Greater Hesse [SEP] dissolved or abolished
Greater Hesse
Greater Hesse () was the provisional name given for a section of German territory created by the US military administration in at the end of World War II. It was formed by the Allied Control Council on 19 September 1945 and became the modern German state of Hesse on 1 December 1946.
Formation.
Greater Hesse was formed from parts of two German states that were dissolved in the aftermath of World War II: 
- The part of the People's State of Hesse that lay east of the Rhine
, Prussia annexed to form part of the Province of Hesse-Nassau.
Following the end of World War II, Kurhessen fell under American administration. The province was dissolved by the occupying US forces on 19 September 1945 and formed part of the administrative zone of Greater Hesse. Just over a year later, Greater Hesse became the modern German state of Hesse.