The Wiesbaden Region (german: link=no, Regierungsbezirk Wiesbaden) was one of three administrative regions (along with Darmstadt Region and Kassel Region) from which the

state of Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...

was formed in 1945.

Regierungsbezirk (government region)

Following the Prussian annexations after the

Austro-Prussian War The Austro-Prussian War, also by many variant names such as Seven Weeks' War, German Civil War, Brothers War or Fraternal War, known in Germany as ("German War"), (; "German war of brothers") and by a variety of other names, was fought in 186 ...

of 1866, the administrative region of Wiesbaden was founded on February 22, 1867, comprising the formerly independent

Duchy of Nassau The Duchy of Nassau (German: ''Herzogtum Nassau'') was an independent state between 1806 and 1866, located in what is now the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Hesse. It was a member of the Confederation of the Rhine and later of the G ...

, the

Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg Hesse-Homburg was formed into a separate Landgrave, landgraviate in 1622 by the landgrave of Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, Hesse-Darmstadt; it was to be ruled by his son, although it did not become independent of Hesse-Darmstadt until 1668. It ...

and the formerly Free City of Frankfurt, previously states of the

German Confederation The German Confederation (german: Deutscher Bund, ) was an association of 39 predominantly German-speaking sovereign states in Central Europe. It was created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815 as a replacement of the former Holy Roman Empire, w ...

. The Wiesbaden Region was one of the two political subdivisions (along with Kassel Region) within the

province of Hesse-Nassau The Province of Hesse-Nassau () was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1868 to 1918, then a province of the Free State of Prussia until 1944. Hesse-Nassau was created as a consequence of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 by combining the p ...

(the

Prussian Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an e ...

province formed in 1868 including, besides the Wiesbaden Region, further the former

Electorate of Hesse The Electorate of Hesse (german: Kurfürstentum Hessen), also known as Hesse-Kassel or Kurhessen, was a landgraviate whose prince was given the right to elect the Emperor by Napoleon. When the Holy Roman Empire was abolished in 1806, its p ...

, previously another member of the German Confederation). In 1945 the northwestern part of region was dissected, when the Wiesbaden Region was divided between the American and the French zone of occupation in Germany. The bulk of region with the city of Wiesbaden continued to exist as a region within the new state of Hesse. The dissected northwest formed a new region, the Montabaur Region within Rhineland-Palatinate. In 1968, the region was dissolved, and its territory was merged in the Darmstadt Region.

Region presidents (Regierungspräsidenten)

* 1867–1869

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* 1869–1872 Botho Graf zu Eulenberg * 1872–1890

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* 1890–1897 Viktor von Tepper-Laski * 1898–1902

Richard Wentzel Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong ...

* 1902–1905

Wilhelm Hengstenberg Wilhelm may refer to: People and fictional characters * William Charles John Pitcher, costume designer known professionally as "Wilhelm" * Wilhelm (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname Other uses * Mount ...

* 1905–1919

Karl Wilhelm von Meister Karl Wilhelm von Meister (3 February 1863 – 14 February 1935) was a German politician and diplomat. Life and career Meister was born as the eldest son of Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Meister, one of the co-founders of Hoechst AG, and his wife Marie n ...

* 1919–1922 Willy Momm * 1923–1925

Konrad Haenisch Konrad Haenisch (13 March 1876 – 28 April 1925) was a German Social Democratic Party politician and part of "the radical Marxist Left" of German politics. He was a friend and follower (''Parvulus'' in his own words) of Alexander Parvus. Life ...

(

SPD The Social Democratic Party of Germany (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands, ; SPD, ) is a centre-left social democratic political party in Germany. It is one of the major parties of contemporary Germany. Saskia Esken has been t ...

) * 1925–1933

Fritz Ehrler Fritz originated as a German nickname for Friedrich, or Frederick (''Der Alte Fritz'', and ''Stary Fryc'' were common nicknames for King Frederick II of Prussia and Frederick III, German Emperor) as well as for similar names including Fridoli ...

(SPD) * 1933–1936 Werner Zschintsch (

NSDAP The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported t ...

) * 1936–1943 Fritz Pfeffer von Salomon (NSDAP) * 1943–1945 Otto Schwebel (NSDAP) * 1945 (1 May - 3 August)

Hans Bredow Hans Bredow (26 November 1879 – 9 January 1959) was a German radio broadcasting pioneer and the first chairman of Weimar Germany's National broadcasting service. He is regarded as the "father of German broadcasting". Biography Bredow was born ...

* 1945–1948 Martin Nischalke (SPD) * 1948–1956

Heinrich Noelle Heinrich may refer to: People * Heinrich (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) * Heinrich (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) *Hetty (given name), a given name (including a list of peo ...

* 1959–1963

Walter Schubert Walter may refer to: People * Walter (name), both a surname and a given name * Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–1968) * Gunther (wrestler), Austrian professional wrestler and trainer Walter Hahn (born 19 ...

* 1963–1968

Karl Wittrock Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austrian ...

(SPD)

Bezirksverband (regional association)

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retrieved on 2 August 2014. with its own representative assembly (Nassauischer Kommunallandtag Wiesbaden, i.e. Nassau Communal Diet, existed between 1866 and 1933) and premises provided and tasks fulfilled for the entirety of the counties within the region. These tasks comprised among others schools, traffic installations, sanitary premises, hospitals, cultural institutions, jails etc. The same was the case in the Kassel Region with an own assembly (Kurhessischer Kommunallanddtag Kassel). In most other Prussian provinces the tasks and rights of a Bezirksverband were fulfilled by the Provinzialverband (provincial association), comprising as members all the counties in a province instead of a region. The Nassau Communal Diet elected a regional government (first Verwaltungsausschuss, later Landesausschuss, i.e. administrative / land committee) presided over by the Landesdirektor (i.e. land director) or

Landeshauptmann Landeshauptmann (if male) or Landeshauptfrau (if female) (, "state captain", plural ''Landeshauptleute'') is the chairman of a state government and the supreme official of an Austrian state and the Italian autonomous provinces of South Tyrol an ...

(i.e. land captain). On 8 June 1885 the Kommunalständischer Verband Frankfurt (i.e. Communal Estate Association of Frankfurt), holding the same responsibilities in the territory of the former Free City of Frankfurt upon Main, was merged into the regional association of Wiesbaden. The same reform enfranchised the Nassau Communal Diet to elect representatives for the newly established provincial diet of the Province of Hesse-Nassau, first convened in 1886. In the course of the democratisation of the Prussian administration after 1918 the communal diets were directly elected by the people. After the abolition of the Nassau Communal Diet by the Nazi dictatorship each Landeshauptmann was appointed. After 1945 the administrative committees elected the Landeshauptmann, the regional parliament was not reestablished. In 1953 the Wiesbaden regional association was dissolved and its tasks and assets transferred to the new statewide

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(Landeswohlfahrtsverband Hessen).

Elections to the communal diets

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In 1933 the DNVP ran under the list KFSWR, also including ''

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Land director and land captains (Landesdirektor / Landeshauptmann)

*1873–1881:

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(1826–1895; Liberal Union), titled Landesdirektor *1881–1905: Otto Sartorius (1831–1911), titled Landeshauptmann *1905–1920:

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(1847–1921), titled Landeshauptmann *1920–1926:

Wilhelm Woell Wilhelm may refer to: People and fictional characters * William Charles John Pitcher, costume designer known professionally as "Wilhelm" * Wilhelm (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname Other uses * Mount ...

(1871–1926), titled Landeshauptmann *1926–1933:

Wilhelm Lutsch Wilhelm may refer to: People and fictional characters * William Charles John Pitcher, costume designer known professionally as "Wilhelm" * Wilhelm (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname Other uses * Mount ...

(1879–), titled Landeshauptmann *1933–1944:

Wilhelm Traupel Wilhelm may refer to: People and fictional characters * William Charles John Pitcher, costume designer known professionally as "Wilhelm" * Wilhelm (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname Other uses * Mount ...

(1891–1946;

), titled Landeshauptmann *1945:

Ernst Ludwig Leyser Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include: Surname * Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (1975-) ...

(1896–1973; NSDAP), titled Landeshauptmann *1946–1953: Otto Witte (1884–1963;

), titled Landeshauptmann

References

* Eckhart G. Franz, ''Die Chronik Hessens'', Dortmund: Chronik Verlag, 1991. * Karl Müller, ''Preußischer Adler und Hessischer Löwe – Hundert Jahre Wiesbadener Regierung 1866–1966'', Wiesbaden: 1966 * Andreas Anderhub, '' Verwaltung im Regierungsbezirk Wiesbaden 1866 - 1885'', Historische Kommission für Nassau (ed.), Wiesbaden: 1977

Notes

{{coord missing, Hesse Regions of Hesse 1866 establishments in Prussia Government regions of Prussia States and territories disestablished in 1968 Former government regions of Germany