District Headquarters
Kreishauptmannschaft is a historical term for government agencies, such as Bavaria, Saxony and Austria above the Enns (Upper Austria today) which later in regional councils or regional offices have been renamed, and in occupied Poland during World War II .
Saxony
tasks
As Safety Authority for the National Administration the Kreishauptmannschaft led under the guidance of Kreishauptmann oversight under the Ministry of Interior authorities his region, overseeing the districts and cities and the National Administration, the elementary school supervision, management of direct taxation, the road and hydraulic engineering and military administration were no longer part of their duties. The district head team was also an administrative court of first instance in a collegial composition . A district committee was set up in each of the four regions to regulate certain important administrative matters, the members of which were sent by the district assemblies and city districts; the district chief was also its chairman until the democratization of Germany in 1919.
overview
After 1835 there were initially four so-called district directorates in Saxony , which were renamed as district chiefs after the Saxon administrative reform of 1873/74 .
- District Headquarters Bautzen
- District Headquarters Dresden
- District Headquarters Leipzig
- District Headquarters Zwickau
In 1900, by splitting the Zwickau district team, the Chemnitz district team was also set up. In 1932, the Bautzen district team was merged with the Dresden district team to form the Dresden-Bautzen district team. In 1939, the district main teams were renamed administrative districts based on the Prussian model . From this point on, the district chief was called the district president .
Size comparison of the district main teams (1900)
| District Headquarters | Area in km² | Resident administrative center | Total population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bautzen | 2,469.73 | 26,024 | 405.173 |
| Chemnitz | 2,070.99 | 206.913 | 792.393 |
| Dresden | 4,336.86 | 396.146 | 1,216,489 |
| Leipzig | 3,567.35 | 456.124 | 1,060,632 |
| Zwickau | 2,548.01 | 55,825 | 727.529 |
General Government
After the invasion of Poland in 1939 the Germans appointed senior administrators to district governors (singular: District Chief ), a total of about 130 people, so-called throughout the General Government .
literature
- Kurt Jagow ; Paul Herre: Political Concise Dictionary , Leipzig, KF Koehler 1923. Keywords: district, district main team.
- The German Empire until the end of the monarchy (= German administrative history / on behalf of the Freiherr-vom-Stein-Gesellschaft e.V. edited by Kurt GA Jeserich ), Stuttgart 1984.
Web links
- Andreas Oettel: On the administrative structure of Saxony in the 19th and 20th centuries , in: Statistics in Saxony. Journal for Statistics of the State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , vol. 12 (2006), no. 2, pp. 69–98. (PDF file; 6.4 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen: The German district chiefs in occupied Poland Wallstein, Göttingen 2009 ISBN 3-8353-0477-1 .