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| State of Hanover Land Hannover | |||||||||
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| State of Allied-occupied Germany | |||||||||
| 1946 | |||||||||
.svg) Flag | |||||||||
 Map of the State of Hanover, coloured red, within the British Zone of Occupation | |||||||||
| Capital | Hanover | ||||||||
| Government | |||||||||
| • Type | Republic | ||||||||
| Minister-President | |||||||||
• 1946 | Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf | ||||||||
| Historical era | Cold War | ||||||||
• Established | 23 August 1946 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 23 November 1946 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Germany | ||||||||
The State of Hanover (German: Land Hannover) was a short-lived state within the British Zone of Allied-occupied Germany. It existed for 92 days in the course of the dissolution of the Free State of Prussia after World War II until the foundation of Lower Saxony in 1946. The state saw itself in the tradition of the former Kingdom of Hanover, annexed by Prussia in 1866, reflected in the Saxon Steed state emblem. After Lower Saxony was founded by merging Hanover with several smaller states, it continued to use the Hanover emblems.