Berthold Johann Marcellus Edmund Nasse 1831-1906
1905 - 1910 Clemens August Freiherr
von Schorlemer-Lieser ................ 1856-1922
1910 - 1918 Georg Freiherr von Rheinbaben ......... 1855-1921
Apr 1918 - 10 May 1922 Rudolf Felix Josef von Groote ......... 1858-1922
1922 - Mar 1933 Johannes Fuchs ........................ 1874-1956
Mar 1933 - 05 Feb 1935 Herman Josef Anton,
Freiherr von Lüninck ................. 1893-1975
05 Feb 1935 - 07 May 1945 Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven ...... 1898-1945 NSDAP
04 Jul - 02 Oct 1945 Hans Fuchs ............................ 1874-1956
02 Oct 1945 - 24 Jul 1946 Robert Lehr ........................... 1883-1956 CDU
President of the Rhenish Republic
21 Oct 1923 - 26 Nov 1924 Josef Friedrich Matthes ............... 1886-1943
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
07 Dec 1849 Principalities of Hohenzollern-Hechingen and
Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen agree to cede sovereignty to Prussia
12 Mar 1850 Annexed by Prussia, incorporated into Rheinland province
16 Oct 1945 Merged with Würtemberg, later Baden-Würtemberg
Regierungspräsidenten
07 Dec 1849 - 08 Aug 1851 Adolf Karl Freiherr von Spiegel
-Borlinghausen und zu Peckelsheim ...... 1792-1852
08 Aug 1851 - 13 Feb 1852 Anton von Sallwürk
13 Feb 1852 - 1854 Ludwig Viktor, Margrave von Villers,
Graf von Grignoncourt .................. 1810-1881
15 Apr 1854 - 26 Mar 1859 Rudolf von Sydow ........................ 1805-1872
04 Apr 1859 - 1862 Karl Theodor Seydel ..................... 1812-1873
May 1862 - Jun 1863 Johann Hermann von Graaf
(1st Time, acting)
01 Jul 1863 - 10 Dec 1874 Robert Ludwig Werner von Blumenthal ..... 1803-1892
10 Dec 1874 - 30 Apr 1887 Johann Hermann von Graaf
(1st Time)
01 May 1887 - 12 Dec 1893 Gustav Adolf, Freiherr Frank
von Fürstenwerth
12 Dec 1893 - 20 Apr 1894 .....
20 Apr 1894 - 28 Feb 1898 Franz Albrecht Maria von Schwartz
01 Mar 1898 - 16 Oct 1899 Karl Friedrich von Oertzen .............. 1844-1914
16 Oct 1899 - 30 Sep 1919 Maria Franz Leopold August Petrus
Hubertus Xavierius Graf Bühl
01 Oct 1919 - 30 Apr 1926 Emil Belzer
01 May 1926 - 31 Aug 1931 Alfons Scherer .......................... 1885-1964
01 Sep 1931 - 27 Feb 1933 Heinrich Brand .......................... 1887-1971
27 Feb 1933 - 31 Jul 1940 Karl Alfred Simons ...................... 1877-1960
01 Aug 1940 - 31 Jul 1941 Hermann Darsen .......................... 1892-1941
01 Aug 1941 - 30 Jan 1942 Hans Piesbergen ......................... 1891-1970
30 Jan 1942 - 22 May 1945 Wilhelm Dreher .......................... 1892-1969
Jun - 16 Oct 1945 Clemens Moser ........................... 1885-1956 CDU
Sachsen
05 Jun 1815 Allied administration, formally part of the Kingdom of Saxony
01 Apr 1816 Prussian Province formed with the merger of Magdeburg
01 Jul 1944 Divided into Reichsgaue Magdeburg and Halle-Merseburg
23 Jul 1945 Province of Saxony-Anhalt
10 Jan 1947 State of Saxony-Anhalt
Oberpräsidenten
21 Jun 1815 - 31 Mar 1816 Wilhelm Anton von Klewitz ............... 1760-1838
01 Apr 1816 - 1821 Friedrich Wilhelm August Werner von Bülow 1762-1827
1821 - 1825 Friedrich Christian Adolf von Mortz ..... 1775-1860
1825 - 1837 Wilhelm Anton von Klewitz ............... 1760-1838
1837 - 1840 Anton Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode ...... 1785-1854
1840 - 1844 Eduard Heinrich von Flottwell ........... 1786-1865
1844 - 1845 Wilhelm Felix Heinrich Magnus
von Wedell ............................. 1801-1866
1845 - 1850 Gustav Karl Gisbert Heinrich
Wilhelm Gebhard von Bonin .............. 1797-1878
1850 - 1872 Hartmann Erasmus von Witzleben .......... 1805-1878
1873 - 1881 Erasmus Robert Freiherr von Patow ....... 1804-1890
1881 - 1890 Arthur Paul Ferdinand von Wolff ......... 1828-1898
1890 - 1897 Albrecht Reinhold von Pommer-Esche ...... 1837-1908
1898 - 1906 Karl Heinrich von Boetticher ............ 1833-1907
1906 - 1908 Adolf Wilhelm Kurt Freiherr
von Wilmowski .......................... 1850-1941
1908 - 1917 Eduard Wilhelm von Hegel ................ 1849-1925
1917 - 01 Jul 1919 Rudolf Wilhelm Graf
von der Schulenburg .................... 1860-1930
23 Feb 1920 - 1927 Friedrich Otto Hörsing .................. 1874-1937
1927 - 1930 Heinrich Waentig ........................ 1870-1943
Jun 1930 - 21 Jul 1932 Karl Falck .............................. 1884-1947
1933 Kurt Melcher ............................ 1881-1970
1933 - 20 Jun 1934 Friedrich Karl Ludwig von Velsen ........ 1871-1953 NSDAP
20 Jun 1934 - 30 Jun 1944 Kurt Albrecht Paul von Ulrich ........... 1876-1946 NSDAP
20 Jul 1945 - 21 Jul 1947 Erhard Hübener .......................... 1881-1952 LDP
Landeshauptmänner
1876 - 1900 Wilko Levin Graf von Wintzingerode ...... 1833-1907
1908 - 1921 Adolf Wilhelm Kurt Freiherr von Wilmowsky 1850-1941
1921 - 1924 Carl Gustav Rudolf Oeser ................ 1858-1926
1924 - 1933 Erhard Hübener .......................... 1881-1958
1933 - 1945 Kurt Otto ............................... 1887-1947 NSDAP
Schlesien (Silesia)
c. 985 Silesia part of Poland
1335 Silesia part of the Bohemian royal realm
24 Oct 1526 Under Habsburg Monarchy
11 Jun 1742 Annexed by Prussia from Habsburg Bohemia
14 Oct 1919 - 31 Mar 1938 Partitioned into Upper and Lower Silesia
20 Oct 1921 Parts of Eastern Silesia ceded to Poland
01 Apr 1938 - 27 Jan 1941 United into one province
26 Oct 1939 Polish areas annexed
27 Jan 1941 Divided again
02 Aug 1945 Part of Poland (except parts west of the Neisse)
Directing Ministers
11 Jun 1742 - 1753 Ludwig Wilhelm Graf von Münchow ........ 1712-1753
(President of the war chaimber)
1753 - 1755 Joachim Ewald von Massow ............... 1697-1769
1755 - 1769 Ernst Wilhelm von Schlabrendorff ....... 1719-1769
1769 - 31 Aug 1807 Karl Georg Heinrich Graf von Hoym ...... 1739-1807
Oberpräsidenten
01 Sep 1807 - 1813 Ewald Georg von Massow ................. 1754-1820
- 13 Mar 1813 Karl Sigmund Franz Freiherr
vom Stein zu Altenstein ............... 1770-1840
13 Mar 1813 - 1820 Friedrich Theodor Merckel (1st Time) ... 1775-1846
1820 - 1824 Richter (acting)
1824 - 1825 Moritz Haubold Freiherr von Schönberg .. 1770-1860
- 10 Jul 1825 Ludwig Friedrich Viktor Hans,
Graf von Bülow ........................ 1774-1825
10 Jul 1825 - 16 May 1845 Friedrich Theodor von Merckel
(2nd Time)
16 May 1845 - 30 Mar 1848 Wilhelm Felix Heinrich Magnus von Wedell 1801-1866
30 Mar - 20 Nov 1848 Julius Hermann Pinder .................. 1805-1867
1848 Hans Ludwig David Julius Theodor
Florian Graf York von Wartenburg ...... 1805-1865
1848 - 04 Jun 1869 Johann Eduard Christoph,
Freiherr von Schleinitz ............... 1798-1869
04 Jun 1869 - 08 Aug 1872 Eberhard Graf zu Stolber-Werigerode .... 1810-1872
1873 - 1874 Ferdinand Otto Freiherr von Nordenflycht 1816-1901
1874 - 1877 Adolf Graf von Arnim-Boitzenburg ....... 1832-1887
1877 - 1879 Robert Viktor von Puttkamer ............ 1828-1900
1879 - 1894 Otto Theodor von Seydewitz ............. 1818-1898
1894 - 1903 Hermann Fürst von Hatzfeldt
-Trachenberg ........................... 1848-1933
1903 - Dec 1909 Robert Graf von Zedlitz-Trachenberg .... 1837-1914
Jan - 25 Oct 1910 Johann Nikolaus Michael Louis
von Dallwitz .......................... 1855-1919
25 Oct 1910 - 31 Mar 1919 Hans Lauchlan von Guenther ............. 1864-1934
08 Apr - 14 Oct 1919 Felix Philipp .......................... 1868-1933
01 Apr 1938 - 27 Jan 1941 Josef Wagner ........................... s.a NSDAP
Schleswig-Holstein
To 1864 Part of Denmark
30 Oct 1864 Ceded to Austrian Empire
23 Aug 1866 Ceded to Prussia by Denmark
28 Jun 1919 Conditionally seperated from Prussia
15 Jun 1920 North Schleswig reincoporated into Denmark
following a allied pleblisite
23 Aug 1946 Becomes a state of Germany
Reichskommissar
Apr 1919 - Apr 1920 Adolf Köster-Damm ...................... 1883-1930
Oberpräsidenten
12 Jun 1866 - 1879 Karl Theodor August
Freiherr von Scheel-Plessen ........... 1811-1892
1879 - 1880 Karl Heinrich von Boetticher ........... 1833-1907
1880 - 1896 Georg Franz Maximilian von Steinmanm ... 1830-1901
1897 - 1901 Ernst Matthias von Köller .............. 1841-1928
1901 - 1906 Adolf Wilhelm Kurt
Freiherr von Wilmowski ................ 1850-1941
1906 - 1907 Kurt Ludwig Karl von Dewitz ............ 1847-1925
1907 - 1914 Detlev Wilhelm Theodor von Bülow ....... 1854-1926
1914 - 31 Dec 1918 Friedrich Ludwig Elisa von Moltke ...... 1852-1927
10 Mar 1919 - 21 Jul 1932 Heinrich Kürbis ........................ 1873-1951 SPD
Oct 1932 - 25 Mar 1933 Heinrich Thon .......................... 1872-1939
25 May 1933 - 06 May 1945 Heinrich Lohse ......................... 1896-1964 NSDAP
14 May - 15 Nov 1945 Otto Hoevermann ........................ 1888-1953
(acting)
15 Nov 1945 - 23 Aug 1946 Theodor Hans Steltzer .................. 1885-1967 CDU
Westfalen (Westphalia)
Oct 1813 Prussian occupation of the Kingdom of Westphalia
01 Oct 1816 Prussian province of Westfalen
23 Aug 1946 Part of Nordrhein-Westfalen
Oberpräsidenten
19 Nov 1813 - 02 Dec 1844 Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Philipp
Freiherr von Vincke ................... 1774-1844
(civil governor to 1816)
02 Dec 1844 - 27 May 1845 Justus Wilhelm Duvignon ................ 1793-1866
27 May 1845 - 15 Jul 1846 Justus Wilhelm Eduard von Schaper ...... 1792-1868
15 Jul 1846 - 21 Jul 1850 Eduard Heinrich Flottwell .............. 1786-1865
21 Jul 1850 - 08 May 1871 Franz Gerhard Xaver von Duesburg ....... 1793-1872
08 May - 02 Jun 1871 Franz Otto Gustav Albrecht
von Manderode ......................... 1805-1871
02 Jun 1871 - 02 Dec 1882 Friedrich Christian Hubert
von Kühlwetter ........................ 1809-1882
02 Dec 1882 - 23 Jul 1883 August Julius Wilhelm
von Liebermann ........................ 1826-1902
23 Jul 1883 - 29 May 1889 Robert Eduard von Hagermeister ......... 1827-1902
29 May 1889 - 02 Apr 1899 Heinrich Konrad Studt .................. 1838-1921
02 Apr - 16 Sep 1899 Alfred Klemens Karl Maria von Gescher .. 1844-1932
(acting)
16 Sep 1899 - 16 Feb 1911 Gustav Wilhelm Eberhard Freiherr
von der Recke von der Horst ........... 1847-1911
16 Feb - 13 Mar 1911 Ladislaus von Jarotzki ................. 1858-19..
(acting)
13 Mar 1911 - 03 May 1919 Karl Egon zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst . 1860-1931
03 May - 24 Oct 1919 Felix Friedrich Graf von Merveldt ...... 1862-1926
(1st Time, acting)
24 Oct 1919 - 31 Mar 1922 Bernhard Friedrich von Wuermeling ...... 1854-1937
31 Mar - 28 Apr 1922 Felix Friedrich Graf von Merveldt
(2nd Time, acting)
28 Apr 1922 - 31 Mar 1933 Johannes Franz Gronowski ............... 1874-1958
31 Mar - 12 Jul 1933 Hermann Pünder ......................... 1888-1976
(acting)
12 Jul 1933 - 1938 Ferdinand Josef Meinolph Anton
Maria Freiherr von Lüninck ............ 1888-1944 NSDAP
1938 - 11 Apr 1945 Alfred Meyer ........................... 1891-1945 NSDAP
May - 02 Jun 1945 Karl Friedrich Kolbow .................. 1899-1945
(acting)
02 Jun - 02 Jul 1945 Bernhard Salzmann ...................... 1886-1959
(acting)
07 Jul 1945 - 23 Aug 1946 Rudolf Amelunxen ....................... 1888-1969
Westpreußen (West Prussia)
04 Feb 1454 Royal Prussia in personal union with Poland
04 Jul 1569 In full union with Poland, called Littoral Poland
05 Aug 1772 Annexed by Prussia at the First Partition of Poland
03 Dec 1829 - 31 Mar 1878 United with East Prussia as province of Prussia
10 Jan 1920 Incorporated into Poland
01 Sep 1939 - 02 Apr 1945 Re-incorporated into Germany as Danzig-Westpreussen
02 Apr 1945 Re-incorporated into Poland
Oberpräsidenten
05 Aug 1772 - 1781 Johann Friedrich von Domhardt .......... 1712-1781
1781 - 1788 Leopold Otto von Gaudi
1788 - 25 Oct 1791 Karl Maximilian Ferdinand
von Mauschwitz
25 Oct 1791 - 1815 Friedrich Leopold Freiherr
von Schrötter ......................... 1743-1815
01 Apr 1816 - 03 Dec 1829 Theodor Heinrich von Schön ............. 1773-1856
01 Apr 1878 - 1879 Heinrich Karl Julius von Achenbach ..... 1829-1899
1879 - 1888 Karl Adolf August Ernst
von Ernsthausen ....................... 1827-1894
1888 - 22 Apr 1891 Adolf Hilmar von Leipziger ............. 1825-1891
22 Apr 1891 - 29 Sep 1902 Gustav Heinrich Konrad von Gossler ..... 1841-1921
29 Sep - 1902 Jaroslaw von Jarocski .................. 1851-1928
(acting)
1902 - 1905 Klemens Gottlieb Ernst von Delbrück .... 1856-1921
1905 - Jan 1919 Ernst Ludwig von Jagow ................. 1853-1930
Jan 1919 - 10 Jan 1920 August Winnig .......................... 1878-1956
Reichsstatthalter
01 Sep 1939 - 02 Apr 1945 Albert Maria Forster ................... 1902-1952 NSDAP
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