Crazy Boris
Banned
In 1945-1947 as States/Lander were being formed within the various occupation zones in Germany, the future Minister-President of the State of Hanover (formed in August 1946 and precursor to the State of Lower Saxony), Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf, had been suggesting (based off of a 1920s reform plan for the administration within the German Empire) from June 1945 through to April 1946 that a State of Lower Saxony be formed incorporating Hannover, Brunswick, Oldenburg, Schaumburg-Lippe (which are the areas that formed the current State/Land of Lower Saxony) as well as the former Prussian district of Minden-Ravensberg, the district of Tecklenburg and the state of Lippe. These latter territories ended up in what is now North Rhine-Westphalia, but had they been incorporated into Lower Saxony it would have looked like this:
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Dark Red - State of Hannover
Light Red - Brunswick, Oldenburg, and Schaumburg-Lippe later added to form Lower Saxony with the State of Hannover
Light purple - Minden-Ravensberg, Tecklenburg and Lippe
A counter-proposal by politicians from Oldenburg and Brunswick would have seen what is now Lower Saxony divided into roughly 3 equal states:
Weser-Ems (brown on the map below), Hannover (mustard on the map), and an enlarged Brunswick (gold on the map)
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I have to wonder, why was Bremen not included in these proposals? Was it just because it was in the US occupation zone instead of the UK occupation zone?