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The Province of Posen (German: Provinz Posen; Polish: Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1848 to 1920, occupying most of the historical Greater Poland.
Prussia's Germanisation policies in the Province of Posen ended with the fall of the German Empire as most of territories taken from Poland were returned to Polish rule after World War One.
Apr 12, 2024 · Guide to Posen, German Empire ancestry, family history, and genealogy before 1945: birth records, marriage records, death records, both church and civil registration, compiled family history, and finding aids.
The Kingdom of Prussia (German: Königreich Preußen, pronounced [ˈkøːnɪkʁaɪç ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ⓘ) constituted the German state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918. It was the driving force behind the unification of Germany in 1866 and was the leading state of the German Empire until its dissolution in 1918.
The Province of Posen ( German: Provinz Posen; Polish: Prowincja Poznańska) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1848 to 1920, occupying most of the historical Greater Poland.
The northern end of Posen was annexed by Germany in the first partitioning of Poland in 1772 and the southern end of Posen was acquired in the second partitioning in 1793. Napoleon briefly gave Posen back to Poland in 1807, but the Congress of Vienna returned it to Prussia.
Posen was established as a province of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1848 after the Greater Poland Uprising, converted from the Grand Duchy of Posen annexed by Prussia in the Polish partitions of 1815, and became part of the German Empire in 1871.
