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- ↑ Harald Lutter: Zur verfassungsgeschichtlichen Stellung des Provinzialverbandes Pommern und seiner ständischen Vorformen. In: Baltische Studien. NF Vol. 80, 1994, ISSN 0067-3099, p. 67.
- ↑ Theodor Wengler: Der Provinzialverband Pommern. Verzeichnis der Mitglieder des Provinziallandtages. Böhlau Verlag, Köln u. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20109-8, p. 2 (Veröffentlichungen der Historischen Kommission für Pommern. Series V, Vol. 44).
