1944–1945 → 1944–1945 Joachim A. Eggeling Disestablished 23 July 1945 Historical era World War II | Government Province Established 1 July 1944 Capital Merseburg | |
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1933 10,217.26 km (3,945 sq mi) | ||
The Province of Halle-Merseburg (German: Provinz Halle-Merseburg) was a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1944–45. The provincial capital was the city Merseburg.
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Halle-Merseburg was created on 1 July 1944, out of Regierungsbezirk Merseburg, an administrative region from the former Province of Saxony. The governor of the new province was Joachim Albrecht Eggeling, the Gauleiter of the Nazi Gau Halle-Merseburg. In 1945, the Province of Halle-Merseburg was dissolved into a recreated Province of Saxony.
Urban districts
- Eisleben
- Halle
- Merseburg
- Naumburg
- Weißenfels
- Lutherstadt Wittenberg
- Zeitz
Rural districts
- Bitterfeld
- Delitzsch
- Eckartsberga (seat: Kölleda)
- Liebenwerda (seat: Bad Liebenwerda)
- Mansfelder Gebirgskreis (seat: Mansfeld)
- Mansfelder Seekreis (seat: Eisleben)
- Merseburg
- Querfurt
- Saalkreis (seat: Halle)
- Sangerhausen
- Schweinitz (seat: Herzberg)
- Torgau
- Weißenfels
- Wittenberg
- Zeitz
References
Halle-Merseburg Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA