Hesse (State)
50 40 '01 "N 8 35' 29" E / 50.6669, 8.59131
| Land Hessen (Hesse) | |||||
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 Location of the Hesse (dark green) within Germany | |||||
| Administration | |||||
| Country |  Germany | ||||
| Capital | Wiesbaden | ||||
| Minister-President | Volker Bouffier ( CDU ) | ||||
| Party (or parties) | CDU , FDP | ||||
| Diet : CDU : SPD : FDP : A90/Verts : Die Linke : Total: | 46 29 20 17 6 118 | ||||
| Number of votes in the Bundesrat | 5 | ||||
| Statistical data | |||||
| Area | 21 114.94 km ( 7th ) | ||||
| Population (31/12/06) | 6,075,359 inhab. ( 5th ) | ||||
| Density | 287.73 inhabitants / km ( 7th ) | ||||
| GDP (2006) | 204.282 billion ( 4th ) | ||||
| GDP per capita. | 33 600 ( 3 ) | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| ISO 3166-2 | DE-HE | ||||
| Official site | hessen.de | ||||
The Hesse Germany ) is one of 16 federal states comprising the German.
The capital is Wiesbaden , the largest city is Frankfurt am Main.
Summary |
Located in west central Germany, Hesse borders on the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia , Lower Saxony , Thuringia , Bavaria , Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate (clockwise from north-west).
The major cities of Hesse:
- Frankfurt am Main , Wiesbaden , Darmstadt , Offenbach, Hanau , Gieen , Wetzlar and Limburg in the greater Rhine-Main region ,
- Fulda in the east,
- Kassel and Marburg in the north.
The largest rivers are the Fulda , the Lahn , the Main and Rhine.
The landscape is hilly, with numerous mountain ranges, like the Rhn , the Westerwald , the Taunus , the Vogelsberg , the Knll and Spessart.
The population is concentrated in the southern part of Hesse in the Rhine-Main region.
The Rhine forms the border on the south-west without crossing the state, except an old branch, called Alt-Rhein.
The mountain range between the Main and the Neckar River is called the Odenwald. Ried is the plain between the river Main, Rhine and Neckar, and the reliefs of the Odenwald.
Economy
The Rhine-Main region, with the Ruhr , has the highest density of industries in Germany. The chemical and pharmaceutical industries, of great economic importance, for example, are Sanofi-Aventis , Merck KGaA , Heraeus , Messer Griesheim and the former Degussa. Also machinery and transportation equipment (especially Opel in Rsselsheim) and banks (including Frankfurt), as the sieges of the Deutsche Bank , the Dresdner Bank and Commerzbank , but branches of foreign banks in many countries around the globe, Deutsche Brse , insurance (mainly in Wiesbaden), as the DBV-Winterthur, SparkassenVersicherung and Delta Lloyd. Business services of all kinds. The leather industry in Offenbach and Frankfurt Airport. Apart from the Rhein-Main ago Wetzlar with a precision optical center ( Leica ) Buderus , Fulda, its rubber (tires) in the north Baunatal ( VW ), and the construction of railways Cassel.
Hesse, Biblis is one of NPPs in Germany with two distinct blocks.
In May 2008, Hesse had 204,421 unemployed. The unemployment rate amounts to 6.6% (May 2007: 7.7%). The GDP of Hesse is 216 billion euros, or about 35,500 euros per capita. Thus, it is the land the most prosperous of Germany behind the "City states" from Hamburg and Bremen.
Politics and administration
The voters elect the Hesse state parliament , the provincial parliament, which has 118 members. The CDU lost in January 2008 the absolute majority it had held since 2003. Due to the entry of the party Die Linke in parliament, no coalition could be found and the previous government of the CDU remained in power, albeit a minority.
New elections in January 2009, attempting to address this precarious situation, and giving back to the CDU a wide lead over other parties, the SPD emerged as the big loser of the election. The majority of the Diet, is then held by the conservative CDU and the liberal FDP. Great loss for the SPD, the vote allows Roland Koch of Hesse reassert itself, having nearly lost his post as Minister-President in January 2008. The Left, meanwhile, has confirmed its entry into the state parliament.
The Minister-President (German Ministerprsident) is the leader in Hesse (He is elected by the provincial parliament.) of the Land Government.
Minister-President since 1945
- 16 October 1945-1946: Karl Geiler
- 20 Dec. 1946-1950: Christian Stock , SPD
- December 14 1950 to 1969: Georg August Zinn , SPD
- October 3 1969 to 1976: Albert Osswald , SPD
- 12 October 1976-1987: Holger Brner , SPD
- 23 April 1987-1991: Walter Wallmann , CDU
- April 5 1991-1999: Hans Eichel , SPD
- April 7 1999 to 2010: Roland Koch , CDU
- since August 31, 2010: Volker Bouffier , CDU
Major cities
List of cities in Hesse, with their population at 31/12/2008
| The 28 largest cities in Hesse: | ||
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Other cities
- Borken (Hessen Land)
- Eiterfeld
- Friedberg
- Fritzlar
- Hofgeismar
- Schwalmstadt
- Solms
- Wanfried
- Weimar (Lahn)
History
see: Grand Duchy of Hesse and Hesse Electoral
The current Land was formed on 1 December 1946, with the territories after the Second World War by the Allied Control Council September 19, 1945, the American occupation zone , and designated by the term " Great Hesse "(in German : Gro-Hessen).
Emblem and weapons
The Land of Hesse, as such, does not have arms that were his own. He simply guided for its weapons, weapons that were those of the Grand Duchy of Hesse before 1918, to transform the way, by retracting the golden sword held in front right leg and " crowning "the shield in a manner which is not very consistent with the rules of heraldry.
See emblems of the Land of Hesse
Administrative Subdivisions
Hesse is divided into 3 districts (Regierungsbezirke) Kassel, Gieen and Darmstadt. The district chairman (Regierungsprsident) is appointed by the state government.
In Hesse there are 21 rural districts (Kreise) comprising 426 communes (Gemeinden) including 189 cities (Stdte) and 5-city districts (Kreisfreie Stdte).
Districts (Regierungsbezirke)
| Districts | Capital | Area | Population (September 2007) |
| District of Darmstadt | Darmstadt | 7 444.88 km | 3 778 689 |
| Gieen district | Gieen | 381.18 km 5 | 1 053 749 |
| District Cassel | Cassel | 288.92 km 8 | 1 240 279 |
 District of Darmstadt |  Gieen district |  District Cassel |
Districts (Landkreis) and Cities districts (Kreisfreie Stdte)
The 5 -city districts (Kreisfreie Stdte) of Hesse:
- DA: Darmstadt
- F: Frankfurt am Main
- KS: Cassel
- OF: Offenbach am Main
- WI: Wiesbaden
| The 21 districts (Landkreis) of Hesse: | ||
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See also
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