Governor

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Amtshauptmann is the historical name for a senior administrative officer .

General

The official governor was the head of a territorially circumscribed office or district. Such offices as organs of sovereign administration arose in the late Middle Ages and in the early modern period in numerous territories of the Old Kingdom and in Denmark . The powers of the official governors were very varied and varied from country to country. They mostly had tasks in the judiciary, in financial administration and in taxation, and more rarely in national defense.

The official constitution in the Electorate of Brandenburg or Prussia and in the Electorate of Saxony was developed and well organized at an especially early stage . From 1838 to 1938 Office captains were the chief or head of agency of the Saxon Office main teams . In 1867 the Prussian designation Amtshauptmann replaced the royal Hanover nomenclature Amtmann as the head of the offices in the province of Hanover . With the renaming in 1939 to the uniform imperial designation of the district , the governor received the official title of district administrator .

Important officials in Brandenburg

Important officials in Saxony

literature

  • Volker Ruhland: Administrative history of Saxony. An overview. 2nd Edition. IKC Verlag, Dresden 2006, ISBN 3-938856-01-7 ( Small Historical Saxony Universe ).
  • Thomas Klein (Hrsg.): Outline of the German administrative history. Tape. 14, row B: Central Germany. Saxony. Johann Gottfried Herder Institute, Marburg / Lahn 1982, ISBN 3-87969-129-0 .

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