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Province of Kurhessen Provinz Kurhessen (German)
Province of Prussia
1944–1945
The Province of Kurhessen in 1944.
Capital	Kassel
Area
• 1944	9,200 km2 (3,600 sq mi)
Population
• 1944	971,887
Government
• Type	Province
High President
• 1944–1945	Karl Gerland
Historical era	World War II
• Established	1 July 1944
• Disestablished	19 September 1945
Preceded by Succeeded by Hesse-Nassau Greater Hesse

The Province of Kurhessen (German: Provinz Kurhessen) or Electoral Hesse was a province of Prussia within Nazi Germany between 1944 and 1945.^[1]

Although all German states, including Prussia, had de facto been dissolved since 1933, the Nazi government formally partitioned the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau into two provinces effective with a decree issued on 1 April 1944 and effective on 1 July 1944. The two new provinces were the province of Kurhessen and the Province of Nassau.

Following the end of World War II, Kurhessen fell under American administration. The province was dissolved by the occupying US forces on 19 September 1945 and formed part of the administrative zone of Greater Hesse. Just over a year later, Greater Hesse became the modern German state of Hesse.^[2]

Etymologyedit

The name Kurhessen comes from the former Electorate of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel; 1803–1866) which, following the Austro-Prussian War, Prussia annexed to form part of the Province of Hesse-Nassau. This is also where its anglicized name Electoral Hesse comes from.

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