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Provinces of Prussia
Party abbreviations: DDP = Deutsche Demokratische Partei (German Democratic Party); DNVP = Deutschnationale Volkspartei (German National Party); DVP = Deutsche Volkspartei (German People's Party); NSDAP = Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (National Socialist German Worker's Party, Nazi fascist, German nationalist -only legal party 1934-1945, banned 1945); SPD = Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (Social Democratic Party of Germany);
Z = Zentrum (Center Party, catholic, centerist)
Note: Recorded here are the provinces of the kingdom, later state, of Prussia. All provinces are listed until the end of Prussian central government in Apr 1945. All state flags were banned 15 Sep 1935. The Allied Control Commission formally declared Prussia dissolved on
25 Feb 1947.
Brandenburg
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![[Brandenburg 1882-1935 (Prussia, Germany)]](de-pr-br.gif)
- 22 Oct 1882 - 15 Sep 1935
31 Jul 1947 Becomes a state.
Präsidenten der Kriegs- und Domänenkammern
17.. - 27 Oct 1806
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French military governor
27 Oct 1806 - 10 Dec 1808 ....
Präsidenten der Kurmärkischen Regierung
10 Dec 1808 - 1809
...
1809 - 30 Mar 1810
Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Philipp (b. 1774 - d. 1844)
Freiherr von Vincke
French Governors-general
3 Nov 1806 - 9 Aug 1807 Henri-Jacques-Guillaume
Clarke, (b. 1765 - d. 1818)
comte de Hunebourg
Aug 1807 - 1808
Victor, duc de Bellune
(b. 1764 - d. 1841)
Oberpräsidenten
1808 - 1810
Johann August Sack
(b. 1764 - d. 1831)
Regierungspräsidenten in Frankfurt/Oder
1810 - 1813
....
1813 - 25 May 1815
Friedrich Ludwig August von (b.
1770 - d. 1856)
Wissmann
Regierungspräsident in Potsdam
1810 - 25 May 1815
Magnus Friedrich Graf von
(b. 1773 - d. 1858)
Bassewitz
Civil governor des Landeszwischen Oder und Elbe
1813 - Feb 1814
Johann August Sack
(s.a.)
Oberpräsidenten
30 Apr 1815 - 1824
Georg Friedrich Christian von (b. 1765 -
d. 1828)
Heydebeck
(to 25 May 1815, Organisationskommissar)
1824 - 1842
Magnus Friedrich Graf von
(b. 1773 - d. 1858)
Bassewitz
1842 - 1848
August Friedrich Wilhelm Werner (b. 1792 - d. 1871)
von Meding
1848 - 1849
Erasmus Robert Freiherr von Patow (b. 1804 - d. 1890)
1849 - Aug 1850
August Hermann Klemens Freiherr (b. 1803 - d. 1872)
von Wolff, gen. Metternich (acting)
Aug 1850 - 1862
Eduard Heinrich von Flottwell (b. 1786 -
d. 1865)
1862 - 1862
Werner Ludolph Erdmann von Selchow (b. 1806 - d. 1884)
1862 - 1 Feb 1879
Gustav Wilhelm von Jagow
(b. 1813 - d. 1879)
1879 - 9 Jul 1899
Heinrich Karl Julius von Achenbach (b. 1829 - d. 1899)
1899 - 1905
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (b. 1856 -
d. 1921)
1905 - 1909
August Clemens Bodo Paul Wilhelm
von Trott zu Solz
(b. 1855 - d. 1938)
1909 - 1910
Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell (b. 1855 -
d. 1931)
1910 - 1914
Alfred Anton Robert von Conrad (b. 1852 - d. 1914)
1914 - 1917
Rudolf Wilhelm Graf von der (b.
1860 - d. 1930)
Schulenburg
1917 - Mar 1919
Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell (b. 1855 -
d. 1931)
Apr 1919 - 25 Mar 1933 Adolf Meier
(b. 1871 - d. 1963) DDP
25 Mar 1933 - 7 Aug 1936 Wilhelm Paul Richard Kube
(b. 1887 - d. 1943) NSDAP
(acting to 14 Apr 1933)
7 Aug 1936 - Apr 1945 Emil Stürtz
(b. 1892 - d. 1945) NSDAP
Apr 1945 - 4 Jul 1945 Vacant
Berlin
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![[Civil Flag 1913-1954 (Berlin, Germany)]](de_berl3.gif)
![[Berlin State Flag 1934-1954, East Berlin 1945-1956 (Germany)]](de_berl4.gif)
1 Oct 1920
Separated from Brandenburg; Greater Berlin (Gross-Berlin)
(de facto only to 5 Aug 1944).
Lord Mayors (Oberbürgermeister)
1
Sep 1912 - 25 Nov 1920 Adolph Wermuth
(b. 1855 - d. 1927)
20 Jan 1921 - 7 Nov 1929 Gustav August Johann Heinrich
(b. 1873 - d. 1946) DDP
Böss
7 Nov 1929 - 14 Apr 1931 Otto Wilhelm Arthur Scholtz
(b. 1871 - d. 1935) DVP
(acting)
14 Apr 1931 - 18 Dec 1935 Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm
Sahm (b. 1877 - d. 1939) Non-party
19 Dec 1935 - 5 Jan 1937 Oskar Maretzky (acting)
(b. 1881 - d. 1945) DVP
State presidents
5 Jan 1937 - Jul 1940 Julius Lippert
(b. 1895 - d. 1956) NSDAP
Jul 1940 - Feb 1945 Ludwig Steeg
(b. 1894 - d. 1945) NSDAP
Lord Mayor
Feb 1945 - 2 May 1945 Ludwig Steeg
(s.a.) NSDAP
State president (from 1 Feb 1945, Reichsverteidigungskommissar für den Gau Berlin)
1 Apr 1944 - 1 May 1945 Paul Joseph Goebbels
(b. 1897 - d. 1945) NSDAP
(from 1 Oct 1928, Gauleiter of Berlin)
East Prussia (Ostpreusssen)
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![[East Prussia (Prussia, Germany)]](de-pr-ep.gif)
- 22 Oct 1882 - 15 Sep 1935
(see under Poland).
22 Jan 1758 - Sep 1762 East Prussia occupied by Russia (24 Jan 1758 annexed
to Russia as the province of Prussia).
31 Jan 1773 Province of East Prussia created.
16 Jun 1807 - 9 Jul 1807 East Prussia occupied by France.
1812 - Jan 1813 East Prussia occupied by France.
3 Dec 1829 - 1 Apr 1878 United with Westpreussen as Prussia (Preussen).
15 Aug 1914 - Feb 1915 Partial Russian occupation.
10 Jan 1920 - 16 Aug 1920 Regions of Allenstein under Allied control (see below).
15 Aug 1941 - Aug 1944 The Bialystok district is "attached" (but not incorporated)
to East Prussia (see under Poland).
Jan 1945 Soviet forces crossed eastern boundary of East Prussia and
by Feb 1945 Germans were left with coastal areas.
19 Feb 1945 Southern zone which was transferred to the authority of the Polish
Provisional Government and was organized into the Provisional
Polish District of Königsberg (Okreg Krolewiec), which was
however soon renamed District of Warmia (Ermland) and Mazuria
(Okreg Warminsko-Mazurski).
9 Apr 1945 Königsberg occupied by the Soviet forces (Germans remain on
the Samland peninsula, west of Königsberg, to 25 Apr 1945).
Soviet military administration formally established.
Apr 1945 End of central Prussian government.
2 Aug 1945 Potsdam Conference provisionally (pending future peace treaty)
transfers northern part of East Prussia (including Königsberg)
to the Soviet Union (annexed 17 Oct 1945), southern part of
East Prussia (Allenstein) - to Poland (annexed 26 Dec 1945).
7 Apr 1946 Part of Russian S.F.S.R. (Königsberg Oblast).
4 Jul 1946 Renamed Kaliningrad oblast (see Russian RSFSR divisions).
25 Feb 1947 Allied Control Commission declares Prussia dissolved.
Swedish Governor of Pillau (in Fischhausen)
27 Jun 1626 - 1635
Aleksander von Essen
(b. 1595 - d. 1664)
(commander to May 1629)
(Russian) Governors-general of East Prussia
Jan 1758 - May 1758 Wilhelm
Graf Vermor
May 1758 - Jan 1761 Nikolaus
Freiherr von Korf
Jan 1761 - 1762
Vasily Ivanovich Suvorov
1762 - Jul 1762
Pyotr Ivanovich Panin
Jul 1762 - Sep 1762 Fyodor
Matveyevich Voyeykov
Oberpräsidenten
1762 - 1781 Johann Friedrich von Domhardt (b. 1712 - d. 1781)
1781 - 1791 ....
1791 - 6 Dec 1808
Friedrich Leopold Freiherr
(b. 1743 - d. 1815)
von Schrötter
6 Dec 1808 - 1810
Hans Jakob von Auerswald
(b. 1757 - d. 1833)
(1st time)
(governor of Province Ostpreussen und Litauen)
French Governors
4 Jun 1812 - 8 Jul 1812 Dirk, graaf van Hogendorp
(b. 1761 - d. 1822)
8 Jul 1812 - 17 Nov 1812 Louis-Henri Loison
(b. 1771 - d. 1816)
Präsidenten der Regierung
1811 - 1812
Hans David Ludwig Yorck von (b.
1759 - d. 1830)
Wartenburg (governor-general)
Dec 1812 - 181.
Heinrich Friedrich Karl Freiherr (b. 1757 - d. 1831)
von und zum Stein
(acting, then governor)
1814 - 30 Apr 1815
Hans Jakob von Auerswald
(s.a.)
Oberpräsidenten
30 Apr 1815 - 1824
Hans Jakob von Auerswald
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
1824 - 1842
Theodor Heinrich von Schön
(b. 1773 - d. 1856)
1842 - 1848
Carl Wilhelm Boetticher
(b. 1791 - d. 1868)
Mar 1848 - Jun 1848 Rudolf
Ludwig Cäsar von Auerswald (b. 1795 - d. 1866)
(1st time)
Jun 1848 - Sep 1848 Vacant
Sep 1848 - 1849
Rudolf Ludwig Cäsar von Auerswald (s.a.)
(2nd time)
1849 - 1850
Eduard Heinrich Flottwell (acting) (b. 1786 - d. 1865)
1850 - Aug 1868
Franz August Eichmann
(b. 1793 - d. 1879)
1869 - 1 Apr 1882
Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Georg von (b. 1807 - d. 1889)
Horn
1882 - 14 May 1891
Albrecht Heinrich Carl von
(b. 1835 - d. 1891)
Schlieckmann
1891 - Mar 1895
Udo Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (b. 1840 - d. 1910)
12 Mar 1895 - 30 May 1901 Wilhelm Otto Albrecht Graf von
(b. 1852 - d. 1901)
Bismarck-Schönhausen
1901 - 1903
Hugo Samuel Louis Erdmann Reginald (b. 1842 - d. 1904)
Freiherr von Richthofen
1903 - 1907
Friedrich Ludwig Elisa von Moltke (b. 1852 - d. 1927)
1907 - Aug 1914
Ludwig Hubert von Windheim
(b. 1857 - d. 1935)
1 Oct 1914 - 10 Aug 1916 Adolf Max Johannes Tortilowicz
(b. 1868 - d. 1944)
von Batocki-Friebe (1st time)
10 Aug 1916 - 21 Jan 1918 Friedrich Wilhelm Bernhard von
(b. 1866 - d. 1939)
Berg-Markienen
11 Feb 1918 - 30 Jun 1919 Adolf Max Johannes Tortilowicz
(s.a.)
von Batocki-Friebe (2nd time)
1 Jul 1919 - 16 Mar 1920 August Winnig
(b. 1878 - d. 1956) SPD
(acting to 1 Sep 1919)
(1919, Imperial and State Commissioner
for East and West Prussia)
16 Mar 1920 - Oct 1932 Ernst Siehr
(b. 1869 - d. 1945) DDP
Oct 1932 - May 1933 Wilhelm
Kutscher
(b. 1876 - d. 1962)
May 1933 - 9 Apr 1945 Erich Koch
(b. 1896 - d. 1986) NSDAP
Soviet supreme commanders
Jan 1945 - 18 Feb 1945 Ivan Danilovich
Chernyakhovsky (b. 1906 - d. 1945)
1945
Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Vasilevsky (b. 1895 - d. 1977)
1945 - 17 Oct 1945
Ivan Khristoforovch Bagramyan (b. 1897 -
d. 1982)
Polish government plenipotentiaries (in the south)
19 Feb 1945 - 30 Mar 1945 Jerzy Sztachelski
(b. 1911 - d. 1975)
30
Mar 1945 - 29 Dec 1945 Jakub Prawin
(b. 1901 - d. 1957)
Russian Commanders
15 Aug 1914 - 1915
Pavel Karlovich von Rennenkampf (b. 1854 - d. 1918)
(operating in the east)
1914
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Samsonov (b. 1859 -
d. 1914)
(operating in the south)
New East Prussia (Neuostpreussen)
30 Sep 1794
Occupied by Prussia, formerly part of Poland.
6 Jun 1796
Incorporated into Prussia (bordered by the Buga river in the
south and the Neman river in the east).
29 Aug 1807
Incorporated into the Duchy of Warsaw (see Poland).
Military governor
30 Sep 1794 - 6 Jun 1796 Johann Heinrich von Günther
(b. 1736 - d. 1803)
Directing minister
6 Jun 1796 - 29 Aug 1807 Friedrich Leopold Freiherr
von (b. 1743 - d. 1815)
Schrötter
Allenstein
10 Jan 1920
Separated from East Prussia and German authorities
withdrawn; under the Treaty of Versailles placed under the
authority of the Administration and Plebiscite Commission,
appointed by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers.
12 Feb 1920
Inter-Allied Control Commission for the plebiscite in Allenstein
takes over the administration.
11 Jul 1920
In a plebiscite 97.9% of the inhabitants vote in favor of
remaining in Germany.
16 Aug 1920
Restored to Prussia/Germany.
Jun 1945
Incorporated into Poland as Olsztyn.
Chairman of the Inter-Allied Control Commission
12 Feb 1920 - 20 Aug 1920 Sir Ernest Amelius Rennie (U.K.)
German Imperial Commissioner and Chairman of the Plebiscite Commission
10 Jan 1920 - 16 Aug 1920 Wilhelm Freiherr von Gayl
(b. 1879 - d. 1950)
Hannover
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![[Hanover (Prussia, Germany)]](de-ni-ha.gif)
- 22 Oct 1882 - 15 Sep 1935
Oberpräsidenten
1867 - 1873
Otto Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (b. 1837 - d. 1896)
1873 - 1873
Karl Heinrich von Boetticher (b. 1833
- d. 1907)
1873 - 1878
Botho Wend August Graf von
(b. 1831 - d. 1912)
Eulenburg
1878 - 1888
Adolf Hilmar von Leipziger
(b. 1825 - d. 1891)
1888 - 1897
Rudolf von Bennigsen
(b. 1824 - d. 1902)
1898 - 1902
Konstantin Graf zu Stolberg- (b. 1843
- d. 1905)
Wernigerode
1902 - 1914
Richard von Wentzel
(b. 1850 - d. 1916)
1914 - 1917
Ludwig Hubert von Windheim
(b. 1857 - d. 1935)
1 May 1917 - 1 Sep 1920 Ernst von Richter
(b. 1862 - d. 1935) DVP
1 Sep 1920 - 25
Mar 1933 Gustav Noske
(b. 1868 - d. 1946) SPD
1933 - 1933
Friedrich Carl Ludwig von Velsen (b. 1871 - d. 19..)
(acting)
1933 - 1941
Viktor Lutze
(b. 1890 - d. 1943) NSDAP
1941 - 1945
Hartmann Lauterbacher
(b. 1909 - d. 1988) NSDAP
Hessen-Nassau
![[Hessen-Nassau Province 1892-1935 (Prussia, Germany)]](de_h-n.gif)
3 Jun 1892 - 15 Sep 1935
7 Dec 1868
Province of Hessen-Nassau.
1 Jul 1944
Divided into Kurhessen and Nassau provinces
19 Sep 1945
Merged into state of Gross-Hessen.
Civil commissioner
20 Sep 1866 - 1 Oct 1867 Eduard von Moeller
(b. 1814 - d. 1880)
Oberpräsidenten
1 Oct 1867 - 1871
Eduard von Moeller
(s.a.)
1871 - 1872
.... (acting)
1872 - 1875
Ludwig Carl Christoph von
(b. 1811 - d. 1879)
Bodelschwingh
1876 - 1881
Carl Ludwig August Frieherr von (b. 1815 - d. 1889)
Ende
1881 - 1892
Botho Wend August Graf zu
(b. 1831 - d. 1912)
Eulenburg
1892 - 1898
Eduard Ludwig Karl Magdeburg (b. 1844
- d. 1932)
1898 - 1903
Robert Graf von Zedtlitz-
(b. 1837 - d. 1914)
Trützschler
1 Sep 1903 - 1907
Hubert Ludwig von Windheim
(b. 1857 - d. 1935)
1907 - 1917
Wilhelm Hengstenberg
(b. 1853 - d. 1927)
1917 - 1919
August Clemens Bodo Paul Wilhelm (b. 1855 - d. 1938)
von Trott zu Solz
1919 - 1930
Rudolf Schwander
(b. 1868 - d. 1950) DDP
1930 - Jul 1932
August Haas
(b. 1881 - d. 1945) SPD
1932 - 1933
Ernst von Hülsen
(b. 1875 - d. 1950)
7 Jun 1933 - 8 Sep 1943 Philipp von Hessen
(b. 1896 - d. 1980) NSDAP
8 Sep 1943 - 1 Apr 1944 Ernst Beckmann (acting) NSDAP
Kurhessen
Oberpräsidenten
1 Jul 1944 - 10 Apr 1945 Karl Gerland
(b. 1905 - d. 1945) NSDAP
10 Apr 1945 - 10 May 1945 .... (acting)
10 May 1945 - 19 Sep 1945 Fritz Hoch (acting)
(b. 1896 - d. 1984)
Nassau
Oberpräsident
1 Jul 1944 - Apr 1945 Jakob Sprenger
(b. 1884 - d. 1945) NSDAP
Regierungspräsidenten
24 Apr 1945 - 4 Aug 1945 Hans Karl August Friedrich
Bredow (b. 1879 - d. 1959)
(acting to 1 May 1945)
4 Aug 1945 - 19 Sep 1945 Martin Nischalke
(b. 1882 - d. 1962)
Jülich-Kleve-Berg
1815
Jülich-Kleve-Berg province
27 Jun 1822
Niederrhein and Jülich-Kleve-Berg united as Rhein
province.
Oberpräsidenten
Nov 1815 - Mar 1816 Johann
August Sack
(b. 1764 - d. 1831)
1816 - 24 Feb 1822
Friedrich Ludwig Christian Graf (b. 1769 - d. 1822)
von Solms-Laubach
24 Feb 1822 - 27 Jun 1822 Karl Heinrich Ludwig Frieherr
(b. 1753 - d. 1831)
von Ingersleben
Niederrhein
27 Jun 1822 Niederrhein and Jülich-Kleve-Berg united as Rhein province.
Oberpräsident
1816 - 27 Jun 1822
Karl Heinrich Ludwig Freiherr von (b. 1753 - d. 1831)
Ingersleben
Pomerania (Pommern)
![[Pomerania 1882-1935 (Prussia, Germany)]](de-mv-po.gif)
22 Oct 1882 - 15 Sep 1935
1170
Duchy of Pomerania (Herzogtum der Pommerellen) under Poland.
24 Oct 1648
Swedish possessions confirmed by the Treaty of Westpahlia
(West Pomerania, including Stettin, and the island of Rügen;
the archbishopric [but not the city] of Bremen and the
adjoining bishopric of Verden, Wismar, and the island of Pöl
(see Swedish Pomerania).
21 Jan 1720
Territory ceded to Prussia, Hanover and Denmark
(except Wismar, Rügen, and coastal area around Stralsund
which under Swedish rule).
1815
Ceded to Denmark by Sweden in exchange for Norway.
23 Oct 1815
Denmark cedes the territory to Prussia in exchange
for the Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg.
2 Aug 1945
Partitioned along the Oder; eastern part (Hinterpommern)
to Poland, western part (Vorpommern) to Germany.
Statthalter
1648 - 1706
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1706 - 1731
Albrecht Friedrich Markgraf von (b. 1672 - d. 1731)
Brandenburg-Schwedt
1731 - 17..
August Wilhelm von Preussen (b.
1722 - d. 1758)
17.. - 17..
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Präsidenten der Kriegs- und Domänenkammern
17.. - 1798
....
1798 - 1806
Karl Heinrich Ludwig Freiherr von
Ingersleben
(b. 1753 - d. 1831)
1806 - 1807
....
Jun 1807 - 1 Aug 1807 August von
Borgstede
(chief of administration of Neumark und Pommern)
1 Aug 1807 - 1808
Karl Justus Gruner
(b. 1777 - d. 1820)
(chief of civil administration)
Military governor
May 1807 - 11 Nov 1811 Gebhard Leberecht
von Blücher (b. 1742 - d. 1819)
Oberpräsidenten
1808 - 1810
Johann August Sack (1st time)
(governor of Neumark and Pommern)
French governors
7 Dec 1806 - 15 Apr 1807 Thouvenot
15 Apr 1807 - 12 Aug 1807 Jean-Jacques Liébert (b. 1758 - d. 1814)
1811 - Jun 1812 Dirk, graaf van Hogendorp
(b. 1761 - d. 1822)
Jul 1812 - 1812 Louis-Henri Loison
(b. 1771 - d. 1816)
Civil governors
1813 - 1814
Karl Friedrich von Beyme
(b. 1765 - d. 1838)
1814 - 25 May 1815
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Oberpräsidenten
25 May 1815 - Jan 1816 Karl Heinrich Ludwig
Freiherr von
Ingersleben
(s.a.)
10 May 1816 - 18 Jun 1831 Johann August Sack (2nd time)
20 Jul 1831 - Feb 1835 Moritz Haubold Freiherr
von (b. 1770 - d. 1860)
Schönberg
12 May 1835 - 28 Jan 1852 Wilhelm Friedrich Fürchtegott
von (b. 1786 - d. 1852)
Bonin
28 Jan 1852 - 12 Sep 1852 Vacant
12 Sep 1852 - 12 Oct 1866 Ernst Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf
(b. 1795 - d. 1882)
Freiherr Senfft von Pilsach
1 Jan 1867 - 21 Jul 1882 Ferdinand Karl Wilhelm August
(b. 1810 - d. 1882)
Freiherr von Münchhausen
26 Jan 1883 - 1891
Ulrich Karl August Wilhelm Hermann (b. 1826 - d. 1902)
Axel Graf von Behr-Negendank
3 Jul 1891 - Dec 1899 Robert Victor
von Puttkammer (b. 1828 - d. 1900)
1 Jan 1900 - 1911
Helmuth Freiherr von Maltzahn (b. 1840 -
d. 1923)
1 Nov 1911 - 1917
Wilhelm August Hans von Waldow- (b. 1856 - d. 1937)
Reitzenstein
Aug 1917 - 22 Mar 1918 Max Hermann Freiherr
von Ziller (b. 1867 - d. 1929)
1 Apr 1918 - 31 Mar 1919 Georg Michaelis
(b. 1857 - d. 1936)
1 Apr 1919 - 31 Mar 1930 Julius Lippmann
(b. 1864 - d. 1934) DDP
1 Apr 1930 - Oct 1933 Karl von Halfern
(b. 1873 - d. 1937) DVP
(acting to Jun 1930)
Oct 1933 - 21 Jul 1934 Rudolf zur Bonsen
(acting)
21 Jul 1934 - 4 May 1945 Franz Schwede-Coburg
(b. 1888 - d. 1966) NSDAP
Posen (Poznan)
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![[Posen 1886-1920 (Prussia, Germany)]](de-pr-po.gif)
20 Jun 1815
Incorporated into Prussia as Grand Duchy of Posen.
7 Feb 1849
Province of Posen (autonomy abolished).
28 Dec 1918
Occupied by Poland.
26 Oct 1939
Part of occupied Poland annexed as Reichsgau Posen.
2 Nov 1939
Renamed Wartheland.
1945
Re-incorporated into Poland.
Grand Dukes (Gross Herzog von Poznan)
20 Jun 1815 - 11 Nov 1918 the kings of Prussia
Governor
1815 - 1830
Antoni Henryk Fürst Radziwill von (b. 1775 - d. 1833)
Nieswiecz-Olyka
Oberpräsidenten
30 Apr 1815 - 1824
Joseph Zerboni di Sposetti
(b. 1760 - d. 1831)
1825 - 4 Oct 1830
Johann Friedrich Theodor
(b. 1768 - d. 1830)
(from 1828, von) Baumann
1830 - 1840
Eduard Heinrich Flottwell
(b. 1786 - d. 1865)
1840 - 1842
Adolf Heinrich Graf von Arnim- (b. 1803 - d. 1868)
Boitzenburg
1843 - 1850
Carl Moritz von Beurmann
(b. 1802 - d. 1870)
3 Aug 1850 - 1851
Gustav Carl Gisbert Heinrich (b. 1797
- d. 1878)
Wilhelm Gebhard von Bonin
(1st time)
10 Jul 1851 - 1860
Eugen von Puttkammer
(b. 1800 - d. 1874)
23 Apr 1860 - 1862
Gustav Carl Gisbert Heinrich (s.a.)
Wilhelm Gebhard von Bonin
(2nd time)
1862 - 1869
Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Georg von (b. 1807 - d. 1889)
Horn
1869 - 1873
Otto Graf von Königsmarck
(b. 1815 - d. 1889)
1873 - 1886
William Barstow von Guenther (b. 1815
- d. 1892)
1886 - 1890
Robert Graf von Zedtlitz-
(b. 1837 - d. 1914)
Trützschler
1890 - 1899
Hugo Theodor Wichardt Freiherr (b. 1840 - d. 1905)
von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
1899 - 1903
Karl Julius Rudolf von Bitter (b. 1846 -
d. 1914)
1903 - 1911
Wilhelm August Hans von Waldow- (b. 1856 - d. 1937)
Reitzenstein
1911 - 1914
Philipp Schwartzkopf
1914 - 1918
Johann Karl Friedrich Moritz (b. 1862
- d. 1942)
Ferdinand von Eisenhart-Rothe
South Prussia (Südpreussen)
24 Jan 1793
Occupied by Prussia; formerly part of Poland.
7 Apr 1793
Incorporated into Prussia.
29 Aug 1807
Incorporated into the Duchy of Warsaw (see Poland).
20 Jun 1815
Eastern part to Russia ("Congress" Poland); the western part
becomes the Prussian province of Posen (s.a.).
Military governor
24 Jan 1793 - 7 Apr 1793 Wichard Joachim Heinrich von
(b. 1734 - d. 1816)
Möllendorff
Directing ministers
7 Apr 1793 - 24 Sep 1794 Otto Karl Friedrich von Voss
(b. 1755 - d. 1823)
(1st time)
24 Sep 1793 - 22 Apr 1798 Karl Georg Heinrich Graf von Hoym
(b. 1739 - d. 1807)
23 Oct 1794 - 10 Mar 1798 Bucholtz (acting for von Hoym)
22 Apr 1798 - 29 Aug 1807 Otto Karl Friedrich von Voss
(s.a.)
(2nd time)
Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia
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![[Posen-West Prussia 1920-1935 (Prussia, Germany)]](de-pr-pw.gif)
- 9 Sep 1923 - 15 Sep 1935
from portions of Posen and West Prussia provinces
that were not annexed by Poland.
2 Sep 1938 Divided between Brandenburg, Pommern, and Schlesien.
2 Aug 1945 Incorporated into Poland.
Oberpräsidenten
21 Jul 1922 - 1933
Friedrich von Bülow
(b. 1868 - d. 1936) DVP
1 Apr 1933 - 5 Jul 1933 Hans von Meibom
(d. 1960)
5 Jul 1933 - 7 Aug 1936 Wilhelm Paul Richard
Kube (b. 1887 - d.
1943) NSDAP
7
Aug 1936 - 2 Sep 1938 Emil Stürtz
(b. 1892 - d. 1945) NSDAP
Wartheland
1 Nov 1939
Part of occupied Poland annexed as Reichsgau Posen.
194.
Renamed Wartheland.
1945
Re-incorporated into Poland.
Military governor
12 Sep 1939 - 25 Oct 1939 Alfred von Vollard-Bockelberg
(b. 1874 - d. 1945)
Reichsstatthalter
26 Oct 1939 - 23 Feb 1945 Arthur Greiser
(b. 1897 - d. 1946) NSDAP
(chief of civil government from 14 Oct 1939)
Rheinland (Rhein)
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![[Rhineland 1882-1935 (Prussia, Germany)]](de-pr-rh.gif)
- 22 Oct 1882 - 15 Sep 1935
18 Oct 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio de facto cedes Rhineland territories to
to France.
9 Feb 1801 Annexed to France.
30 Jun 1802 The Rhine departments become regular departments of France.
1813 - 1815 Allied occupation.
27 Jun 1822 Niederrhein and Jülich-Kleve-Berg united as Rhein province.
15 Jun 1945 Southern part merged into Rheinland-Hessen-Nassau.
19 Jul 1946 Northern part merged into Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Oberpräsidenten
27 Jun 1822 - 13 May 1831 Karl Heinrich Ludwig Frieherr von
(b. 1753 - d. 1831)
Ingersleben
1831 - 1834
Philipp von Pestel
(b. 1767 - d. 1835)
1834 - 1842
Ernst Albert Karl Wilhelm Ludwig (b. 1794 - d. 1854)
Frieherr von Bodelschwingh
1842 - 1845
Justus Wilhelm Eduard von Schaper (b. 1792 - d. 1868)
16 Jul 1845 - Sep 1848 Franz August Eichmann
(1st time) (b. 1793 - d. 1879)
Sep 1848 - 12 Nov 1848 Eduard von Moeller
(acting) (b. 1814 - d. 1880)
12 Nov 1848 - 31 Aug 1850 Franz August Eichmann (2nd time)
(s.a.)
1850 - 1851
Rudolf Ludwig Cäsar von Auerswald (b. 1795 - d. 1866)
Jul 1851 - 1858
Hans Hugo von Kleist-Retzow (b.
1814 - d. 1892)
1858 - 7 Dec 1871
Adolph von Pommer-Esche
(b. 1804 - d. 1871)
17 Jun 1872 - 1 Oct 1889 Moritz Heinrich Albrecht von
(b. 1814 - d. 1890)
Bardeleben
1889 - 1890
Hans Hermann Frieherr von
(b. 1843 - d. 1926)
Berlepsch
1890 - 1905
Berthold Johann Marcellus Edmund (b. 1831 - d. 1906)
Nasse
1905 - 1910
Clemens August Frieherr von (b.
1856 - d. 1922)
Schorlemer-Lieser
1910 - 1918
Georg Frieherr von Rheinbaben (b. 1855 -
d. 1921)
Apr 1918 - 10 May 1922 Rudolf Felix Joseph
von Groote (b. 1858 - d. 1922)
1922 - Mar 1933
Johannes "Hans" Fuchs
(b. 1874 - d. 1956) Z
Mar 1933 - 1935
Hermann Freiherr von Lüninck (b.
1893 - d. 1975)
1935 - 7 May 1945
Josef Antonius Heinrich Terboven (b. 1898 - d. 1945) NSDAP
Sigmaringen (Hohenzollern)
![[Hohenzollern Province 1882-1935 (Prussia, Germany)]](de-prhoh.gif)
22 Oct 1882 - 1 Sep 1935
7 Dec 1849
Principalities of Fürstentum Hohenzollern-Hechingen
and Fürstentum Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen agree to cede
sovereignty to the King of Prussia.
12 Mar 1850
Principalities incorporated into Prussia (part of Rhein province
[Regierungbezirk of Sigmaringen]).
13 Jul 1945
Merged with southern Wurtemberg into Südwürttemberg-
Hohenzollern (from 22 Jul 1947 Württemberg-Hohenzollern).
Regierungspräsidenten (presidents of government)
12 Mar 1850 - 6 Apr 1850 .... (commissioner)
6 Apr 1850 - 8 Aug 1851 Adolf Karl Freiherr von
(b. 1792 - d. 18..)
Spiegel-Borlinghausen
8 Aug 1851 - 13 Feb 1852 Anton von Sallwürk (acting)
13 Feb 1852 - 1854
Ludwig Viktor Graf von Ginocourt (d. 1881)
15 Apr 1854 - 26 Mar 1859 Rudolf von Sydow
(b. 1805 - d. 1872)
4 Apr 1859 - 1862
Karl Theodor Seydel
(b. 1812 - d. 1873)
May 1862 - Jun 1863 Johann
Hermann von Graaf (1st time)
(acting)
Jun 1863 - 1864
.... (acting)
1864 - 1873
Robert Ludwig Werner von Blumenthal
1873 - 10 Dec 1874
.... (acting)
10 Dec 1874 - 1 May 1886 Johann Hermann von Graaf (2nd
time)
1 May 1886 - 13 May 1887 .... (acting)
13 May 1887 - 12 Dec 1893 Gustav Adolph Freiherr Frank von
(d. 1893)
Fürstenwerth
12 Dec 1893 - 20 Apr 1894 .... (acting)
20 Apr 1894 - 1 Mar 1898 Franz Albert Maria von Schwartz
(d. 1907)
4 Mar 1898 - 16 Oct 1899 Karl Friedrich von Oertzen
(b. 1844?-d. 1914?)
16 Oct 1899 - 14 Nov 1899 .... (acting)
14 Nov 1899 - 30 Sep 1919 Maria Franz Leopold August Petrus
Hubertus Xaverius Graf von Bühl
1 Oct 1919 - 30 Apr 1926 Emil Belzer
(b. 1860 - d. 19..) Z
1 May 1926 - 31 Aug 1931 Alfons Scherer
1 Sep 1931 - Feb 1933 Heinrich Brand
Z
27 Feb 1933 - 31 Jul 1939 Carl Alfred Simons
NSDAP
1 Aug 1939 - 31 Jul 1940 .... (acting)
1 Aug 1940 - 31 Jul 1941 Hermann Darsen
(d. 1941) NSDAP
1 Aug 1941 - 30 Jan 1942 Piesbergen
NSDAP
30 Jan 1942 - 22 May 1945 Wilhelm Dreher (acting)
(b. 1892 - d. 19..) NSDAP
Sachsen (Saxony)
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5 Jun 1815 Allied administration, formerly part of kingdom of Saxony.
1 Apr 1816 Prussian province of Saxony.
1 Jul 1944 Divided into Magdeburg and Halle-Merseburg provinces.
23 Jul 1945 Magdeburg and Halle-Merseburg merged into the province
of Sachsen-Anhalt.
Allied Governor-general
5 Jun 1815 - 21 Jun 1815 Eberhard Friedrich Christoph
(b. 1744 - d. 1826)
Ludwig Freiherr von der Recke
Civil governor
21 Jun 1815 - 31 Mar 1816 Wilhelm Anton von Klewitz
(b. 1760 - d. 1838)
Oberpräsidenten
1 Apr 1816 - 1821
Friedrich Wilhelm August Werner (b. 1762 - d. 1827)
von Bülow
1821
Friedrich Christian Adolf von Motz (b. 1775 - d. 1830)
(1st time)
1821 - 1824
....
1824 - 1825
Friedrich Christian Adolf von Motz (s.a.)
(2nd time)
1825 - 1837
Wilhelm Anton von Klewitz
(b. 1760 - d. 1838)
1837 - 1838
....
1838 - 1840
Anton Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (b. 1785 - d. 1854)
1840 - 1844
Eduard Heinrich von Flottwell (b. 1786 -
d. 1865)
1844 - 1845
Wilhelm Felix Heinrich Magnus (b. 1801 -
d. 1866)
von Wedell
1845 - Sep 1848
Gustav Carl Gisbert Heinrich (b. 1797
- d. 1878)
Wilhelm Gebhard von Bonin
(1st time)
Sep 1848 - 1849
....
1849 - 1850
Gustav Carl Gisbert Heinrich (s.a.)
Wilhelm Gebhard von Bonin
(2nd time)
1850 - 1872
Hartmann Erasmus von Witzleben (b. 1805 - d. 1878)
1873 - 1881
Erasmus Robert Freiherr von Patow (b. 1804 - d. 1890)
1881 - 1890
Arthur Paul Ferdinand von Wolff (b. 1828 - d. 1898)
1890 - 1897
Albert Reinhold von Pommer-Esche (b. 1837 - d. 1903)
1898 - 1906
Karl Heinrich von Boetticher (b. 1833
- d. 1907)
1906 - 1908
Adolf Wilhelm Kurt Freiherr von (b. 1850 - d. 1941)
Wilmowski
1908 - 1917
Eduard Wilhelm von Hegel
(b. 1849 - d. 1925)
1917 - 1 Jul 1919
Rudolf Wilhelm Graf von der (b.
1860 - d. 1930)
Schulenburg
23 Feb 1920 - 1927
Friedrich Otto Hörsing
(b. 1874 - d. 1937) SPD
1927 - 1930
Heinrich Waentig
(b. 1870 - d. 1943) SPD
Jun
1930 - 21 Jul 1932 Carl Falck
(b. 1884 - d. 1947) DDP
1933 - 1933
Kurt Melcher
(b. 1881 - d. 1970)
1933 - 20 Jun 1934
Friedrich Carl Ludwig von Velsen (b. 1871 - d. 19..)
(acting)
1934 - 1 Jul 1944
Kurt Albert Paul von Ulrich (b.
1876 - d. 1946) NSDAP
Magdeburg
Oberpräsident
1 Jul 1944 - 1945
Rudolf Jordan
(b. 1902 - d. 1988) NSDAP
Halle-Merseburg
Oberpräsident
1 Jul 1944 - 1945
Joachim Albrecht Eggeling
(b. 1884 - d. 1945) NSDAP
Schlesien (Silesia)
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- 22 Oct 1882 - 14 Oct 1919
14 Oct 1919 Partitioned into Upper and Lower Silesia provinces.
10 Jan 1920 Hültschin annexed to Czechoslovakia.
12 Feb 1920 - 1921 Upper Silesia under Inter-Allied administration.
20 Oct 1921 Eastern parts of Upper Silesia ceded to Poland.
1 Apr 1938 Reunited into one province.
26 Oct 1939 Former Polish voivodship of Slaskie annexed.
27 Jan 1941 Divided again.
Präsidenten der Kriegs- und Domänenkammern
Jun 1742 - 17 Mar 1742 Ludwig Wilhelm Graf
von Münchow (b. 1712 - d. 1753)
+ Reinhard
Ministers
17 Mar 1742 - 1753
Ludwig Wilhelm Graf von Münchow (s.a.)
1753 - 1755
Joachim Ewald von Massow
(b. 1697 - d. 1769)
1755 - 1769
Ernst Wilhelm von Schlabrendorff (b. 1719 - d. 1769)
1769 - 22 Dec 1806
Karl Georg Heinrich Graf von Hoym (b. 1739 - d. 1807)
22 Dec 1806 - 1807
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Oberpräsidenten
1807 - 1813
E.G. von Massow
(civil general-commissioner to 1808)
1813 - 13 Mar 1813
Karl Freiherr von Altenstein (b. 1770
- d. 1840)
Civil governor
13 Mar 1813 - 31 Mar 1816 Friedrich Theodor Merckel
(b. 1775 - d. 1846)
Oberpräsidenten
1 Apr 1816 - 1820
Friedrich Theodor Merckel
(s.a.)
(1st time)
1820 - 1824
Richter (acting)
1824 - 1825
Moritz Haubold Freiherr von (b.
1770 - d. 1860)
Schönberg
1825 - 10 Jul 1825
Ludwig Friedrich Viktor Hans Graf (b. 1774 - d. 1825)
von Bülow
1825 - 16 May 1845
Friedrich Theodor (from 1828, von) (s.a.)
Merckel (2nd time)
1845 - 1848
Wilhelm Felix Heinrich Magnus von (b. 1801 - d. 1866)
Wedell
30 Mar 1848 - 20 Nov 1848 Julius Hermann Pinder
(b. 1805 - d. 1867)
1848
Hans Ludwig David Julius Theodor (b. 1805 - d. 1865)
Florian Graf York von Wartenburg
(acting)
1848 - 4 Jun 1869
Johann Eduard Christoph Freiherr (b. 1798 - d. 1869)
von Schleinitz
1869 - 8 Aug 1872
Eberhard Graf zu Stolberg-
(b. 1810 - d. 1872)
Wernigerode
1873 - 1874
Ferdinand Otto Freiherr von (b.
1816 - d. 1901)
Nordenflycht
1874 - 1877
Adolf Graf von Arnim-Boitzenburg (b. 1832 - d. 1887)
1877 - 1879
Robert Victor von Puttkamer (b.
1828 - d. 1900)
1879 - 1894
Otto Theodor von Seydewitz
(b. 1818 - d. 1898)
1894 - 1903
Hermann Fürst von Hatzfeldt- (b.
1848 - d. 1933)
Trachenberg
1903 - 1909
Robert Graf von Zedlitz-
(b. 1837 - d. 1914)
Trachenberg
1910
Johann Nikolaus Michael Louis von (b. 1855 - d. 1919)
Dallwitz
1910 - 31 Mar 1919
Hans Lauchlan von Guenther
(b. 1864 - d. 1934)
8 Apr 1919 - 14 Oct 1919 Felix Philipp
(b. 1868 - d. 19..)
1 Apr 1938 - 27 Feb 1941 Josef Wagner
(b. 1899 - d. 1945) NSDAP
Niederschlesien (Lower Silesia)
-
- 1920 - 15 Sep 1935
Oberpräsidenten
14 Oct 1919 - 25 May 1920 Felix Philipp
(b. 1868 - d. 19..) SPD
1920 - 1928
Hermann Zimmer
(b. 1867 - d. 1928) SPD
1 Sep 1928 - 1932
Hermann Lüdemann
(b. 1880 - d. 1959) SPD
Oct 1932 - Mar 1933
Friedrich Graf von Degenfeld- (b. 1878 -
d. 1969) DNVP
Schonburg
14 Jun 1933 - 26 Dec 1934 Helmuth Brückner
(b. 1896 - d. 1951?) NSDAP
(acting to 2 Aug 1933)
26 Dec 1934 - 1 Apr 1938 Josef Wagner
(b. 1899 - d. 1945) NSDAP
27 Jan 1941 - 5 May 1945 Karl Hanke
(b. 1903 - d. 1945) NSDAP
Oberschlesien (Upper Silesia)
-
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- 1 Jul 1926 - 15 Sep 1935
Oberpräsidenten
8 Nov 1919 - 1922
Joseph Bitta (acting)
(b. 1856 - d. 1932) Z
1923
- 1929
Alfons Proske
(b. 1881 - d. 1950) Z
1929 - 19 May 1933
Hans Lukaschek
(b. 1885 - d. 1960) Z
14 Jun 1933 - 26 Dec 1934
Helmuth Brückner
(b. 1896 - d. 1951?) NSDAP
(acting to 2 Aug 1933)
26 Dec 1934 - 1 Apr 1938 Josef Wagner
(b. 1899 - d. 1945) NSDAP
27 Jan 1941 - 1945
Fritz Bracht
(b. 1899 - d. 1945) NSDAP
President of Inter-Allied Commission of Government and Plebiscite
12 Feb 1920 - 1921
Henri-Louis-Edouard Le Rond (b.
1864 - d. 1919)
(France)
Schleswig-Holstein
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30 Oct 1864 Duchy of Schleswig ceded to Austria.
23 Aug 1866 Duchy of Schleswig ceded to Prussia.
10 Feb 1920 In Northern Schleswig 75% vote for reunification with Denmark.
14 Mar 1920 In Central Schleswig 80% vote to remain within Germany.
15 Jun 1920 Northern Schleswig ceded to Denmark.
23 Aug 1946 Organized as a state.
Civil Commissioners for Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg
7 Dec 1684 - 15 Sep 1865 Konstantin Freiherr von Zedlitz-
(b. 1821 - d.1889)
Neukirch (Prussia)
7 Dec 1864 - 23 Dec 1864 Carl Ramon Soter Freiherr
von (b. 1817 - d. 1890)
Lederer (Austria)
23 Dec 1864 - 15 Sep 1865 Anton Freiherr Halbhuber von
(b. 1809 - d. 1886)
Festwill (Austria)
Governor for Schleswig
15 Sep 1865 - 15 Jun 1866 Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel
(b. 1809 - d. 1885)
(Prussia)
President of the Schleswig government
15 Jun 1866 - 1 Oct 1868 Konstantin Freiherr von Zedlitz-
(s.a.)
Neukirch (Prussia)
Governor for Holstein
15 Sep 1865 - 12 Jun 1866 Ludwig Karl Wilhelm Freiherr von
(b. 1814 - d. 1874)
Gablenz (Austria)
Oberpräsident
12 Jun 1866 - 24 Jan 1867 Carl Theodor August Freiherr von
(b. 1811 - d. 1892)
Scheel-Plessen (Prussia)
Oberpräsidenten
24 Jan 1867 - 1879
Carl Theodor August Freiherr von (b. 1811 - d. 1892)
Scheel-Plessen
1879 - 1880
Carl Heinrich von Boetticher (b. 1833
- d. 1907)
1880 - 1896
Georg Franz Maximilian
(b. 1830 - d. 1901)
(from 1888, von) Steinmann
1897 - 1901
Ernst Matthias von Köller
(b. 1841 - d. 1928)
1901 - 1906
Adolf Wilhelm Kurt Frieherr von (b. 1850 - d. 1941)
Wilmowski
1906 - 1907
Kurt Ludwig Karl von Dewitz (b.
1847 - d. 1925)
1907 - 1914
Detlev Wilhelm Theodor von Bülow (b. 1854 - d. 1926)
1914 - 31 Dec 1918
Friedrich Ludwig Elisa von Moltke (b. 1852 - d. 1927)
10 Mar 1919 - 21 Jul 1932 Heinrich
Kürbis
(b. 1873 - d. 1951) SPD
Oct
1932 - 25 Mar 1933 Heinrich Thon
(b. 1872 - d. 1939)
25 Mar 1933 - May 1945 Heinrich Lohse
(b. 1896 - d. 1964) NSDAP
Chairman of Inter-Allied Plebescite Commission
1919 - 15 Jun 1920
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Westphalia (Westfalen)
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Oct 1813 Allied/Prussian occupation.
1 Aug 1816 Prussian province of Westpalia.
23 Aug 1946 Part of Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Allied General commissioner
Oct 1813 - 13 Nov 1813 Ludwig Friedrich
Wilhelm Philipp
Freiherr von Vincke
(b. 1774 - d. 1844)
Civil governor
13 Nov 1813 - 31 Jul 1816 Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm
Philipp (s.a.)
Vincke
Oberpräsidenten
1 Aug 1816 - 2 Dec 1844 Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm
Philipp (s.a.)
(from 1837, Freiherr von) Vincke
2 Dec 1844 - 27 May 1845 Justus Wilhelm Duvignon (acting)
(b. 1793 - d. 1866)
27 May 1845 - 15 Jul 1846 Justus Wilhelm Eduard von Schaper
(b. 1792 - d. 1868)
15 Jul 1846 - 21 Jul 1850 Eduard Heinrich Flottwell
(b. 1786 - d. 1865)
21 Jul 1850 - 8 May 1871 Franz Gerhard Xaver von Duesberg
(b. 1793 - d. 1872)
8 May 1871 - 2 Jun 1871 Franz Otto Gustav Albert
von
Manderode (acting)
(b. 1805 - d. 1871)
2 Jun 1871 - 2 Dec 1882 Friedrich Christian Hubert
von
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