Halle-Merseburg

Halle-Merseburg Province of Prussia ← 1944–1945 → Capital Merseburg High President Joachim Albrecht Eggeling Historical era World War II  -  Established 1 April 1944  -  Disestablished 9 July 1945 Area  -  1933a 10,217.26 km2 (3,945 sq mi) Population  -  1933a 1,486,274  Density 145.5 /km2  (376.8 /sq mi) a. Within 1944/1945 borders.

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.

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.

Districts in 1945

Urban districts

1. Eisleben
2. Halle
3. Merseburg
4. Naumburg
5. Weißenfels
6. Lutherstadt Wittenberg
7. Zeitz

Rural districts

1. Bitterfeld
2. Delitzsch
3. Eckartsberga (seat: Kölleda)
4. Liebenwerda (seat: Bad Liebenwerda)
5. Mansfelder Gebirgskreis (seat: Mansfeld)
6. Mansfelder Seekreis (seat: Eisleben)
7. Merseburg
8. Querfurt
9. Saalkreis (seat: Halle)
10. Sangerhausen
11. Schweinitz (seat: Herzberg (Elster))
12. Torgau
13. Weißenfels
14. Wittenberg
15. Zeitz