Governor
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
- Heino von Broesigke (1525–1609), governor of Lehnin and previously in the ore monastery of Magdeburg von Querfurt , Giebichenstein and Rothenburg
- Adam Christoph von Flanß (1664–1748), governor of Fehrbellin and Alt Ruppin
- Albrecht Konrad Finck von Finckenstein (1660–1735), governor of Crossen
Important officials in Saxony
- Ulrich von Nostitz (1500–1552), governor of Bautzen
- Balthasar Wurmb (1532–1598), governor of Stolpen
- Carol Bose (1596–1657), governor of the offices of Zwickau , Werdau and Stollberg
- Siegfried von Metzradt (1600–1668), governor of the Hoyerswerda estate
- Hermann von Salza and Lichtenau (1829–1915), governor of Bautzen
- Leonce von Könneritz (1835–1890), governor of Chemnitz
- Richard von Schlieben (1848–1908), governor of Zittau
- Ernst von Salza and Lichtenau (1860–1926), governor of Oschatz
- Georg von Craushaar (1851–1936), governor of Löbau
- Karl Joseph Maximilian Lossow (1856–1924), governor of Dippoldiswalde and Meißen
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 .