Greater Hesse
Provisional name for a section of German territory / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Greater Hesse (German: Groß-Hessen) was the provisional name given for a section of German territory created by the United States military administration in at the end of World War II. It was formed by the Allied Control Council on 19 September 1945[1] and became the modern German state of Hesse on 1 December 1946.[2]
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Greater Hesse Groß-Hessen | |||||||||||||
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Subdivision of American-administered Germany | |||||||||||||
1945–1946 | |||||||||||||
Greater Hesse (bright orange) within the US-administered zone of post-World War II Germany (pale orange). | |||||||||||||
Capital | Wiesbaden | ||||||||||||
Government | |||||||||||||
• Type | Military occupation | ||||||||||||
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• September–October 1945 | Ludwig Bergsträsser | ||||||||||||
• October 1945 – December 1946 | Karl Geiler | ||||||||||||
Historical era | World War II | ||||||||||||
• Established | 19 September 1945 | ||||||||||||
• Disestablished | 1 December 1946 | ||||||||||||
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