German rural community day
The Deutsche Landgemeindetag eV was essentially an association of German rural communities that wanted to adequately represent their interests to the authorities of the German Empire at the beginning of the 20th century.
While the large cities organized themselves in the German Association of Cities , the interests of the Imperial City Association represented medium-sized cities . In 1919 (or 1922) the German Landgemeindetag was founded, which saw itself as the Reich Association of the municipal associations of the individual German states with their rural communities. The Landgemeindetag maintained business relationships with the Association of Prussian Rural Communities , the umbrella association of rural communities , the administrative and manor districts. However, there were no relations with the Rhineland and Westphalia.
The Landgemeindetag was intended to promote the prosperity of the municipalities that had joined and to represent them to the Reich on questions of legislation and administrative regulations. Furthermore, the knowledge and training in the field of administration in the rural communities should be developed.
In 1930, the rural community assembly united 41,420 communities with around 25 million inhabitants. The organ for the publication of notices was the magazine for self-government . The President of the Landgemeindetag was Reich Commissioner Günther Gereke , who had his place of business in Berlin at Potsdamer Strasse 22A.
In the course of the National Socialist policy of harmonization , the central municipal associations were forcibly united on December 15, 1933 for the German Municipal Day. As a National Socialist organization, it was dissolved by the Allied Control Council on October 10, 1945 after the end of National Socialism .
After 1945 the association resumed its work in an independent institutional form.
In 1973, through the merger with the German Association of Cities, the German Association of Cities and Towns was created .
credentials
- Cuno Horkenbach, The German Empire from 1918 to Today , Berlin 1930.