General Commission (Prussia)

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General commissions in the Kingdom of Prussia were authorities to regulate questions of rural conditions, real loads , land consolidation and amelioration . They were also the courts in disputes on these issues. In 1919 the general commissions were dissolved and replaced by the state cultural offices.

In 1817, the ordinance regulates the organization of the general commissions and the revision boards to regulate the manorial affairs, the same due to the business operations of these authorities from June 20, 1816. The general commissions initially consisted of a general commissioner as director and two other members. At least one of the members had to be qualified to serve as judges. It was possible to revise the decisions of the general commissions by the revision colleges.

As a result, general commissions were set up in all Prussian provinces . In 1820 the general commissions were established in Magdeburg and Münster.

In the 1880s, the general commissions were merged. The law on general state administration of July 30, 1883 repealed the general commissions for the provinces of Pomerania and Posen and assigned their tasks to those for the province of Brandenburg. In the same law, a joint general commission for the provinces of East and West Prussia and Posen was formed and it was established that the general commission for the province of Hanover was also responsible for the province of Schleswig-Holstein. The task was now to regulate the landlord, peasant relations, the replacement of real burdens, common divisions (exemptions from servitude, division of jointly used land), economic amalgamations ( linkages ), disputes, divisions, national cultural causes and the necessary ameliorations in connection with common divisions as well as the implementation of laws about the inheritance law . Special commissions were set up below the general commissions, each of which was responsible for several districts. The number of special commissions increased over time. In 1885 when the General Commission Düsseldorf was formed for the Rhine Province in Rhine Province 7, in 1918 there were already 24 special commissions.

The law on regional cultural authorities of June 3, 1919 renamed the general commissions to regional cultural authorities and the special commissions to cultural authorities (at district level).

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. Ges.S. (Volume 1817/1818) p. 161 ff.
  2. ^ Law on the General Commissions to be set up in Magdeburg and Münster of September 25, 1820; Printed in: Official Journal for the Düsseldorf District: 1821, pp. 42–48, online
  3. Law on general state administration of July 30, 1883, § 16
  4. Max Bär: The Authorities Constitution of the Rhine Province, Bonn 1919, reprint 1965, p. 452 ff.
  5. Horst Romeyk: Administrative and Authority History of the Rhine Province 1914-1945, 1985, ISBN 3770075528 , pp. 479-480.