District Council (Baden)

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The district council was created in the Baden district offices according to the law on the organization of internal administration of October 5, 1863 (Government Gazette No. 399, 1863).

A district council was assigned to each of the 59 district offices , which consisted of six to nine honorary members depending on the number of residents. Under the chairmanship of a senior official , the head of the respective district office, he participated in certain state tasks.

The district councils were selected by the Ministry of the Interior from a list of proposals from the district assembly, a list with three times the number of people had to be submitted. The district councils were appointed for four years.

literature

  • Meyers Konversations-Lexikon , 5th edition, 2nd volume, Leipzig a. Vienna 1893, p. 960.