Passed by the government of Nazi Germany on 26 January 1937
Territorial expansion of Hamburg after the Greater Hamburg Act (1937): former City of Hamburg former City of Bergedorf (to Hamburg since 1868) areas previously belonging to Hamburg and remaining to Hamburg Incorporated City of Altona Incorporated City of Wandsbek Incorporated City of Harburg-Wilhelmsburg Incorporated rural communities
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The Greater Hamburg Act (German: Groß-Hamburg-Gesetz), in full the Law Regarding Greater Hamburg and Other Territorial Readjustments (German: Gesetz über Groß-Hamburg und andere Gebietsbereinigungen), was passed by the government of Nazi Germany on 26 January 1937, and mandated the exchange of territories between Hamburg and the Free State of Prussia. It became effective on 1 April 1937[1]
^, with the exception of paragraph 2 (unifying Hamburg to a single Gemeinde) which, according to paragraph 15, had to be put into effect separately at a date determined by the minister of the interior no later than 1 April 1938, and with the exception of paragraph 10, which became effective immediately.
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Landesregierung (Leader of the State Government). Effective 1 April 1937, the "GreaterHamburgAct" (26 January 1937) greatly extended the city boundaries to incorporate...
the border between the German states of Berlin and Brandenburg. GreaterHamburgAct "1920: A Crisis Year". Unvollendete Metropole. Retrieved 7 September...
done through the GreaterHamburgAct of 1937, when the cities Altona, Harburg, and Wandsbek were merged into the state of Hamburg. The Act of the Constitution...
to the Gesetz über Groß-Hamburg und andere Gebietsbereinigungen (GreaterHamburgAct) (from 26 January 1937), the State Hamburg lost all its rural areas...
The Hamburg Uprising (German: Hamburger Aufstand) was a communist insurrection that occurred in Hamburg in Weimar Germany on 23 October 1923. A militant...
Göring as Prussian prime minister. As provided for in the "GreaterHamburgAct" ("Groß-Hamburg-Gesetz"), certain exchanges of territory took place. Prussia...
united with neighbouring Mecklenburg-Strelitz; and, by the GreaterHamburgAct (Groß-Hamburg-Gesetz) of 1937, the territory of the city-state was extended...
and the corresponding law was presented on 2 September. Greater Berlin ActGreaterHamburgAct "Vienna". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 30 April 2019...
into the by far larger Hamburg by way of the GreaterHamburgAct of 1937. In 1697 the freedom of religious practice which Hamburg's Sephardic congregation...
Nazi regime. The GreaterHamburgAct of 1937 transferred some territory from the provinces of Hanover and Schleswig-Holstein to Hamburg while at the same...
fully integrated into the Prussian Province of Hanover under the GreaterHamburgAct. The effect of this Nazi-era change was that in 1946, after the Third...
foundation, in the Free State of Brunswick, the Free and Hanseatic Cities of Hamburg and Lübeck and the Prussian Province of Hanover. For a list of today's...
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