Lüneburg administrative district

Basic data
Country :	Lower Saxony
Administrative headquarters :	Luneburg
Area :	15,507.13 km²
Residents :	1,702,179 (September 30, 2004)
Population density :	110 inhabitants / km²
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The administrative district of Lüneburg was an administrative district of Lower Saxony from 1885 to 2004 .

history

The history of the administrative district of Lüneburg goes back to the year 1885, when the former Kingdom of Hanover, which became Prussian in 1866, was divided into administrative districts as the Prussian Province of Hanover. The model was the government districts established in other Prussian provinces in 1815/16. The administrative district of Lüneburg was formed from the Landdrostei Lüneburg , which had existed since 1823 .

With the National Socialist Greater Hamburg Law of 1937, the administrative district lost its by far largest city, the then Harburg-Wilhelmsburg , to Hamburg .

On March 1, 1974, the Lüneburg administrative district was reduced to include the area of ​​the former Burgdorf district . This was dissolved, incorporated into the Hanover district and thus assigned to the Hanover district government. On February 1, 1978, the administrative district of Lüneburg was enlarged to include the area of ​​the dissolved administrative district of Stade . The district of Gifhorn and the city of Wolfsburg were incorporated into the administrative district of Braunschweig .

The administrative districts of the State of Lower Saxony existed until December 31, 2004. Since January 1, 2005, all administrative districts in Lower Saxony have been abolished and their authorities, the district governments, have been dissolved. In Lüneburg, the former building of the district government was renamed "Authority Center Auf der Hude", in which 16 authorities have been housed since January 1, 2005, including a. the Lower Saxony State School Authority , the Lüneburg Police Department, the State Office for Remuneration and Supply and the State Office for Social Affairs. In place of the government agency established in 2005, regional representatives for the area of ​​the former administrative district of Lüneburg were appointed in 2014 within the boundaries of 1978 to 2004.

Continuation of the administrative district as an EU region

Within the framework of the structural funds programs of the European Union , the administrative district of Lüneburg has been classified as a "phasing-out" area. The Lüneburg region is the only West German area to belong to the highest EU funding category (Objective 1 area), for which funds from the European Regional Development Fund and the European Social Fund will be made available in the structural fund funding phase 2007-2013 . For this purpose, the state of Lower Saxony will receive € 800 million during this period.

Former administrative division

Administrative division after 1885

City districts

• Celle
• Harburg (dissolved in Harburg-Wilhelmsburg in 1927)
• Wilhelmsburg (town from 1925, taken up in Harburg-Wilhelmsburg in 1927)
• Harburg-Wilhelmsburg (from 1927, 1937 to Hamburg)
• Luneburg

Counties

• Bleckede (taken up in the Lüneburg district in 1932 )
• Burgdorf (incorporated in the district of Hanover in 1974 )
• Celle
• Dannenberg (renamed in 1951 to Lüchow-Dannenberg district )
• Fallingbostel
• Gifhorn
• Harburg (merged with Winsen District to form the new Harburg District in 1932 )
• Isenhagen (incorporated in the Gifhorn district in 1932)
• Lüchow (taken up in the Dannenberg district in 1932)
• Luneburg
• Soltau
• Uelzen
• Winsen (merged in 1932 with Harburg district to form the new Harburg district)
• Verden

Administrative division after 1977

During the district reform , which was carried out in Lower Saxony from 1972 to 1977, the districts were merged into larger administrative units and the two independent cities were integrated into the districts. Some of today's counties existed before the county reform. At that time, however, they had a different cut. After assigning the administrative district of Stade and handing over the district of Gifhorn and the city of Wolfsburg to the administrative district of Braunschweig , the administrative district of Lüneburg comprised eleven districts:

• Celle , including the large independent city of Celle
• Cuxhaven , including the large independent city of Cuxhaven
• Harburg
• Lüchow-Dannenberg
• Lüneburg , including the large independent city of Lüneburg
• Osterholz
• Rotenburg (Wümme)
• Soltau-Fallingbostel (2011 renamed the district of Heidekreis )
• Stade
• Uelzen
• Verden

District President

• 1869–1873: Jérôme von Schlotheim
• 1873–1885: Johannes Schrader
• 1885–1886: Hermann von Borries
• 1886–1890: Georg Lodemann
• 1890–1899: Axel von Colmar
• 1900–1908: Karl Friedrich von Oertzen
• 1908–1914: Adolf Heinrichs
• 1914–1917: Hermann Freiherr von Ziller
• 1917–1922: Karl Mauve
• 1923–1927: Hans Krüger
• 1927–1928: Hermann Lüdemann
• 1928–1932: Christian Herbst
• 1932–1934: Franz Hermann Reschke
• 1934–1944: Kurt Matthaei
• 1944–1945: Fritz Herrmann
• 1946–1950: Walter Harm
• 1950–1954: Helmuth Andreas Koch
• 1954–1962: Erich Krause
• 1962–1970: Fritz Kaestner
• 1971–1976: Hans-Rainer Frede
• 1976–1981: Rolf Wandhoff
• 1981–1990: Klaus Becker
• 1990–1993: Manfred Imgart
• 1993–1994: Birgit Pollmann
• 1994–2002: Ulrike Wolff-Gebhardt
• 2002–2003: Birgit Honé
• 2003–2004: Bernd Hufenreuther
• On December 31, 2004 the instance of the district governments in Lower Saxony was dissolved.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ § 1 of Article 1 (Law on the Dissolution of District Governments) of the Law on the Modernization of Administration in Lower Saxony ( Memento of the original of May 22, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics, Labor and Transport : Structural Funds Funding Phase 2007-2013