Braunschweig administrative district

Basic data
Country :	Lower Saxony
Administrative headquarters :	Braunschweig
Area :	8098.91 km²
Residents :	1,659,396 (September 30, 2004)
Population density :	205.06 inhabitants / km²
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1961: Western front (towards Ruhfäutchenplatz) of the administrative board, seat of the administrative district of Braunschweig

2005, shortly after the abolition of the Braunschweig administrative district: Same view of the building, meanwhile the seat of the Braunschweig government agency of the State of Lower Saxony and currently undergoing major renovation for the Braunschweig Higher Regional Court

The Region of Braunschweig was the smallest administrative region of the country Lower Saxony . It was created in 1978 from the former administrative district of Braunschweig and dissolved in 2004. In 1978, the administrative district increased considerably compared to the former administrative district when large parts of the dissolved Hildesheim administrative district (districts Göttingen , Northeim , Osterode and Peine ), as well as the district of Gifhorn and the city of Wolfsburg were added from the administrative district of Lüneburg .

Braunschweig administrative district (1946–1978)

Within the state of Lower Saxony, the area of the former Free State of Braunschweig was continued as one of a total of eight administrative districts under the name Braunschweig Administrative District .

It comprised the independent cities of Braunschweig , Goslar and Salzgitter (the name of this city was initially still Watenstedt-Salzgitter ) and the districts of Braunschweig , Gandersheim , Goslar , Helmstedt , Wolfenbüttel and the district of Blankenburg (whose new district seat was Braunlage in the Harz).

Until then, and after the formation of the administrative district of Braunschweig until 1972, the exclave of Thedinghausen near Verden, about 150 km away, belonged to the Braunschweig district . This area has belonged to the Verden district since 1972 .

The district of Goslar with the cities of Goslar and Salzgitter had only come to the then state of Braunschweig from the Prussian province of Hanover ( district of Hildesheim ) in 1941 in exchange for the district of Holzminden, which had been in Brunswick . A year later, the city of Watenstedt-Salzgitter was newly formed from old Brunswick and formerly Prussian (Hanover Province) areas.

Braunschweig administrative district (1978-2004)

In the course of an administrative reform, parts of the dissolved Hildesheim administrative district and the Lüneburg administrative district were added to the administrative district, now the Braunschweig administrative region .

On December 31, 2004, the Braunschweig administrative district and the other three Lower Saxony administrative districts were abolished and their authorities, the district governments, were dissolved. In place of the government agency established in 2005, regional representatives for the area of the former administrative district of Braunschweig were appointed in 2014 within the borders from 1978 to 2004.

Administrative division

Counties	one district cities
Gifhorn Goslar Goettingen Helmstedt Northeim Osterode am Harz Torment Wolfenbüttel	Braunschweig Salzgitter Wolfsburg

The current districts have received their present form through the district reform , which was carried out in Lower Saxony from 1972 to 1977, but go back to districts that already existed before the district reform.

Authority manager

The authority of the administrative district was until 1977 the President of the Lower Saxony administrative district of Braunschweig with an also named "Administrative President " (VP) as head. From 1978 until its dissolution at the end of 2004, the Braunschweig district government was the authority of the administrative district, with a regional president (RP) as head.

District President

1946–1955: Hubert Schlebusch
1956–1964: Friedrich August Knost
1964–1977: Willi Thiele (born October 3, 1915 - † February 6, 2000)

District President

1978–1983: Joachim Passow (* 1925, † 1983), 1973–77 as Vice President, deputy head of the Stade administrative district
1984–1990: Günter Niemann
1990–1993: Helmut Dohr
1993–1997: Karl-Wilhelm Lange
1997–1998: Peter-Jürgen Schneider
1998-2003: Axel Saipa

literature

Atlas administrative district Braunschweig . 1st edition. Westermann, Braunschweig 1985, ISBN 3-14-100062-X .
Friedrich August Knost (ed.): Braunschweig - creating land. A book from the Lower Saxony administrative district of Braunschweig . Stalling, Oldenburg (Oldb) / Hamburg 1957, DNB 99023942X .
Willi Thiele (ed.): The Lower Saxony administrative district Braunschweig . 1st edition. Oeding, Braunschweig 1966, DNB 456180222 .
Holger Bentz: The abolition of the district governments in Lower Saxony - a reform project under ideal conditions? Dissertation. Peter Lang Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-631-58917-5 , table of contents and reading samples

Web links

Jörg Bogumil , Steffen Kottmann: Administrative structural reform - the abolition of the district governments in Lower Saxony . (PDF; 152 pages) 2006

Individual evidence

↑ § 1 of Article 1 ( Law on the Dissolution of District Governments ) of the Law on the Modernization of Administration in Lower Saxony (PDF; 102 kB)

[1] § 1 of Article 1 ( Law on the Dissolution of District Governments ) of the Law on the Modernization of Administration in Lower Saxony (PDF; 102 kB)