State of Hanover

State of Hanover Land Hannover
State of Allied-occupied Germany
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Map of the State of Hanover within the British Zone of Occupation
Capital		Hanover
Government		Republic
Minister-President
•	1946	Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf
Historical era		Cold War
•	Established	23 August 1946
•	Disestablished	23 November 1946

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The State of Hanover (German: Land Hannover) was a short-lived state within the British zone of Allied-occupied Germany. It existed for 92 days in the course of the dissolution of the Free State of Prussia after World War II until the foundation of Lower Saxony in 1946. The state saw itself in the tradition of the former Kingdom of Hanover, annexed by Prussia in 1866, reflected in the Saxon Steed state emblem. After Lower Saxony was founded by merging Hanover with several smaller states, it would continue to use the Hanover emblems.

The State of Hanover covered the territory of the former Prussian Province of Hanover without those eastern parts that had become part of the Soviet occupation zone after World War II (Amt Neuhaus and the eastern part of Bleckede, Elbingerode and Ilfeld). It therefore included 85 percent of the present-day state of Lower Saxony.

After the Second World War the State of Hanover was founded under Ordinance No. 46 of the British military government dated 23 August 1946 "concerning the dissolution of the provinces of the former State of Prussia in the British zone and their recreation as independent states". Its first minister-president was the Social Democratic politician Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf.

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