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People's State of Hesse

People's State of Hesse
Volksstaat Hessen
State of Germany

1918–1945
 

Flag Coat of arms
Flag (until 1933) Coat of arms (Otto Hupp, 1920)
Anthem
Hessenlied
Location of Hesse
Hesse (red) within Germany at the time of the Weimar Republic.
Capital Darmstadt
49°52′N 8°39′E / 49.867°N 8.650°E / 49.867; 8.650Coordinates: 49°52′N 8°39′E / 49.867°N 8.650°E / 49.867; 8.650
Government Republic
President
 •  1919–1928 Carl Ulrich
 •  1935–1945 Jakob Sprenger
Historical era Interwar · World War II
 •  German Revolution 9 November 1918
 •  Constitution 12 December 1919
 •  Disestablished 19 September 1945
Area
 •  1925 7,692 km2(2,970 sq mi)
Population
 •  1925 1,347,279 
Density 175.2 /km2  (453.6 /sq mi)

The People's State of Hesse (German: Volksstaat Hessen) was the name of the German state of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1918 until 1945.

After the end of World War I, the Grand Duchy of Hesse (German: Großherzogtum Hessen) became a republic and changed its name to the "People's State" (implying without monarchy rather than socialist). Its capital was Darmstadt. The state consisted of provinces Upper Hesse (German: Oberhessen, capital Gießen), Starkenburg (capital Darmstadt) and Rhenish Hesse (German: Rheinhessen, capital Mainz).

The area of the state was 7,692 km²; it had 1,347,279 inhabitants. Around two-thirds professed Protestantism, the other third Roman Catholicism.

In accordance with the Treaty of Versailles, approximately 40% of the state's territory (in particular, Rhine Hesse and part of Starkenburg) was occupied by the French Army until June 30, 1930.

After the end of World War II, Oberhessen and Starkenburg formed part of the American occupation zone, while Rhenish Hesse, on the left bank of the Rhine, fell within the French occupation zone. On September 19, 1945, American administrators created the new state of Greater Hesse (German: Groß-Hessen) from the Prussian provinces of Hesse and Nassau and from Frankfurt am Main. Greater Hesse was renamed Hesse on December 1, 1946, and later became one of the federal states of West Germany.


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