Wanzleben district

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Official seal of the Westeregeln district of Wanzleben

The district of Wanzleben , until 1939 Kreis Wanzleben , was a district that existed from 1816 to 1952 in the Prussian province of Saxony and in the state of Saxony-Anhalt of the Soviet zone of occupation and the GDR .

Administrative history

Kingdom of Prussia

As part of the Prussian administrative reforms after the Congress of Vienna , the Wanzleben district was established on July 1, 1816 in the administrative district of Magdeburg in the province of Saxony . The district office was in Wanzleben , but from 1844 to 1848 it was in Klein Oschersleben . The municipality of Buckau was elevated to a town in 1859 and in 1862 it was reclassified from the Wanzleben district to the Magdeburg district.

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, 1910, the urban district of Magdeburg was enlarged by the rural communities of Fermersleben , Lemsdorf , Salbke and Westerhüsen of the Wanzleben district. On April 1, 1926, the rural community of Diesdorf from the Wanzleben district was incorporated into the Magdeburg district.

On September 30, 1929, a territorial reform took place in the Wanzleben district as in the rest of the Free State of Prussia , in which all independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. The Gehringsdorf estate district from the Wanzleben district was incorporated into the Wormsdorf community in the Neuhaldensleben district. From 1 January 1939, the county Wanzleben led the designation according to the rich now unified control district . After the dissolution of the province of Saxony on July 1, 1944, the district belonged to the new province of Magdeburg , administrative district of Magdeburg. In the spring of 1945 the area was occupied by the American Allied forces.

Soviet occupation zone / German Democratic Republic

In the course of the administrative reform of 1952 in the GDR, extensive changes were made to the delimitation of the district:

Federal Republic of Germany

After the reunification of the two Germanys the circle Wanzleben was founded in 1990 in the back country of Saxony-Anhalt to the district Wanzleben , who in the district reform of 1994 in Bördekreis opened.

Population development

year Residents source
1816 30.106
1843 41,984
1871 66,768
1890 77,884
1900 84,376
1910 69,463
1925 71,713
1933 66,966
1939 67,256
1946 93.991

Among the inhabitants of the district in 1939 were 81.6% Evangelicals, 12.6% Catholics, 0.6% other Christians, 5.2% other and 8 Jews.

Local constitution until 1945

The district of Wanzleben was divided into cities, rural communities and - until their complete 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.

District administrators

  • 1816–1844 Christoph von Alemann on Benneckenbeck
  • 1844–1848 Hans Friedrich Wilhelm von Kotze
  • 1848-1851 Brenning
  • 1851 -9999 Guido Hermann August von Skal ( acting )
  • 1851–1883 ​​Simon Bernhard von Lavière
  • 1883–1899 Hans Ludolf von Kotze
  • 1899–1904 Ernst Josef von Mikusch-Buchberg
  • 1904–1907 Georg Gottfried von Jacobi
  • 1907–1915 Hans Peter von Kotze (1873–1915)
  • 1915–1917 Max Rudolf Carl von Bahrfeldt
  • 1917–1919 Karl Albert Ludwig von Doetinchem de Rande
  • 1919 -9999 Hermann Müller
  • 1919–1922 Friedrich Hahn
  • 1922–1926 Wilhelm Kehling
  • 1926–1929 Paul Runge (1877–1948)
  • 1929–1933 Hellmuth Baumann
  • 1933 -9999 Philipp Harte ( acting )
  • 1933–1935 Horst von Windheim (1886–1935)
  • 1935– Steinmeyer0000
  • 1944–1945 Heinrich Teipel (1885–1945)

cities and communes

As of 1939

In 1939, the Wanzleben district comprised four cities and 35 other municipalities:

Communities dissolved or left before 1939

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official Journal of the Government of Magdeburg 1861, p. 218
  2. ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative district of Magdeburg, p. 330 ( digitized version [accessed July 5, 2016]).
  3. ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, p. 165 ( 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 h Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wanzleben district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  6. ↑ 1946 census

Web links

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