Halle-Merseburg

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Province of Halle-Merseburg Provinz Halle-Merseburg
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	1486274
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.

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.

Halle-Merseburg was created on 1 July 1944, out of , 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[]

3. (seat: Kölleda)
4. (seat: Bad Liebenwerda)
5. (seat: Mansfeld)
6. (seat: Eisleben)
9. Saalkreis (seat: Halle)
10. Sangerhausen
11. (seat: Herzberg)
13. Weißenfels
14. Wittenberg