The Province of Halle-Merseburg (german: link=no, 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

Regierungsbezirk Merseburg A ' () means "governmental district" and is a type of administrative division in Germany. Four of sixteen ' ( states of Germany) are split into '. Beneath these are rural and urban districts. Saxony has ' (directorate districts) with more r ...

, an administrative region from the former

Province of Saxony The Province of Saxony (german: link=no, Provinz Sachsen), also known as Prussian Saxony () was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and later the Free State of Prussia from 1816 until 1944. Its capital was Magdeburg. It was formed by the merge ...

. The governor of the new province was

Joachim Albrecht Eggeling Joachim Albrecht Leo Eggeling (30 November 1884 – 15 April 1945) was the German Nazi ''Gauleiter'' of Halle-Merseburg and the ''Oberpräsident'' (High President) of the Province of Halle-Merseburg. He was also an SS-''Obergruppenführer''. ...

, 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

# Eisleben #

Halle Halle may refer to: Places Germany * Halle (Saale), also called Halle an der Saale, a city in Saxony-Anhalt ** Halle (region), a former administrative region in Saxony-Anhalt ** Bezirk Halle, a former administrative division of East Germany ** Hall ...

# Merseburg # Naumburg # Weißenfels # Lutherstadt Wittenberg # Zeitz

Rural districts

# Bitterfeld #

Delitzsch Delitzsch (; Slavic: ''delč'' or ''delcz'' for hill) is a town in Saxony in Germany, 20 km north of Leipzig and 30 km east of Halle (Saale). With 24,850 inhabitants at the end of 2015, it is the largest town in the district of Nordsach ...

# Eckartsberga (seat:

Kölleda Kölleda (until 1927 Cölleda) is a small rural town in Thuringia. The municipality belongs to the district of Sömmerda and is located about ten kilometres east of the district town of Sömmerda on the edge of the Thuringian Basin. It is the thi ...

) #

Liebenwerda Bad Liebenwerda () is a spa town in the Elbe-Elster district, in southwestern Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated on the river Schwarze Elster, 57 km northwest of Dresden, and 28 km east of Torgau. History The first written mention is ...

(seat: Bad Liebenwerda) # Mansfelder Gebirgskreis (seat: Mansfeld) # Mansfelder Seekreis (seat: Eisleben) # Merseburg # Querfurt # Saalkreis (seat:

) # Sangerhausen # Schweinitz (seat: Herzberg) # Torgau # Weißenfels # Wittenberg # Zeitz {{coord missing, Germany 1944 establishments in Germany States and territories established in 1944 1945 disestablishments in Germany States and territories disestablished in 1945 Provinces of Prussia Former states and territories of Saxony-Anhalt Halle (Saale) Merseburg