Magdeburg Province

Magdeburg
Province of Prussia
←
 1944–1945 →
Capital Magdeburg
High President Joachim Albrecht Eggeling
Historical era World War II
 - Established 1 April 1944
 - Disestablished 9 July 1945
Area
 - 1933 (within 1944-45 borders) 11,587.87 km2 (4,474 sq mi)
Population
 - 1933 (within 1944-45 borders) 1,303,848 
     Density 112.5 /km2  (291.4 /sq mi)

The Province of Magdeburg (German: Provinz Magdeburg) was a province of the Free State of Prussia within Nazi Germany from 1944-45. The provincial capital was Magdeburg.

The province was created on 1 July 1944, out of Regierungsbezirk Magdeburg, a government region from the former Province of Saxony.

The province was occupied by American troops after the conquest of Magdeburg in May 1945 during World War II. After the territory was transferred from American to Soviet control, it was merged with Halle-Merseburg and Anhalt to recreate the Province of Saxony, later renamed the Province of Saxony-Anhalt and ultimately the Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt.

Contents

Districts in 1945

Regierungsbezirk Magdeburg

Urban districts

  1. Aschersleben
  2. Burg bei Magdeburg
  3. Halberstadt
  4. Magdeburg
  5. Quedlinburg
  6. Salzwedel
  7. Stendal

Rural districts

  1. Calbe a./S.
  2. Gardelegen
  3. Haldensleben
  4. Jerichow I (seat: Burg bei Magdeburg)
  5. Jerichow II (seat: Genthin)
  6. Oschersleben (Bode)
  7. Osterburg
  8. Quedlinburg
  9. Salzwedel
  10. Stendal
  11. Wanzleben
  12. Wernigerode
  13. Wolmirstedt
Territories and provinces of Prussia (1525–1947)
Before 1701
After 1701
Post-Congress of
Vienna (1814–15)
Territorial reforms
after 1918
1 Became Province of Posen in 1848.   2 From the Lower Rhine and Jülich-Cleves-Berg.