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In 1946 the Control Commission for Germany - British Element (CCG/BE) reconstituted the Province of Hanover as the State of Hanover and later the same year it merged with three smaller neighbouring reconstituted German states to form the new state of Lower Saxony within the British Zone of Occupation.
The Hannover Messe started in 1947 in an undamaged factory building in Laatzen, south of Hanover, by an arrangement of the British military government in order to boost the economic advancement of post-war Germany.
On 28 November 1945, he was appointed Lord Mayor of Cologne by the British military government, an office which he held until 1948.
After that he worked as a driver for the British armed forces under the British military government in Delmenhorst, then in the British Zone of Occupation.