American occupation zone in Germany

The American occupation zone or American Zone of Occupation was one of the four occupation zones, which Germany after the Second World War by the Allied victors in July 1945 was divided.

In 1945 and 1946 the old German management structure was replaced by the states Bavaria , Baden-Wuerttemberg , Hesse and Bremen . The state of Baden-Württemberg was merged in 1952 with the states in the French occupation zone Baden and Württemberg-Hohenzollern to the state of Baden-Wurttemberg .

On December 2nd 1946 signed the British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and his American colleague James F. Byrnes in New York a treaty that the British and American area merged into Bizone. On 1 January 1947, the treaty came into force. From August 1948 France also worked with and created the Trizone that on 23 May 1949 passed in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Eisenhower and Clay in Berlin

American military governors

 * General Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1945 - May 1947
 * General Lucius D. Clay, May 1947 - May 1949