Wiesbaden (region)

Following the Prussian annexations after the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, the administrative region of Wiesbaden was founded on February 22, 1867, comprising the formerly independent Duchy of Nassau, the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg and the formerly Free City of Frankfurt, previously states of the German Confederation.

These tasks comprised among others schools, traffic installations, sanitary premises, hospitals, cultural institutions, jails etc.

[1] In the course of the democratisation of the Prussian administration after 1918 the communal diets were directly elected by the people.

After the abolition of the Nassau Communal Diet by the Nazi dictatorship each Landeshauptmann was appointed.

After 1945 the administrative committees elected the Landeshauptmann, the regional parliament was not reestablished.