During Austro-Prussian War, the Kingdom of Hanover had attempted to maintain a neutral position, along with some other member states of the German Confederation. But after voting in favour of mobilising confederation troops against Prussia on 14 June 1866, Prussia saw this as a just cause for declaring war on Hanover and the Kingdom of Hanover was soon dissolved and annexed by Prussia. The private wealth of the dethroned Hanover royal family was then used by Bismarck to finance his continuing efforts against Ludwig II of Bavaria.

In 1946, the British military administration made the Province of Hanover the main part of the state of Lower Saxony - along with the states of Oldenburg, Brunswick, and Schaumburg-Lippe – with the city of Hanover as the capital of this new state.

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[edit] Presidents of the Province of Hanover

Otto Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode 1867-1873
Botho Wend August Graf zu Eulenburg 1873-1878
Adolf Hilmar von Leipziger 1878-1888
Rudolf von Bennigsen 1888-1897
Konstantin Graf zu Stolberg-Wernigerode 1898-1902
Richard von Wentzel 1902-1914
Ludwig Hubert von Windheim 1914-1917
Ernst von Richter (DVP) 1917-1920
Gustav Noske (SPD) 1920-1933
Viktor Lutze (NSDAP) 1933-1941
Hartmann Lauterbacher (NSDAP) 1941-1945
Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf (SPD) 1946

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Image:Flag of Preussen 1701-1918.jpg Provinces of Prussia

Kingdom of Prussia	1740: Silesia 1773: East Prussia \| West Prussia \| Netze District 1793: South Prussia 1795: New East Prussia \| New Silesia 1815: Brandenburg \| Jülich-Cleves-Berg \| Lower Rhine \| Pomerania \| Posen \| Saxony \| Westphalia 1822: Rhine Province 1829: Prussia 1850: Hohenzollern 1867: Hanover \| Hesse-Nassau \| Schleswig-Holstein
Free State of Prussia	1919: Lower Silesia \| Upper Silesia 1920: Berlin 1922: Posen-West Prussia