Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic Papers, 1945, European Advisory Commission, Austria, Germany, Volume III

740.00)119 Control (Germany)/9–2245: Telegram

The United States Political Adviser for Germany (Murphy) to the Secretary of State

Frankfurt, September 22, 1945.
[Received September 22—12:30 p.m.]

62. USFET (United States Forces European Theater) has ordered the reorganization of the US western military district into two German states (Laender) to include respectively a Land Wurttemberg-Baden as already set up, and a new Land of “Greater Hessen”.⁹¹ See our despatch 519 June 30.⁹² Land Greater Hessen includes former Land Hessen and US portions of provinces of Kurhessen and Nassau. G–5 representative has announced that no city has yet been selected as capital of Land Greater Hessen but several possibilities are being studied. He also indicated that a civilian administrative president for the area will be named shortly.

Murphy

91. Text of Proclamation No. 2 by General Eisenhower, September 19, 1945, setting up the three states of Greater Hessen, Württemberg-Baden, and Bavaria, is printed in Pollock and Meisel, Germany Under Occupation, p. 119.
92. Conference of Berlin (Potsdam), vol. i, p. 474.