Land Commissioner Germersheim

The Landkommissariat Germersheim in der Pfalz 1818–1862

The Landkommissariat Germersheim (officially: Land-Commissariat Germersheim ) was one of twelve administrative districts in the Bavarian Rhine District (renamed "Kreis Pfalz" in 1837), which existed from 1818 and was renamed in 1862 as the District Office Germersheim . His spatially largely identical successor (apart from the reclassification of Hayna ) is today's district of Germersheim in Rhineland-Palatinate . The eponymous administrative headquarters were already in Germersheim at that time .

history

On April 30, 1816, the Bavarian King Maximilian Joseph I formally took possession of the area of ​​the Rhine district, which was later established, on the basis of an exchange agreement with the Austrian Emperor Franz I.

From the so-called French era , Bavaria in the Palatinate initially essentially adopted the administrative structure that had been in place since 1798. The newly created Rhine district was divided into four district directorates , later also called district directorates . The subordinate administrative levels of the cantons and mayor's offices , apart from minor regional adjustments, remained in place.

The area of ​​the Landkommissariat Germersheim belonged to the Donnersberg department ( Canton Germersheim ) until 1814 and to the Lower Rhine department ( Canton Kandel ) until 1815 . After Bavaria took possession and the district directorates were set up, the area belonged to the Landau district directorate.

With effect from April 1, 1818, the districts of the previous four "Bezirks-Directionen" of the Rhine district were redistributed into twelve "Land Commissariats". The scope and responsibilities did not change. Peter Anton Müller was appointed the first “Land Commissary” . The Land Commissioner had an actuary , two clerks and a messenger at his disposal, and salaries and office costs were estimated at 3900  guilders per year.

On July 1, 1862, the state commissariats in the Palatinate were named district offices , from which the districts emerged through renaming according to the Third Ordinance on the Rebuilding of the Reich of November 28, 1938 with effect from January 1, 1939 .

Land commissioners

The Land Commissioner in Germersheim was headed by five Land Commissioners (their dates in brackets):

• 1818 to 1839: Peter Anton Müller (1775–1839)
• 1839 to 1848: Georg Mayr (1806–1875)
• 1848 to 1850: Maximilian "Max" de Lamotte (1809–1887)
• 1850 to 1853: Ludwig Kollmann (1810–1887)
• 1853 to 1862: Joseph Megele (1804–1867); was then district administrator of the district office of Germersheim until 1867

structure

The Landkommissariat Germersheim was divided into the cantons of Germersheim and Kandel and comprised 36 municipalities (all places in the official spelling from 1817):

Canton of Germersheim

Bellheim Freisbach Germersheim Heard Knittelsheim Leimersheim and Kuhardt

Lingenfeld New Pfotz Nieder-Lustadt Ober-Lustadt Ottersheim Schwegenheim

Sondernheim Vineyard Westheim Zeißkamm

Canton of Kandel

mountain Büchelberg Erlenbach Freckenfeld Hagenbach on the Rhine Hatzenbühl Hayna

Jockgrim Candelabra Minfeld Neuburg Pforz Rhine-Zabern Rülzheim

Schaidt Scheibenhard Steinweiler Volmersweiler Winches Wörth

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Official Journal for the Kings. Bavarian area on the left bank of the Rhine from July 1, 1816: Possession patent from April 30, 1816 ( bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de )
2. ↑ Official Journal for the Kings. Bavarian area on the left bank of the Rhine from July 25, 1816: Announcement of July 22, 1816, list of the cantons belonging to the district directorates ( bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de )
3. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Bavarian government of the Rhine district of February 18, 1818: Highest Rescript of November 6, 1817, announcement of February 17, 1818, introduction of the Land Commissariate ( bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de )
4. ↑ Royal Bavarian District Official Gazette of the Palatinate of May 22, 1862: Royal Very Highest Ordinance of April 19, 1862, changing the designation of the Land Commissariate of the Palatinate ( bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de )
5. ↑ RGBl. I p. 1675: Third ordinance on the rebuilding of the empire. Reich Ministry of the Interior , November 28, 1938, accessed on August 28, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Ludwig Hans : Von Landkommissären, Bezirksamtmännern and Landräter , in: Landkreis Germersheim ( Ed. ): Series of publications on the history of the Landkreis Germersheim , Volume 1, Germersheim 2010, pp. 323-330
7. ↑ Ludwig Hans : Germersheim Land Commissioners of the 19th Century: Biographical Notes on Peter Anton Müller, Georg Mayr, Maximilian de Lamotte, Ludwig Kollmann and Joseph Megele , in: Landkreis Germersheim ( ed. ): Series of publications on the history of the Landkreis Germersheim , Volume 2, Germersheim 2012, pp. 199-234
8. ^ Official Journal of the Royal Bavarian government of the Rhine district of November 26, 1817: Announcement of November 17, 1817, cantonal division of the Rhine district ( bavarica.digitale-sammlungen.de )