District Office (Landgraviate Hessen-Kassel)
District offices were lower-level administrative authorities in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel between 1774 and 1798.
In the middle of the 18th century, the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel had a historically evolved structure of very different offices that simultaneously performed administrative and judicial functions. There was no systematic administrative structure. In the area of the judiciary, Hessen-Kassel received this in 1742. Accordingly, the Kassel Higher Appeal Court was created as the highest court, including the government colleges in Kassel, Marburg, Hanau and Rinteln as the middle courts. On the lower level, the separation of the judiciary from the administration was not implemented.
Landgrave Friedrich II recruited the Prussian chamber director Heinrich Christian Bopp and commissioned him to work out an administrative reform. The core of the proposal was the formation of 10 district offices, each headed by a noble state parliament based on the Prussian model. These district offices should take on administrative tasks for the offices below them, the offices themselves should be responsible for voluntary jurisdiction and jurisdiction. With the consent of the estates , this was implemented in 1774. The pay was also more modern. While the civil officials in the offices only very low barge container received and from Naturalabgaben and especially perquisites financed, the district administrators received a fixed salary of 1000 taler annually.
An opposition to the district offices soon arose in the urban curia of the estates. The cities criticized the cost of the district administrators and their work. In 1779, the cities initially unsuccessfully applied for the abolition of the district offices. Eight years later, the cities were successful and the Landgrave approved the abolition of the district offices with a state parliament on March 14, 1798. The knighthood agreed after the outgoing district administrators had been promised generous pensions.
literature
- Stefan Brankensiek: Fürstendiener-Staatsbeamte-Bürger, 1999, ISBN 3-525-35677-3 , pp. 37, 38, 40, 53 ff., 164 ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Parliament adopted on May 15, 1779