Halle-Merseburg


The Province of Halle-Merseburg was a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1944–45. The provincial capital was the city Merseburg.
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

  8. Bitterfeld
  9. Delitzsch
  10. Eckartsberga
  11. Liebenwerda
  12. Mansfelder Gebirgskreis
  13. Mansfelder Seekreis
  14. Merseburg
  15. Querfurt
  16. Saalkreis
  17. Sangerhausen
  18. Schweinitz
  19. Torgau
  20. Weißenfels
  21. Wittenberg
  22. Zeitz