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Also Known As	Hessen-Darmstadt
Date	1567 - 1945

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East Germany East Berlin Swabia Franconia Magdeburg Hesse-Kassel Brandenburg Mecklenburg Palatinate Saxon duchies

Germany

Key People

Heinrich Gagern, detail from a lithograph by Johann Heinrich Hasselhorst, 1825

Heinrich, baron von Gagern

German politician

Ernest Louis

Ernest Louis

grand duke of Hesse-Darmstadt