and was transformed into the state of Brandenburg, with Potsdam becoming state capital. In 1949, the state of Brandenburg became part of East Germany and, along with the other states of Eastern Germany, in 1952 was dissolved and divided into administrative districts. Brandenburg's territory roughly corresponded with the districts of Potsdam, Frankfurt/Oder and Cottbus. In 1990, following German reunification, Brandenburg was re-established as a state of the Federal Republic of Germany. Administration The Prussian central government appointed for every province an Oberpräsident ("Upper President") carrying out central prerogatives on the provincial level and supervising the implementation of central policy on the lower levels of administration. Since 1875, with the strengthening of self-rule within the provinces, the urban and rural districts (Kreise) elected representatives for the provincial Landtage diets. These parliaments legislated within the competences transferred to the provinces. The provincial diet of Brandenburg elected a provincial executive body (government), the provincial committee (Provinzialausschuss), and a head of province, the Landesdirektor ("Land Director"). Upper Presidents of Brandenburg 1815–1824: Georg Friedrich Christian von Heydebreck (1765–1828) 1825–1840: Friedrich Magnus von Bassewitz (1773–1858) 1840–1842: vacancy 1842–1848: August Werner von Meding (1792–1871) 1848–1849: Robert von Patow (1804–1890), per pro 1849–1850: vacancy 1849–1850: August Hermann Klemens Freiherr Wolff von Metternich (1803–1872), per pro 1850–1858: Eduard Heinrich von Flottwell (1786–1865) 1859–1862: Eduard Heinrich von Flottwell (1786–1865) 1862: Werner Ludolph Erdmann von Selchow (1806–1884) 1862–1879: Gustav Wilhelm von Jagow (1813–1879) 1879–1899: Heinrich von Achenbach (1829–1899) 1899–1905: Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (1856–1921) 1905–1909: August von Trott zu Solz (1855–1938) 1909–1910: Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell (1855–1931) 1910–1914: Alfred von Conrad (1852–1914) 1914–1917: Rudolf von der Schulenburg (1860–1930) 1917–1919: Friedrich Wilhelm von Loebell (1855–1931) 1919–1933: Adolf Maier (1871–1963), DDP 1933–1936: Wilhelm Kube (1887–1943), NSDAP 1937–1945: Emil Stürtz (1892–1945), NSDAP, since 1936 per pro Land Directors of Brandenburg 1876–1896: Albert Erdmann Karl Gerhard von Levetzow (1827–1903), German Conservative Party 1896–1912: Otto Karl Gottlob von Manteuffel (1844–1913), German Conservative Party 1912–1930: Joachim von Winterfeldt-Menkin (1865–1945) 1930–1933: Hugo Swart (1885–1952) 1933–1944: Dietloff von Arnim (1876–1945), NSDAP Subdivisions From 1822 the province of Brandenburg was divided into two (governorates): Frankfurt and . Between 1816 and 1822 there was a third governorate – the – comprising the urban district of Berlin, the city of Charlottenburg and the municipalities of Gesundbrunnen, Lichtenberg, and Stralau. In 1822 the Berlin region merged into the Potsdam region. Regierungsbezirk Berlin Established in 1816 this governorate, an enclave in the Potsdam region,