Meißen official administration

Meißen official administration
Basic data
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

Archive administration Saxony

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.

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]).

[sachsen-1] 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]).