Law on the self-administration of the communities and districts in the GDR
The law on the self-administration of the municipalities and districts in the GDR was the last municipal constitution of the German Democratic Republic . It came into force on May 17, 1990.
Parish term
The first section contains the following legal definition for a municipality according to this law:
" § 1 Concept of the community.
(1) The community is the foundation and member of the democratic state.
(2) The municipality is a community of citizens. It promotes the well-being and social coexistence of its residents through civic self-government.
(3) The municipality is a regional authority. "
With Paragraph 102, Paragraph 1 of this legal provision, the previously applicable “municipal constitution” from 1985, the law on local people's representations in the German Democratic Republic of July 4, 1985, was repealed.
Local authority authorities
According to this law, local supervision was the responsibility of various bodies or officials:
- the district administrator as the lowest state administrative authority: legal supervision for cities and municipalities belonging to the district (Section 64 (1)),
- the government representative of the district : until the state formation legal supervision for independent city (§ 64 Abs. 2),
- the government representative of the district: until the formation of the state government for the districts (Section 98, Paragraph 1).
- The Supreme Legal Supervision Authority was the Minister for Regional and Local Affairs with the participation of the Minister of the Interior (Section 64 (3), Section 98 (2)).
Amendment
After the conclusion of the Unification Treaty , it was supplemented on August 31, 1990 and adapted to the circumstances of the re-established states of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Brandenburg , Saxony-Anhalt , Saxony and Thuringia and also published in the Federal Law Gazette (Federal Law Gazette II p. 889). On October 3, 1990, the day of German unity , it was converted into state law of the five new federal states .
Particularities of administrative practice
For the first time since the dissolution of the states in the GDR in 1952 and the seal order of May 28, 1953, according to this law, the cities and municipalities of the GDR were again allowed to use their own seals according to § 10 point 2.
Additional information
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- Dieter Schlempp (Ed.): Law on the self-administration of the municipalities and districts in the GDR (GVK: bibliographical evidence )