FIFTEENTH ARMY ZONE
GERMAN ADMINISTRATION DR FUCHS AS'LEADER (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, May 22. The establishment is announced of a German Government for the entire occupation- zone of the Fifteenth United States Army, covering an area of 14,000 square miles, with a prewar population of 11,000,000, with the capital at Bonn, states the Associated Press correspondent with the army’s headquarters. Major-general Lionel Gerow has selected as head of the administration Dr Hans Fuchs, a veteran of the first world war, who was prominent in the Catholic Centre Party and pre-Nazi Oberpresident of the Rhine province. The Rhine military district over which he will now preside is a 60 per cent, larger political unit than the Rhine province under the Weimar Republic. One of his Cabinet members will be Dr Karl Mueller, who has been given charge of food and agriculture. The Nazis imprisoned Mueller for two months in 1933 and removed him from his post in connection with food administration.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25852, 24 May 1945, Page 5
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