Province of Halle-Merseburg

This article is about the Prussian province. For the Third Reich's Gau, see Gau Halle-Merseburg.

The Province of Halle-Merseburg (German: Provinz Halle-Merseburg) was a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1944 to 1945. The provincial capital was the city Merseburg.

Province of Halle-Merseburg Provinz Halle-Merseburg (German)
Province of Prussia
1944–1945
The Province of Halle-Merseburg in 1944.
Capital	Merseburg
Area
• 1933a	10,217.26 km2 (3,944.91 sq mi)
Population
• 1933a	1.486.274
Government
• Type	Province
High President
• 1944–1945	Joachim A. Eggeling
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.

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)
12. Torgau
13. Weißenfels
14. Wittenberg
15. Zeitz