Provinces of Prussia - Prussia in The Weimar Republic

Prussia in The Weimar Republic

After the fall of the German Empire the Kingdom of Prussia was reconstituted with a republican government as the Free State of Prussia. It had to cede virtually all territory belonging to the provinces of Posen and West Prussia to the newly created state of Poland and the League of Nations mandate of the Free City of Danzig. Smaller areas had been ceded to Belgium (East Cantons, formerly Rhineland), Czechoslovakia (Hlučín Region, formerly Silesia), Denmark (South Jutland, formerly Schleswig-Holstein), the League of Nations mandate of the Memel Territory (formerly East Prussia), Poland (eastern Upper Silesia, formerly Prov. of Silesia), and the Mandatory Saar (League of Nations) (formerly Rhineland). Prussia and its provinces formally continued to exist even though political control was eventually taken over by the National Socialist German Workers Party following their rise to power in 1933. Both Prussia and Nazi Germany was finally dissolved following the end of World War II in 1945.

• Berlin (in 1920 the city was considerably extended (Prussian Greater Berlin Act) on the expense of Brandenburg)
• Brandenburg
• East Prussia
• Hanover (in 1921 Pyrmont, prior a district of the Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont, merged in)
• Hesse-Nassau (in 1929 the Free State of Waldeck, prior a German state of its own, merged in)
• Hohenzollern
• Lower Silesia (Part of Silesia between 1938 and 1941)
• Pomerania
• Posen-West Prussia (Created in 1922 from the parts of the provinces Posen and West Prussia that had not been ceded to Poland, the province was dissolved in 1938 with its territory being mainly incorporated into Pomerania, and two exclaves into Brandenburg and Silesia.)
• Rhine Province
• Saxony
• Schleswig-Holstein
• Upper Silesia (Part of Silesia between 1938 and 1941)
• Westphalia