Province of Magdeburg

Prussian province within Nazi Germany (1944–45)

Province of Magdeburg

Provinz Magdeburg (German)

Province of Prussia
1944–1945

The Province of Magdeburg in 1944.
Capital| Magdeburg
Area|

• 1933a

| 11,587.87 km2 (4,474.10 sq mi)
Population|

• 1933a

| 1.303.848
Government|
• Type| Province
High President|

• 1944–1945

| Rudolf Jordan
Historical era| World War II

• Established

| 1 July 1944

• Disestablished

| 23 July 1945

Preceded by | Succeeded by

|

|  | Province of Saxony

|

| Saxony-Anhalt (1945–1952) |

|

a. Within 1944/45 borders.

The Province of Magdeburg (German: Provinz Magdeburg) was a province of the Free State of Prussia within Nazi Germany from 1944 to 1945. 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.[1]

The province was occupied by American troops after the conquest of Magdeburg in April 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,[note 1] later renamed the Province of Saxony-Anhalt and ultimately the Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt.

## Districts in 1945

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### Regierungsbezirk Magdeburg

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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

## Notes

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1. ^ The original Prussian Province of Saxony also included the territory of the Province of Erfurt [de], which became part of Thuringia, and did not include Anhalt. Some other minor enclaves of the Prussian province were also integrated into the new province.

## References

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1. ^ "Erlaß des Führers über die Aufgliederung der Provinz Sachsen". verfassungen.de (in German). Retrieved 17 February 2024.

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Territories and provinces of Prussia (1525–1947)

Before 1701|

* Duchy of Prussia
* Margraviate of Brandenburg
* Cleves / Mark / Ravensberg (1614)
* Farther Pomerania / Minden / Halberstadt (1648)
* Lauenburg–Bütow / Draheim (1657)
* Magdeburg (1680)
* Colonies
* Gold Coast
* Arguin
* St. Thomas

After 1701|

* Neuchâtel (1707)
* Guelders (1713)
* Minden-Ravensberg (1719)
* Western Pomerania (1720 / 1815)
* Silesia / Glatz (1742)
* East Frisia (1744)
* East / West Prussia (1772–73)
* South Prussia (1793)
* New East Prussia / New Silesia (1795)

Post-Congress of
Vienna (1814–15)

* Brandenburg
* Principality of Neuchâtel (1814–1848)
* Pomerania
* Grand Duchy of Posen1
* Saxony
* Silesia
* Westphalia
* Rhine Province2 (1822)
* Province of Prussia (1824–1878)
* Hohenzollern (1850)
* Schleswig-Holstein / Hanover / Hesse-Nassau (1866–68)

Territorial reforms
after 1918

* Lower / Upper Silesia (1919)
* Greater Berlin (1920)
* Posen-West Prussia (1922)
* Halle-Merseburg / Magdeburg / Kurhessen / Nassau (1944)

1 Became Province of Posen in 1848.   2 From the Lower Rhine and Jülich-Cleves-Berg.
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