People's State of Hesse [SEP] dissolved or abolished
People's State of Hesse
The People's State of Hesse () was the name of the German state of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1918 until 1945.
History.
After the end of World War I, the Grand Duchy of Hesse () became a republic and changed its name to the "People's State" (implying without monarchy rather than socialist). Its capital was Darmstadt. The state consisted of provinces Upper Hesse (, capital Gießen), Starkenburg (capital Darmstadt) and Rhenish Hesse (,
later settled in England changed that name to Mountbatten after World War I at the behest of George V, who substituted British peerages for their former German princely title. Those descended from the marriage of Alexander of Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria, contracted with a commoner after the loss of his throne, were granted the title Count von Hartenau.
Hesse-Kassel and its junior lines were annexed by Prussia in 1866. Hesse-Darmstadt became the People's State of Hesse when the monarchy was abolished in 1918. Hesse-Philippsthal