District of Calbe a./S.

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Seal mark of the royal Prussian district administrator of the Calbe district

The district of Calbe a./S. (= on the Saale) existed in Prussia , the Soviet Zone and the GDR from 1816 to 1950.

Administrative history

Kingdom of Prussia

As part of the Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna , the district of Calbe was established in the administrative district of Magdeburg in the province of Saxony on July 1, 1816 . The district office was in Calbe . The spelling of the district fluctuated between Calbe, Calbe an der Saale and most recently Calbe a./S.

North German Confederation / German Empire

Since July 1, 1867, the district belonged to the North German Confederation and from January 1, 1871 to the German Empire . On April 1, 1913, the communities Elbenau and Grünewalde from the Jerichow I district were incorporated into the town of Schönebeck in the Calbe district.

On September 30, 1929, in the district of Calbe a./S. In line with the development in the rest of the Free State of Prussia, a territorial reform took place in which all independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. On January 1, 1939, the district of Calbe a./S. according to the now imperial regulation the designation district . After the dissolution of the province of Saxony on July 1, 1944, the district became part of the new province of Magdeburg . In the spring of 1945 the district was occupied by the US armed forces.

German Democratic Republic

In 1945, the Soviet military administration united the two provinces of Magdeburg and Halle-Merseburg , the Free State of Anhalt and parts of Braunschweig to form the new province of Saxony. On July 23, 1945 the provincial government set up three district administrations (Dessau for the former Free State of Anhalt, Magdeburg for the former Province of Magdeburg and Merseburg for the former Province of Halle-Merseburg), the Calbe district initially came to the Magdeburg district, but changed on February 10, 1946 in the administrative district of Dessau . On January 10, 1947, the province of Saxony adopted the name Land Sachsen-Anhalt , soon afterwards on February 25, 1947, the Allied Control Council declared the Free State of Prussia dissolved. On June 30, 1947, Saxony-Anhalt dissolved the districts as the middle administrative level. The first administrative reform in the GDR took place on July 1, 1950 :

In the course of the major administrative reform of July 25, 1952 , there were further changes to the area:

Population development

year Residents source
1816 34,086
1843 48,073
1871 75,451
1890 99,857
1900 107,532
1910 108,798
1925 111.215
1933 112,490
1939 117,332
1946 117,731

District administrators

  • 1816–1818 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steinäcker
  • 1818–1858 Franz von Steinäcker
  • 1858–1880 Bruno von Steinäcker
  • 1880–1884 Justus Philipp Harte
  • 1884–1889 Ernst Mejer
  • 1889–1911 Max Hermann Pape
  • 1911–1919 Ludwig Kothe
  • 1919–1922 Karl Bergemann (1878–1949)
  • 1922–1932 Otto Voss
  • 1932–1940 Theodor Parisius (1896–1985)
  • 1940–1945 Bodo von Alvensleben (1882–1961)

Local constitution

The district of Calbe a./S. was divided into cities, rural communities and - until their dissolution in 1929 - into independent manor districts. With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitutional Law of December 15, 1933 and the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, the leader principle was enforced at the municipal level on April 1, 1935 . A new district constitution was no longer created; The district regulations for the provinces of East and West Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia and Saxony from March 19, 1881 continued to apply.

cities and communes

Status 1945

The district of Calbe a./S. 1945 comprised five cities and 37 other municipalities:

Municipalities dissolved before 1950

  • Bisdorf , 1937 in Borne
  • Felgeleben , 1923 to Schönebeck
  • Frohse , on February 1, 1932 at Schönebeck-Bad Salzelmen
  • Hohendorf , in 1928 to Neugattersleben-Hohendorf
  • Bad Salzelmen , on February 1, 1932 in Schönebeck-Bad Salzelmen

Name changes

Web links

Commons : District of Calbe a./S.  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b genealogy.net: District of Calbe
  2. ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative district of Magdeburg, p. 329 ( digitized version [accessed July 5, 2016]).
  3. ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, p. 94 ( digitized version [accessed on July 6, 2016]).
  4. ↑ Royal Statistical Office of Prussia (ed.): The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Saxony. Publishing house d. Royal Extra Bureaus, Berlin 1873 ( digitized [accessed July 5, 2016]).
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Calbe district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ↑ 1946 census