Mecklenburg (1945-1952)
| Land Mecklenburg Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1945-1947) |
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| President of the State Administration | ||||||
| • | 1945-1946 | Wilhelm Höcker | ||||
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| • | 1946-1951 | Wilhelm Höcker | ||||
| • | 1951 | Kurt Bürger | ||||
| • | 1951-1952 | Bernhard Quandt | ||||
| Legislature | Landtag | |||||
| Historical era |
Post-World War II Cold War |
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| • | Established | 9 July 1945 | ||||
| • | Declaration as state | 16 January 1947 | ||||
| • | State of East Germany | 7 October 1949 | ||||
| • | Disestablished | 25 July 1952 | ||||
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| • | 1946 | 23,402 km2(9,036 sq mi) | ||||
| Population | ||||||
| • | 1946 | 2,100,000 | ||||
| Density | 89.7 /km2 (232.4 /sq mi) | |||||
| Today part of |
 Brandenburg Lower Saxony Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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The State of Mecklenburg (German: Land Mecklenburg) was a subdivision of the Soviet occupation zone (until 1949) and state of East Germany (from 1949) which corresponds widely to the present-day German state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The state was originally formed as administrative division State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (German: Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) in July 1945. It consisted of the 1934 established Mecklenburg (a merger by the NSDAP-Gauleiter Friedrich Hildebrandt of the free states of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz) and parts of the former Prussian provinces of Pommern (Western Pomerania to the Oder-Neisse-Line) and Hanover (Amt Neuhaus). The city of Świnoujście was handed over in October 1945 to Poland (became part of Szczecin Voivodeship). In November 1945, a transfer of small territories along the Inner German border to the former Province of Schleswig-Holstein was carried out (Barber-Lyashchenko-Agreement). About 2.1 million people were estimated to live in Mecklenburg in 1946. From 1947, the term Vorpommern was excluded from the official name as the SMAD feared that this would support revisionist actions against the Polish parts (in particular Farther Pomerania). Compared to the administrative divisions of Nazi Germany, it comprised the Gaue Mecklenburg and parts of Pomerania and Eastern Hanover.
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