Meißen official administration
Basic data | |
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District Headquarters | Dresden |
Administrative headquarters | Meissen |
surface | 675 km² (1939) |
population | 95,818 (1939) |
Population density | 142 inhabitants / km² (1939) |
Location of the administrative authority in Meißen, 1895 | |
The Amtshauptmannschaft Meißen was an administrative district in the Kingdom of Saxony and later in the Free State of Saxony . Most of its area today belongs to the district of Meißen in Saxony. From 1939 to 1952 the administrative district was called Landkreis Meißen .
history
The Amtshauptmannschaft Meißen was formed in 1874 from the districts or parts of the districts of the court offices Grossenhain , Lommatzsch , Meißen , Moritzburg , Nossen and Wilsdruff . The city of Meißen did not belong to the official governing body from 1915 to 1946 and was free of districts during this time .
On January 1, 1939, the Amtshauptmannschaft received the uniform imperial designation Landkreis . In 1952 the district of Meissen was reorganized as part of the GDR district reform . The successor was the smaller district of Meißen , parts of the previous district went to the district of Dresden-Land , Wilsdruff and the surrounding area to the district of Freital , and the area of Siebenlehn to the district of Freiberg .
Office governors and district administrators
- 1874–1877 Johann Theodor Schmiedel
- 1877–1887 Hans Alexander von Bosse
- 1887–1894 Hans Karl Hugo von Kirchbach
- 1894–1903 Kurt Ludwig Viktor von Schroeter
- 1903–1907 Karl Joseph Maximilian Lossow
- 1907–1916 Maximilian Hermann Paul Alexander Freiherr von Oer
- 1916–1919 Paul Hugo Grille
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- 1921 Johannes Sievert
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- 1925–1933 Richard Schmidt
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- 1936–1945 Leonhard Reichelt
geography
In 1910, the Amtshauptmannschaft had an area of approx. 683 km² with around 131,100 inhabitants. It consisted of 272 communities, including the cities of Lommatzsch, Meißen, Nossen, Siebenlehn and Wilsdruff. The Meißen office bordered in the north on the Großenhain office , in the east and south on the Dresden office , and in the southwest and west on the Döbeln , Freiberg and Oschatz office .
source
literature
- Thomas Klein : Outline of German administrative history 1815–1945. Row B: Central Germany. Tape. 14: Saxony. Johann Gottfried Herder Institute, Marburg / Lahn 1982, ISBN 3-87969-129-0 , pp. 345–347.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas Oettel: On the administrative structure of Saxony in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony (Ed.): Statistics in Saxony . 175 years of official statistics in Saxony (Festschrift). No. 1 , 2006, ISSN 0949-4480 , p. 69–98 ( Online [PDF; 6.3 MB ; accessed on December 23, 2012]).