Category:People from the Province of Hesse-Nassau

The Province of Hesse-Nassau (German: Provinz Hessen-Nassau) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1868 to 1944 (North German Confederation, German Empire, German Reich). The province was created in 1868 from the states of Electoral Hesse (Kurhessen) and Nassau, which were annexed by Prussia in 1866 (after the German War of Brothers), the former Hessen-Homburg and the districts of Biedenkopf (Hessian hinterland) and Vöhl of the Grand Duchy of Hesse, the Free City of Frankfurt and the Bavarian districts of Gersfeld and Orb. It comprised the northern and central part of today's state of Hesse, in which Upper Hesse, a province of the Grand Duchy of Hesse (Hessen-Darmstadt), was embedded as an enclave. Hesse-Nassau also included parts of today's states of Rhineland-Palatinate, Lower Saxony and Thuringia. The province existed until the end of June 1944. The largest cities were Frankfurt am Main, the provincial capital Kassel and Wiesbaden. On 1 July 1944, the Province of Hesse-Nassau was divided into the new provinces of Kurhessen and Nassau, based on the Reich Defense Districts and the Gaue of the NSDAP. The district of Herrschaft Schmalkalden in the province of Kurhessen was transferred to the Erfurt administrative district, and the urban district of Hanau as well as the districts of Hanau, Gelnhausen and Schlüchtern were transferred to the new Province of Nassau. On 19 September 1945, after the end of World War II, these two provinces were re-merged and combined with most of the neighbouring People's State of Hesse to form Greater Hesse, which became the modern state of Hesse in 1946. Parts of Nassau were also moved into the Rhineland-Palatinate.