Editorial Note
A Committee of Territorial Reorganization (sometimes referred to as the Boundary Commission) met at Mannheim on August 26–27 and agreed to recommend to the Ministers President of the three Western Zones of Occupation the merger of the three southwestern states of Baden, Wuerttemberg-Baden, and Wuerttemberg-Hohenzollern. At their meeting at Jagdschloss Niederwald (Ruedesheim) on August 31, the eleven Ministers President adopted the proposal of the Committee. No other boundary changes were recommended to or considered by the Ministers President.
Earlier in August, a Committee of Ten, appointed by the Ministers President of the three southwestern states, had conducted discussions regarding a possible union of the three states. Tentative agreement regarding such a merger was reached by the Committee at a meeting at Karlsruhe on August 24, but the agreement was not approved by the governments of the three states involved.