Federal Office for the Homeland System
The Federal Office for the Homeland (also Heimatsamt) was a higher administrative court in the German Reich with its seat in Berlin . It was the oldest Reich administrative court and was established by the law on support residence of June 6, 1870.
tasks
The Federal Office for Homeland Affairs decided in the last instance in disputes between various poor associations about the public support of those in need, provided that the disputing poor associations belonged to different federal states of the German Reich. The Federal Office was also able to decide on the disputes between poor associations in the same countries. Appropriate state legal authorization from the states was required for this. This authorization was used by 1908:
- Prussia
- Hesse
- Saxe-Weimar
- Oldenburg
- Braunschweig
- Saxony-Altenburg
- Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
- Stop
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Waldeck
- Reuss younger line
- lip
- Lübeck
- Bremen
Alsace-Lorraine followed in 1909.
In Bavaria, the relevant support residence law was only introduced on January 1, 1916. The Reich Compulsory Welfare Ordinance of February 13, 1924 did not regulate the legal process, the Federal Office existed and continued to operate. It was not lifted until January 1, 1940. The decisions of this court, which are available in printed form in 96 volumes, were of great importance for the practice of associations for the poor / welfare associations.
Course of business
The course of business of the Federal Office for the Homeland System was regulated by a regulation that was printed in the "Centralblatt für das Deutsche Reich" in 1873. The decisions were made free of charge in a public session and were issued “In the name of the German Reich”. In 1928 the oral procedure was restricted.
Chairman and members
The Federal Office consisted of a chairman and at least 4 members, whereby the chairman and half of the members had to be qualified as judges. These were appointed by the emperor for life on the proposal of the Federal Council . The office could be transferred as a secondary office, there was extensive equality (with regard to transfer, disciplinary punishment, dismissal) with the members of the Imperial Court .
The following appointments of the founding members were published in the Reichs-Gesetzblatt:
- 1871
- to the chairman:
- the Prussian Secret Legation Council and lecturing council in the Foreign Office Bernhard König (Berlin);
- to members:
- the Prussian High Tribunal Councilor Otto Thümmel (Berlin)
- the Prussian Secret Government Council and lecturing council in the Ministry of the Interior Wilhelm Wohlers (Berlin)
- the Royal Prussian Chamber Judge Edwin von Drenkmann (Berlin)
- the Grand Ducal Saxon Public Prosecutor Karl Göpel (Eisenach).
- 1872
- to the member:
- the Prussian High Tribunal Councilor Ernst von Holleben (Berlin)
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Individual evidence
- ↑ For the activity cf. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914 , Department I: From the time of the establishment of the Empire to the Imperial Social Message (1867-1881) , Volume 7: Poor legislation and freedom of movement , 2 half volumes, edited by Christoph Sachße, Florian Tennstedt and Elmar Roeder, Darmstadt 2000; see. Collection of sources on the history of German social policy from 1867 to 1914, Section II: From the Imperial Social Message to the February Decrees of Wilhelm II (1881-1890) , Volume 7: Communal Poor Care , edited by Wilfried Rudloff, Darmstadt 2015.
- ↑ Centralblatt für das Deutsche Reich 1873, pp. 4-7
- ↑ Brockhaus' Konversationslexikon, 14th edition, Volume 8, page 964; Leipzig 1908
- ↑ German Reich Law Gazette 1871, p. 319
- ↑ German Reich Law Gazette 1872, p. 436.