Oberpostdirektion

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Office building of the Hanover Post Office from 1871

Oberpostdirektion (OPD) was in Germany the name for a middle authority and administrative unit of the postal administrations . Upper post offices were first established in the Kingdom of Prussia in 1850 . After the Second World War , Oberpostdirektiven existed first in the occupation zones and later in the two German states. In the GDR , the upper post offices were dissolved in 1954 and new district offices were created.

Task

It was the task of a head post office to relieve the general post office in Berlin. As the new intermediate authority, they had to take care of the administration of the post offices working in their district, the personnel management and the cash desk. The Chief Postal Director ran the administration in the district entrusted to him independently and under his own responsibility.

The Oberpostdirektion were responsible for the local, Karriol and messenger posts, they had to procure the necessary postal coaches and adapt the extra post tariff to local conditions. They had to take care of the passenger lounges and the hospitality of the travelers. One of their tasks was to hire the country mail carriers, "postal agents, office managers and sub-officials". They should monitor postal operations, deploy workers appropriately, investigate complaints from the public and independently regulate the investigation and punishment of postal violations and compensation payments. They had to watch over the post offices. You should procure “printing materials, utensils and mounting items of all kinds” yourself. And they should regulate details briefly and quickly.

The merger of the postal administration with the telegraph administration on January 1, 1876 and the introduction of the telephone service in 1877 added additional tasks. Now they had to arrange the establishment of new telegraph lines, the expansion of the city telephone facilities and the commissioning of public telephones.

Added to this were the power posts , the postal forwarding offices, later rail post offices , the postal check service , the airmail , the postal savings bank service , the radio and the radio system.

Prussia and the North German Postal District 1850–1871

Building of the Braunschweig Post Office

By January 1, 1850, the administration of the postal system was centralized in Prussia. All post offices - 236 post offices, to which 1404 postal expeditions were subordinate and 62 postal administrations - were subordinate to the General Post Office (GPA) in Berlin. Already under Karl August von Hardenberg a memorandum appeared in 1821, which was supposed to relieve the highest postal authority of less important matters. In it he proposed to set up an Oberpostdirektion with administrative powers for each province.

A commission to reorganize the postal system was formed. She proposed that an officer in each administrative district be assigned with the administration of the postal police, mail complaints and accounting for their area, to which a postal inspector should be attached. In addition, 97 district post offices were to be set up under the General Post Office, each of which was to be subordinated to a number of 1st and 2nd class postal administrations for their district. The regulation was not approved, however, and the commission was dissolved in 1823.

In 1849, drafts by the General Post Director Heinrich Schmückert envisaged decentralization by a central authority. By a cabinet order of September 19, 1849, an Oberpostdirektion was set up in each of the 26 administrative districts of Prussia. It said: “For each administrative district as well as for the residential city of Berlin, a post office directorate is to be set up. All post offices in the administrative district are equally subordinated to the Oberpostdirektion ... “.

Former head post office in Stettin (right half of the picture)

On January 1, 1850, 26 Oberpostdirections started their activity. It was this

This administrative division was transferred to the North German Post District in 1868 and to the Reichspost in 1871.

As early as October 1, 1852, the Oberpostdirektion Merseburg, which was poorly housed there due to its location and space, was relocated to Halle (Saale).

On January 1, 1867, the Oberpostdirektion were added in Kiel and on January 1, 1867 Hanover .

As a result of the abolition of the Thurn and Taxis postal administration , the upper post offices were set up in Kassel , Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main on July 1, 1867 .

After the previous provincial postal administrations were abolished due to the constitution of the North German Confederation , the Oberpostdirectors in Leipzig , Schwerin , Oldenburg and Braunschweig followed on January 1, 1868 . As a result of the war , the Oberpostdirections in Strasbourg and Metz were added in Alsace-Lorraine in October 1870 .

On July 1, 1868, the OPD in Stralsund was abolished and merged with the district of the OPD in Stettin. At the same time, the OPD in Marienwerder was canceled.

Reichspost 1871–1945

Building of the OPD Karlsruhe

With the founding of the empire on January 1, 1872, the Baden OPDn in Karlsruhe and Constance were added. Also on January 1, 1872, the Leipzig district was divided and a new OPD was set up in Dresden .

On April 1, 1873 and January 1, 1874, the previous special position of the upper post offices in Hamburg and Bremen was set up in these cities. The Oberpostamt in Lübeck was dissolved and assigned to the Hamburg district. In the meantime, the OPDn in Aachen , Minden and Bromberg had been lifted, but were re-established after a short period due to increasing traffic.

On August 1, 1895, the OPD Arnsberg was relocated to Dortmund, the center of the Westphalian coal and iron industry, and on July 1, 1897, the OPD came into being in Chemnitz. The number of Oberpostdirektion in Germany rose from 33 in 1871 to 41 in 1897.

In Bavaria, on April 1, 1907, the previous upper post offices were converted into upper post offices.

The outcome of the war made it necessary in 1918 to surrender the OPDn in Gdansk, Bromberg, Posen, Metz and Strasbourg. On the basis of the international treaties of 29./31. March 1920, the OPDn in Munich, Landshut, Nuremberg, Bamberg, Würzburg, Regensburg, Augsburg and Speyer as well as the Württemberg General Directorate of Posts and Telegraphs as OPD in Stuttgart were subordinated to the Reich Ministry of Post.

Since April 1, 1920, the heads of the OPDn - in Stuttgart long before that - have been given the title of President. At the same time, the title of Chief Post Director passed to the heads of the largest post offices.

In the course of administrative simplification, the five OPDn in Darmstadt, Halle (Saale), Konstanz, Liegnitz and Minden (Westphalia) were dissolved in 1934.

From April 1, 1934 on, the Oberpostdirektion was called Reichspostdirektion (RPD).

As a result of the reorganization of the Saar area in 1935, the number of Oberpostdirektion increased again to 41 with the establishment of the Oberpostdirektion Saarbrücken.

In National Socialist Germany , the number of Oberpostdirektion rose to 51 through the incorporation of additional areas. The ten new OPDn were in Aussig, Danzig, Graz, Innsbruck, Karlsbad, Klagenfurt, Linz (Danube), Posen, Troppau and Vienna.

Conquered and occupied territories were connected to the Deutsche Reichspost by the organization "Deutsche Dienstpost ...", the postal services were Germanized and later looked after by the Reichspostdirectors. On January 1, 1940 Danzig had 373 post offices and offices, Gumbinnen 10, Königsberg 25, Oppeln 263 and Posen to supply.

In the course of the simplification of administration during the war, 13 Reichspostdirectors were abolished in 1943 (Aachen, Bamberg, Karlsbad, Kassel, Köslin, Landshut (Bavaria), Oldenburg (Oldb), Potsdam, Regensburg, Speyer, Trier, Troppau and Würzburg).

On May 8, 1945, 38 Reichspostdirectors still existed.

Post-war period from 1945

After the collapse, after Germany was divided into four zones of occupation and the urban area of ​​Berlin, which was under special four-power administration, the upper post offices were re-established in the zones except for Berlin.

On the basis of the Potsdam Agreement (1945), the upper post offices - the districts of Königsberg (Pr), Gumbinnen, Stettin, Breslau and Opole - areas to the right of the Oder / Neisse line - were taken over into Soviet and Polish administration. Austria was again an independent state.

British zone of occupation

In the British zone of occupation , the "Reichspost-Oberpostdirektion für die Britishzone" (BZRPO) in Bad Salzuflen was responsible for the OPDn Braunschweig, Bremen, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Kiel, Cologne and Münster (Westphalia ).

American zone of occupation

In October 1945 a "planning committee" for the American zone of occupation was formed in southern Germany with the aim of standardizing the administration. Since April 1946 the OPDn Frankfurt (Main), Karlsruhe (Baden), Munich, Nuremberg, Regensburg and Stuttgart have been subordinate to a senior postal directorate in Munich.

French zone of occupation

After defining the borders in the French occupation zone , it included the OPDn Koblenz and Saarbrücken as well as parts of the OPD districts of Frankfurt (Main). Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. Actually only the OPD Koblenz was able to work. The workforce of the OPD Saarbrücken had moved across the Rhine and was initially absent. In June 1945, new head post offices were set up in Trier and Neustadt (Weinstrasse). Neustadt was also responsible for Rheinhessen, which actually belongs to Frankfurt (Main).

As a result of the redrafting of the borders, new Oberpostdirektion were created in Freiburg (Breisgau) and Tübingen in the summer of 1945 to take over the tasks for the French part of the OPDs districts of Karlsruhe and Stuttgart. Thus - after the economic spin-off of the Saar area with the "Oberpostdirektion Saar" formed in the summer of 1945 - the following five OPDn existed in the French-occupied areas: Freiburg, Koblenz, Neustadt, Trier and Tübingen. They were subordinate to the "Direction des PTT du Gouvernement Militaire de la Zone Francaise d'Occupation" based in Baden-Baden.

The cooperation turned out to be difficult and the "German Post Central Office in the French Zone" (DPZ) was set up in Rastatt on September 1, 1945.

A district post office in Wiesbaden was responsible for the area of ​​the province of Nassau (excluding the urban district of Frankfurt (Main), the urban district of Hanau and the districts of Hanau, Gelnhausen and Schlüchtern) and existed from July 28 to September 26, 1945.

On January 1, 1947, the British and American zones merged to form the bizone . The Saarland was annexed economically and politically to France. The previous OPD Munich and the BZRPO were combined to form the main administration for the postal and telecommunications system of the American and British occupation zones, with their headquarters in Frankfurt am Main. There were 15 upper post offices in the "Bizone". From April 1 on, postal traffic between the United Economic Area was subject to uniform postal regulations. From October 1, 1948, foreign fees and regulations applied to traffic between the United Economic Area and Saarland. With effect from January 1, 1957, the Basic Law and the Postal Administration Law of the Federal Republic of Germany applied in Saarland . Between July 8, 1957 and June 30, 1959, special tariffs were in force between Saarland and France, the French Union, and Italy and Luxembourg.

On June 20, 1948, the currency reform for June 21 was announced. In response, the Berlin blockade was imposed from June 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949.

In 1949 the three western zones merged to form the " Trizone ". The Federal Republic of Germany created a provisional Basic Law that Bavaria has not ratified. The Deutsche Post was founded in the western zones in 1947 as the successor to the Reichspost and renamed the Deutsche Bundespost on March 1, 1950. There were twenty head post offices.

Soviet occupation zone

In the Soviet Occupation Zone (SBZ), the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) was established on June 9, 1945 . On September 8, 1945, the central administration for the postal and telecommunications system in the Soviet zone of occupation in Germany (ZVPF) began its work, which included the OPDn Chemnitz, Dresden, Erfurt, Halle (Saale), Leipzig, Magdeburg, Potsdam and Schwerin (Mecklenburg) were subordinated. The OPDn Chemnitz and Magdeburg were dissolved on October 1, 1945 and their districts were assigned to the OPDn Leipzig or Halle (Saale).

The ZVPF was in 1948 in the German Economic Commission (DWK), Head Office Post and Telecommunications (HVPF) . After the founding of the GDR on October 7, 1949, this became the Ministry for Post and Telecommunications of the GDR (MPF).

Four sector city of Berlin

The Reichspostdirektion Berlin (RPD), based in Charlottenburg, was responsible for 200 post offices, three railway post offices , the postal newspaper office , the postal check office , seven telephone offices, etc.

On May 14, 1945, the RPD Berlin decreed: "For the time being, any official act in the postal and telecommunications operations must be avoided". This order was sent by relay mail. Five days later, on May 19, the former OPD Berlin was subordinated to the Berlin magistrate ( Magistrat Werner ) under the name Department Post and Telecommunications of the Magistrate of Greater Berlin . The postal and telecommunications system thus became a communal matter in the four-sector city .

With the division of the city in the course of 1948, a “Democratic Magistrate” was constituted in the eastern sector on November 30, 1948; in the three western sectors formed after the election in December 1948 the magistrate Reuter II the government. Their post and telecommunications department was named "Senate Administration for Post and Telecommunications" (SVPF) in January 1951.

In the course of closer affiliation with the Deutsche Bundespost , the State Post Office Berlin (LPD Berlin) was founded on April 1, 1954, with its headquarters at Dernburgstrasse  50 in Berlin-Charlottenburg. In the building of the LPD , too, was from 1948 to 1971 Postscheckamt Berlin West accommodated. There was never a Deutsche Bundespost Berlin organization - this term was only found on Berlin postage stamps . A plaque attached there informs about the post-history of the building.

German postal service

The entry into force of the Basic Law of the Federal Republic of Germany on May 23, 1949 was followed by the establishment of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) on October 7, 1949 . The provisions of the Universal Postal Treaty came into force in the GDR on July 1, 1953.

This gave rise to its own postal administration in the SBZ, the Deutsche Post , which was subordinated to the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications (MPF) when the GDR was founded. It independently issued postage stamps whose validity ended on October 31, 1945.

In 1952, with effect from January 1, 1953, the previous upper post offices were dissolved. It was replaced by 14 district offices for post and telecommunications in Rostock, Schwerin (Mecklenburg), Neubrandenburg (Mecklenburg), Potsdam, Frankfurt (Oder), Cottbus, Magdeburg, Halle (Saale), Erfurt, Gera, Suhl, Dresden , Leipzig and Chemnitz, on February 18, 1954, Berlin (East) was the last to follow. There were also several central offices that reported directly to the MPF.

German Federal Post Office

Flag on the official car of the presidents of a senior post office, the Central Post Office and the Central Telecommunications Office 15 × 25 cm ,? ?Service flag on land Historic flag

After the Second World War and the establishment of the German Federal Post Office , the names were changed back to Oberpostdirektion. On April 1, 1950, in accordance with Article 130 of the Basic Law, the main administration for the postal and telecommunications system of the United Economic Area and the higher postal offices in the states of Baden, Rhineland-Palatinate and Württemberg-Hohenzollern with their subordinate and subordinate departments, were transferred to federal administration .

The Landespostdirektion Berlin (LPD) was set up for the western sectors of Berlin . Since Berlin was not allowed to be co-governed directly from the Federal Republic of Germany because of its special four-power status , the LPD Berlin was formally part of the Senate Administration for the Post and Telecommunications System, but in fact it was managed and treated like an OPD by the responsible Federal Ministry. However, as a consequence of the special legal status of West Berlin, the LPD Berlin issued its own postage stamps , although the stamps of the Deutsche Bundespost and West Berlin had been reciprocally valid since the beginning of 1950. The stamps of the LPD Berlin were recognizable by the inscription "Deutsche Bundespost Berlin".

The number of OPDs fluctuated as some OPDs were dissolved in the course of reorganizations and mergers. From January 1, 1957, an OPD was added as a result of the Saarland's accession to the Federal Republic of Germany. Between July 8, 1957 and June 30, 1959, special tariffs were in force between Saarland and France, the French Union, and Italy and Luxembourg.

As early as 1973 the question of a reorganization of the OPD districts was raised. The Federal Cabinet set up a ministerial committee with the result of abandoning the Federal Post Office and reducing the number of Oberpostdirectors by at least four. It was proposed to unite the OPD Braunschweig with Hanover, the OPD Trier with the OPD Koblenz, the OPD Neustadt an der Weinstrasse with the OPD Karlsruhe and to divide the OPD Tübingen district into the OPDn Freiburg im Breisgau and Stuttgart. The Federal Government has asked the Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications to order the four OPDs mentioned and their association with the neighboring directorates by May 1, 1976. The organizational implementation of the integration as well as the division of the four OPDs into five neighboring OPDs was essentially completed on December 31, 1977.

On July 1, 1976, an ordinance on postal and telecommunications traffic with the German Post Office of the GDR came into effect. It regulated the reciprocal mail and telecommunications traffic between the GDR and the FRG. The legal basis was the statutes of the Universal Postal Union and the international telecommunications treaty.

New construction of the Oberpostdirektion Dortmund

When Post Reform I came into force in 1990, only 17 of the former 44 OPDn and the Landespostdirektion Berlin existed. The head post offices were initially split up internally (head post office division postal service and telecom division), since the tasks were now to be carried out independently by the individual new divisions. The divisional heads for the postal service and telecom acted under a president. The complete separation followed in January 1993, the previous divisional heads mostly became presidents of a directorate. At the same time, all of the Oberpostdirections were renamed as Directorates, at the Deutsche Bundespost Postdienst in Directorate Postal Service (the five directorates on the territory of the GDR were called Directorate Postal Service from the beginning). After the Post Reform II, the division organization was reformed at the resulting Deutsche Post AG in 1996 : the 23 directorates no longer acted regionally, but according to the divisions letter post, freight post and branches. With the reorganization of Deutsche Post AG in 1999, the directorates were completely eliminated.

Data centers

The upper post offices of Hamburg, Hanover / Braunschweig, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Munich as well as the LPD Berlin also maintained data centers for mainframes, with the technical control being carried out by the central postal office . In addition to the original applications of the postal service, the postal pension service and the telecommunications accounting service were also operated there as the largest applications. Even after the postal reform, it took several years for the procedures that continued to be carried out in "payroll accounting" to be taken over by Deutsche Telekom AG or today's Deutsche Rentenversicherung.

Reunification in 1990

When the Wall came down on November 9, 1989, there was a need for closer cooperation between the postal institutions in both German states. As early as December 12, 1989, the postal ministers of both countries met in East Berlin to discuss immediate measures in the postal and telecommunications system. For the time being, it was only about the 120 telephone lines that existed between the two postal areas. A further 188 lines could be added by December 20.

The organizational ruling was about the dissolution or transfer of the organizational structure. The term "unwind" used in the decree meant in the linguistic usage at the time to lay off the workforce and to close the company.

On the basis of Article 13, Paragraph 2 of the Unification Treaty of August 31, 1990 between the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic in conjunction with the Act of Approval to the Unification Treaty, the following was ordered with effect from October 3, 1990:

  • The general directorates of Deutsche Post will not be transferred to the federal government; they are being settled .
  • The Deutsche Post divisions in the postal areas of Schwerin, Erfurt, Halle, Dresden and Potsdam, the postal service division of the Berlin division, the Deutsche Post divisions in the telecommunications division of Rostock, Erfurt, Magdeburg, Leipzig and Potsdam, and the telecommunications division of the Berlin division are opened the companies of Deutsche Bundespost Postdienst and Deutsche Bundespost Telekom transferred.
  • The main post check office in Berlin and the post check office in Leipzig are transferred to the Deutsche Bundespost Postbank. The postal check offices in Erfurt, Dresden and Magdeburg are processed. In addition, the organizational units of Deutsche Post will be transferred to Deutsche Bundespost. The offices for customs and content controls and the building repair service are handled. The same goes for the newspaper sales office, the telecommunications offices and the Deutsche Post company schools.

Now the OPDn Schwerin, Erfurt, Halle, Dresden and Potsdam had been added and the two Berlin offices had been merged. The district offices of Rostock, Neubrandenburg (Mecklenburg), Frankfurt (Oder), Cottbus, Magdeburg, Erfurt, Gera, Suhl, Leipzig and Chemnitz, founded on January 1st, 1953, were wound up. Telekom took over the telecommunications offices in Rostock, Magdeburg, Leipzig and Potsdam as well as Berlin.

List of the upper post offices

Chief Postal Directorates
Location Facility Resolution and remark Location Facility Resolution and remark
Aachen January 1, 1850
January 1, 1876 		October 1, 1870
March 2, 1943, to RPD Cologne 		augsburg April 1, 1920 1945 to RPD Munich
Aussig February 1, 1939 1945 (end of the Third Reich) Arnsberg January 1, 1850 October 1, 1895, to OPD Dortmund
Bamberg April 1, 1920 February 20, 1943, to RPD Nuremberg Berlin January 1, 1850 January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost
Braunschweig January 1, 1868 1977, to OPD Hannover Bremen January 1, 1874 January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost
Wroclaw January 1, 1850 1945 (end of the Third Reich) Bromberg January 1, 1850
January 1, 1876 		October 1, 1868, to OPD Posen
1918 ( Treaty of Versailles )
Chemnitz
May 10, 1953 - May 31, 1990
Karl-Marx-Stadt 		July 1, 1897
January 1, 1953 		Settled October 1, 1945
October 3, 1990 		cottbus January 1, 1953 Settled October 3, 1990
Danzig January 1, 1850
October 22, 1939 		1918 (Versailles Treaty)
1945 (end of the Third Reich) 		Darmstadt January 1, 1867 March 31, 1934 to OPD Frankfurt (Main)
Dortmund January 1, 1895 January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost Dresden January 1, 1872 January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost
Dusseldorf January 1, 1850 January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost Erfurt January 1, 1850 January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost
Frankfurt (Oder) January 1, 1850 Settled October 3, 1990 Frankfurt (Main) June 1, 1867 January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost
Freiburg (Brsg) 1945 French zone January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost Gera January 1, 1953 Settled October 3, 1990
Graz May 1, 1938 1945 (end of the Third Reich) Gumbinnen January 1, 1850 1945 (end of the Third Reich)
Halle (Saale) October 1, 1852
January 1, 1953 		March 31, 1934
January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost 		Hamburg April 1, 1873 January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost
Hanover January 1, 1867 January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost innsbruck May 1, 1938 1945 (end of the Third Reich)
Karl-Marx-Stadt → Chemnitz Carlsbad February 1, 1939 February 18, 1943, to RPD Aussig
Karlsruhe January 1, 1872 January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost kassel June 1, 1867 February 26, 1943, to RPD Frankfurt (Main)
Kiel January 1, 1867 January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost Klagenfurt May 1, 1938 1945 (end of the Third Reich)
Koblenz January 1, 1850 January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost Cologne January 1, 1850 January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost
Koenigsberg (Pr) January 1, 1850 1945 (end of the Third Reich) Constancy January 1, 1872 March 31, 1934, to OPD Karlsruhe
Koslin January 1, 1850 February 10, 1943, to RPD Stettin Landshut April 1, 1920 February 22, 1943, to RPD Munich
Leipzig January 1, 1868 Settled October 3, 1990 Liegnitz January 1, 1850 March 31, 1934, to OPD Breslau
Linz (Danube) May 1, 1938 1945 (end of the Third Reich) Magdeburg January 1, 1850 Settled October 3, 1990
Marienwerder January 1, 1850 December 31, 1871 Merseburg January 1, 1850 October 1, 1852, to OPD Halle (Saale)
Metz October 1870 1918 (Versailles Treaty) Minden January 1, 1850
January 1, 1876 		July 1, 1869
March 31, 1934, to OPD Münster
Munich April 1, 1920 January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost Muenster January 1, 1850 January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost
Neubrandenburg January 1, 1953 Settled October 3, 1990 Neustadt (Weinst) 1945 French zone 1977 at OPD Karlsruhe
Nuremberg April 1, 1920 January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost Oldenburg January 1, 1868 March 4, 1943, to RPD Bremen
Opole January 1, 1850 1945 (end of the Third Reich) Poses January 1, 1850
December 1, 1939 		1918 (Versailles Treaty)
1945 (end of the Third Reich)
Potsdam January 1, 1850

January 1, 1953

February 15, 1943, to RPD Berlin

January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost

regensburg April 1, 1920
1945 American zone 		March 30, 1943, to RPD Nuremberg
January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost
Rostock January 1, 1953 Settled October 3, 1990 Saarbrücken March 1, 1935 January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost
Schwerin January 1, 1868 Settled October 3, 1990 Speyer April 1, 1920 February 28, 1943, to RPD Saarbrücken
Szczecin January 1, 1850 1945 (end of the Third Reich) Stralsund January 1, 1850 July 1, 1868, to OPD Stettin
Strasbourg October 1870 1918 (Versailles Treaty) Stuttgart April 1, 1920 January 1, 1995, end of the Bundespost
Suhl January 1, 1953 Settled October 3, 1990 trier January 1, 1850
1945 French zone 		February 24, 1943, to RPD Koblenz
1977 to OPD Koblenz
Troppau February 1, 1939 March 25, 1943, to RPD Opole Tübingen 1945 French zone 1977, at OPD Freiburg and Stuttgart
Vienna May 1, 1938 1945 (end of the Third Reich) Wurzburg April 1, 1920 March 17, 1943, to RPD Nuremberg

See also

literature

  • Heinrich Stephan :
    • History of the Prussian Post from its origins to the present, according to official sources . Royal Geheime Ober-Hofbuchdruckerei (R.Decker), Berlin 1859
    • History of the Prussian Post from its origins to the present, according to official sources , revised and continued by Karl Sautter . RvDecker's Verlag, G.Schenck
  • Reinhard Pahlke : On the memorandum of the Reich Ministry of Post about the reduction in the number of upper post offices . Kiel 1928
  • Karl Sautter :
    • History of the German Post, History of the North German Federal Post , Part 2. Unchanged reprint 1952, Federal Printing Office
    • History of the Deutsche Post 1871 to 1945 , part 3, Bundesdruckerei Frankfurt (Main), 1951
  • Hans Steinmetz , Dietrich Elias: History of the Deutsche Post 1945 to 1978 . Volume 4. Ed. On behalf of the Federal Minister for Post and Telecommunications. Bonn 1979
  • Federal Ministry for the Post and Telecommunications (Ed.):
  • Wolfgang Lotz: The German Reichspost 1933–1938 . Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-87584-915-9 .
  • Gerd R. Ueberschär : The German Reichspost 1939-1945 . Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-87584-915-9 .
  • Werner Steven:
    • Post book 1945–1992 edited from official sources . Self-published, Braunschweig 1994
    • GDR post book 1947–1989 edited from official sources . Self-published, Braunschweig 2002
    • Postage book 1991–2001 edited from official sources . Self-published, Braunschweig 2001
    • GDR The end of a post order (1989–1991) and the transitional regulations for the Federal Post Office . New series of the Poststempelgilde e. V. Verlag Neues Handbuch der Briefmarkenkunde, Soest 2000

Web links

Wikisource: Very high decree of December 28th, 1870., concerning the abolition of the Ober-Postdirektion in Aachen and the merger of the business group of the same with that of the Ober-Postdirektion in Cöln.  - Sources and full texts
Wikisource: Very high decree of March 14th, 1871., concerning the diversion of the postal administration business for some areas of the province of Hanover from the business area of ​​the upper post office in Hanover and addition of the same to the business area of ​​the upper post office in Braunschweig.  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Neumann: The heads of the Oberpostdirektion Minden 1850-1869 and 1876-1934. Announcements of the Minden History Society, year 52, 1980, pp. 77–111.
  2. ↑ Gerd R. Ueberschär : The German Reichspost 1939-1945 . Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, pp. 91–136
  3. ^ Official Journal of the RPM , 1943
  4. ↑ Memorial plaque Landespostdirektion Berlin , accessed on May 7, 2020.
  5. ↑ Const. BMPT 136/1990. In: Official Gazette , No. 77, October 1, 1990
  6. ↑ Wolf J. Pelikan: The way to unity . Phil • Creativ Verlag, Schwalmsal 1991, ISBN 3-928277-01-4