Home information centers
The home information centers served to balance the burden of displaced persons . According to the Law on the Determination of Expulsion Damage and War Damage (Determination Act) of 1952, they had to check the reported damage and losses. The positions were structured according to home areas and divided among German countries .
Task and structure
According to Section 24 of the Assessment Act, home information centers have been set up at the state equalization offices. As a rule, they corresponded to earlier administrative districts in the eastern regions of the German Empire .
The home information center consisted of the head and one or more representatives from the home area concerned (§ 2). The leader appointed a voluntary commission of particularly knowledgeable personalities for the home area (§ 3). Prior to her appointment by the should Federal Ministry for Displaced Persons, Refugees and War Victims recognized refugee associations be heard.
The property supervision was the President of the Federal Compensation Office . It issued the necessary orders and general administrative regulations .
Responsibilities
Baden-Württemberg
- Slovakia including Karpatho-Ukraine
- District of Troppau in the Sudetenland (Reichsgau)
- Hungary (peace treaty 1920)
- Yugoslavia (December 31, 1937)
- Soviet Union
- Bulgaria
- Bessarabia
- Dobruja
Bavaria
- Bohemia (March 25, 1939)
- Moravia (March 25, 1939)
- Aussig administrative district in the Sudetenland (Reichsgau)
- Romania
The homeland information centers for Bohemia and Moravia were dissolved by the federal government in 2001.
Hesse
- District of Eger in the Sudetenland (Reichsgau)
- Baltic States ( Lithuania , Latvia , Estonia )
North Rhine-Westphalia
- Administrative region of Opole with the municipalities of the Hultschiner Ländchen
- West Upper Silesia with the districts of Beuthen , Gleiwitz , Hindenburg and the districts of Beuthen-Tarnowitz and Tost-Gleiwitz
- East Upper Silesia with the administrative district of Katowice including the districts of Bielitz , Chrzanow , Sosnowitz , Ilkenau , Blachownia , Zawiercie , Saybusch , Teschen and the Olsa area
Schleswig-Holstein
In 1999, all files and documents from the home information centers, which have since been closed, were transferred to the load balancing archive in Bayreuth .
literature
- 25 years of home information centers in Schleswig-Holstein . Documentation, ed. from the Pomeranian Foundation. Kiel 1978, OCLC 174525346 .
Web links
- Assessment Act (buzer.de)
- 20 years of home information centers in Baden-Württemberg
- 1. FeststellungsDV ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 845 )
- Five years of home information centers. (PDF; 9.7 MB). In: The Ostpreußenblatt. March 22, 1958, p. 4.
- Holdings of the load balancing archive in Bayreuth (Federal Archives)
- Baden-Württemberg State Archive
- The homeland information centers. (PDF; 9.9 MB). In: The Ostpreußenblatt. November 5, 1952, p. 2.
Individual evidence
- ↑ bundestag.de (PDF; 211 kB)