District Headquarters Leipzig

Basic data
Administrative headquarters	Leipzig
surface	3,562 km² (1939)
Residents	1,379,165 (1939)
Population density	387 inhabitants / km² (1939)
Kingdom of Saxony 1895

The Kreishauptmannschaft Leipzig was an administrative district in the Kingdom of Saxony and later in the Free State of Saxony . The Saxon district chiefs were comparable in terms of their function and size to an administrative district .

prehistory

A Leipzig district already existed in the Electorate of Saxony , which can be seen as the forerunner of the later district headquarters of Leipzig. As part of the administrative reorganization of the Kingdom of Saxony, the four district offices of Dresden , Bautzen , Zwickau and Leipzig were set up in 1835. Since 1838, the Leipzig district directorate has been divided into four administrative authorities :

Amtshauptmannschaft I (Leipzig) with the districts of Leipzig, Pegau and Borna
Amtshauptmannschaft II (Rochlitz) with the districts of Rochlitz and Colditz
Amtshauptmannschaft III (Grimma) with the districts of Grimma, Mutzschen, Wurzen and Oschatz
Amtshauptmannschaft IV (Döbeln) with the districts of Nossen, Mügeln and Leisnig

Administrative reform of 1874

Map of the district and administrative authorities 1900 to 1932

In 1874 the district directorates and the old administrative authorities were dissolved as part of the internal administration. In place of the Leipzig district directorate, the Leipzig district chief took over. Subordinate to it were the newly formed administrative authorities (from 1939 districts )

as well as the district-free city of Leipzig .

Döbeln , Mittweida and Wurzen were spun off from their administrative authorities as district-free cities .

District Chief

until 1875: Carl Ludwig Gottlob von Burgsdorff (1812–1875)
January – October 1876: Léonce Robert von Könneritz (1835–1890)
1876–1887: Otto Georg Graf zu Münster (1825–1893)
1887–1906: Georg Otto von Ehrenstein (1835–1907)
1906–1910: Johann Georg Freiherr von Welck (1839–1912)
1910–1919: Curt Ludwig Franz von Burgsdorff (1849–1922)
1919–1924: Heinrich Lange (1861–1939)
1924–1925: Edwin Rudolf Lempe (appointed, but not assumed office; * 1879)
1925–1933: Richard Marcus (1883–1933)
March – September 1933: Curt Ludwig Ehrenreich von Burgsdorff (NSDAP) I. term of office (1886–1962)
1933–1937: Kurt Walter Dönicke (NSDAP) (1899–1945)
1937–1938: Curt Ludwig Ehrenreich von Burgsdorff (NSDAP) second term (1886–1962)

Administrative district

In 1939 the district main team was renamed the Leipzig administrative region . In 1943 this structure was dissolved.

1939–1943 Erich Teichmann (* 1882), District President

Leipzig district

After the dissolution of the federal states in the German Democratic Republic , the Leipzig district was established as one of a total of 14 districts .

After 1990, the Leipzig district was again the administrative district of Leipzig . Spatially, the administrative district of Leipzig coincided with the district of Leipzig except for the districts of Altenburg and Schmölln , which have belonged to Thuringia since then and were united to the district of Altenburger Land in 1994 .

Population development

year	1837	1849	1871	1900	1939
Residents	367.753	428,532	589.377	1,060,632	1,379,165

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Andreas Oettel: On the administrative structure of Saxony in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony (Ed.): Statistics in Saxony . 175 years of official statistics in Saxony (Festschrift). 12th year, no. 1 , 2006, ISSN 0949-4480 , p. 69–98 ( PDF (6.28 MB) [accessed December 23, 2012]).
↑ Continuation of the list of holders of the highest and highest Saxon state offices for the period from 1831 to the present . In: Calendar for the Saxon state official to the year 1932 . Dresden 1932, p. 191. Dr. Lempe was appointed district chief on July 1, 1924, but did not take up his post, but was given leave until February 1925 and then resigned from civil service.
^ Landesdirektion Leipzig: The leaders of the Leipzig central authority. ( Memento from March 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Source: State Archives Leipzig)

[sachsen-1] A ^b Andreas Oettel: On the administrative structure of Saxony in the 19th and 20th centuries . In: State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony (Ed.): Statistics in Saxony . 175 years of official statistics in Saxony (Festschrift). 12th year, no. 1 , 2006, ISSN 0949-4480 , p. 69–98 ( PDF (6.28 MB) [accessed December 23, 2012]).

[2] Continuation of the list of holders of the highest and highest Saxon state offices for the period from 1831 to the present . In: Calendar for the Saxon state official to the year 1932 . Dresden 1932, p. 191. Dr. Lempe was appointed district chief on July 1, 1924, but did not take up his post, but was given leave until February 1925 and then resigned from civil service.

[3] Landesdirektion Leipzig: The leaders of the Leipzig central authority. ( Memento from March 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Source: State Archives Leipzig)