Free State of Anhalt

Free State of Anhalt
*Freistaat Anhalt*
Free State of Anhalt Freistaat Anhalt
State of Germany
1918–1945
	Flag Coat of arms
	Anthem
	Anhaltlied; "Song of Anhalt"
Capital	Dessau
Area
• Coordinates	51°50′N 12°15′E / 51.833°N 12.250°E
• 1925	2,314 km2 (893 sq mi)
Population
• 1925	351,045
Government
• Type	Wilhelm Loeper
• 1935–1937	Fritz Sauckel
• 1937–1945	Rudolf Jordan
Minister-President
• 1918–1919	Wolfgang Heine (first)
• 1919–1924	Heinrich Deist
• 1924–1924	Willy Knorr
• 1924–1932	Heinrich Deist
• 1932–1940	Alfred Freyberg
• 1940–1945	Rudolf Jordan (last)
Historical era	Interwar / World War II
• Established	12 November 1918
• Disestablished	23 July 1945
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Duchy of Anhalt
Saxony-Anhalt (1945-1952)

The Free State of Anhalt (

Social-Democratic Party of Germany

(SPD).

However, in May 1932, the

Nazi seizure of power at the Reich level in 1933, Anhalt, along with all other German states, had its Landtag abolished and its state sovereignty transferred to the Reich government by the "Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich" of 30 January 1934. Though the state itself was not formally abolished, it was superseded in administrative importance by the Nazi Party Gau Magdeburg-Anhalt

.

At the end of World War II, when Germany was divided into

reunification of Germany

.