Wiesbaden (region)
Wiesbaden was one of three administrative regions (along with Darmstadt and Kassel) from which the state of Hesse was formed in 1945.
The administrative district of Wiesbaden was founded on February 22, 1867, a year after the Austro-Prussian War of 1866. It was one of the two political subdivisions (along with Kassel) of the province of Hesse-Nassau (a Prussian province formed in 1868 from three former states of the German Confederation: the Duchy of Nassau, the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg, and the Free City of Frankfurt).
In 1968, the district was dissolved, and its territory was merged with the administrative district of Darmstadt.
District presidents
- 1867–1869 Gustav von Diest
- 1869–1872 Botho Graf zu Eulenberg
- 1872–1890 Lothar von Wurmb
- 1890–1897 Viktor von Tepper-Laski
- 1898–1902 Richard Wentzel
- 1902–1905 Wilhelm Hengstenberg
- 1905–1919 Karl Wilhelm von Meister
- 1919–1922 Willy Momm
- 1923–1925 Konrad Haenisch (SPD)
- 1925–1933 Fritz Ehrler (SPD)
- 1933–1936 Werner Zschintsch (NSDAP)
- 1936–1943 Fritz Pfeffer von Salomon (NSdAP)
- 1943–1945 Otto Schwebel (NSdAP)
- 1945 (1 May - 3 August) Hans Bredow
- 1945–1948 Martin Nischalke
- 1948–1956 Heinrich Noelle
- 1959–1963 Walter Schubert
- 1963–1968 Karl Wittrock
See also
References
- Eckhart G. Franz: Die Chronik Hessens Chronik Verlag, Dortmund 1991 ISBN 3-611-00192-9
- Karl Müller: Preußischer Adler und Hessischer Löwe – Hundert Jahre Wiesbadener Regierung 1866–1966, Wiesbaden 1966
- Andreas Anderhub: Verwaltung im Regierungsbezirk Wiesbaden 1866 - 1885, Historische Kommission für Nassau, Wiesbaden 1977