Lauenburg regional association

Seal mark Lauenburgischer Landes-Kommunalverband

The Lauenburgische Landeskommunalverband (also Landeskommunalverband Kreis Herzogtum Lauenburg ) was a corporation under public law for the self-administration of the affairs of the municipalities of the state. As a higher municipal association , it initially existed for the four offices of Lauenburg an der Elbe, Ratzeburg, Schwarzenbek and Steinhorst in Saxony-Lauenburg , into which the municipalities of the duchy were divided. The duchy was incorporated into the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein on July 1, 1876 as the district of Duchy of Lauenburg . The state municipal association was stripped of its self-governing bodies in 1933 and lost its sovereign tasks in 1937 as a result of the Greater Hamburg Act . It was not revived after 1945.

history

The association was founded on December 7th, 1872 by the law regarding the transfer of the administration of the domain property to the state communal association and the knight and landscape association , which was united in 1585, was appointed as its representative. The knight and landscape elected from among its members the district council as executive for the association, which was headed by the owner of the Gudow estate as hereditary land marshal . If aristocratic members previously dominated the state parliament, the constitutional patent of the Duke, Frederick VII of Denmark , dated December 20, 1853, stipulated that the 15 members of parliament consisted of five representatives each from the cities, the farmers and the goods eligible for the state parliament.

The state communal association also took over the former ducal church patronage in the churches with regard to the “whole country”, with the exception of the cities and aristocratic estates. When the Lutheran Lauenburg regional church was incorporated into that of Schleswig-Holstein in 1876/1877, the Lauenburg church patronage was confirmed. The state municipal association provided wood and grain debts, grants for pastors' salaries, pastor's pensions and widow's payments and a contribution to the salary of the superintendent of the Lauenburg regional church or Lauenburg regional superintendent (until 1979), most recently paid by the legal successor of the Duchy of Lauenburg. 1977 to 1979 the burdens from the patronage were largely replaced, only the burden on the forests of the state municipal association (today of the district) to provide timber for the construction and maintenance of the church has been converted into a payment to this day. At the suggestion of the district of Lauenburg , the chairman of the state municipal association appointed patronage representatives for the church and chapel communities under his patronage.

As part of Prussia , the state parliament in Berlin has been the parliamentary representative of the Duchy of Lauenburg since the incorporation of Saxony-Lauenburg in 1876. However, since the district council under Hereditary Marshal Friedrich Gottlieb von Bülow and the Minister for Lauenburg, Otto von Bismarck had been tenaciously negotiating the preservation of independence from 1869 , the Duke, Wilhelm I of Prussia , confessed to the state by contract on June 19, 1871 about five sevenths of the ducal domanium . On June 24, 1871, Bismarck received the remaining ducal share "in recognition of his services as an endowment to property". The other five sevenths on the domanium became the basis of the property of the state municipal association. Endowed in this way, the knight and landscape retained some room for maneuver for the time after the tax sovereignty would have passed to Prussia. The knight and landscape met in Ratzeburg in the landscape house, built in 1859/1860.

On June 23, 1876, the Ritter- und Landschaft approved the law relating to the unification of the Duchy of Lauenburg with the Prussian monarchy . "The Duchy of Lauenburg will be forever united with the Prussian monarchy from July 1, 1876 in accordance with Art. 2 of the constitutional charter for the Prussian state", reads § 1. Important for the state municipal association was § 7: "To the provincial association of Schleswig-Holstein the Duchy takes no part. ”The four Lauenburg offices were dissolved as intermediate authorities and their tasks were transferred to the new Duchy of Lauenburg district.

In 1875/1876 all Prussian provinces received newly drafted parliaments, the provincial parliaments, and the Prussian districts each formed a higher municipal association at the provincial level called the Provincial Association . In the district of the Duchy of Lauenburg, its tasks were taken over by the existing state municipal association.

The regional association was responsible for economic and social policy, for cultural promotion and settlement and transport planning. The knight and landscape, which continued to exist as a kind of special parliament, determined the fate of the state communal association according to § 8 (2) of the Unification Act. This changed in 1882 when the district order for the six eastern provinces of Prussia from 1872 was introduced in the Duchy of Lauenburg. The ordinance of August 24, 1882, concerning the representation of the Lauenburg regional municipal association , repealed the knighthood and landscape of the Duchy of Lauenburg with effect from October 1, 1882, but a district assembly was formed for the Duchy of Lauenburg district according to special regulations that differ from the regular District regulations for Schleswig-Holstein until 1919 differed. The ordinance stipulated in Article V (Paragraph 4) that the regional association of municipalities had to give itself a statute which regulates the administration of the property and the participation of the district. From 1882 the district administrator led the presidency. The introduction of the district order for the province of Schleswig-Holstein on May 26, 1888 (Preuss. Law Collection p. 139, § 145) continued the special status.

District administrator Friedrich von Bülow convinced the district assembly in 1905 to introduce a district levy, which significantly improved the financial situation. He reorganized budget and accounting and had the road and path network significantly expanded during his tenure (1900–1907). The operation of the extensive forests of the state municipal association with its significant income was also rationalized.

After the November Revolution of 1918, general and direct suffrage was introduced for all district assemblies, so that the special provisions for Lauenburg were greatly minimized, but the state municipal association continued to exist until 1945. Curth Schönberg , district administrator from 1919 to 1927, founded the Lauenburgische Landeskraftwerke AG (LAULA) in 1924 with funds from the regional municipal association. During his term of office there were several attempts by the Prussian state government to reduce Lauenburg's special rights. Schönberg was able to prevent the parcelling and settlement of individual domains of the state municipal association. In 1925 Schönberg refused to hold the elections for the Provincial Parliament, the representation of the Schleswig-Holstein Provincial Association, in his circle, which as direct elections were in contradiction to the Unification Act of 1876, according to which the district was not part of the association. By order of the Prussian Interior Ministry, he had to make up for the elections in January 1926. Schönberg was warned and had to pay a fine. At the instigation of the Ministry of the Interior, he was finally given leave of absence in 1927 and put into temporary retirement in 1931. However, he moved to LAULA as a board member and later a supervisory board member.

With the second implementing ordinance to the law on Greater Hamburg and other territorial consolidations ( Greater Hamburg Act ) of March 11, 1937, the public rights and obligations to which the district was previously entitled as a regional association were transferred to the provincial association. The property including the domanium remained with the district. The district thus lost its special position in the financial sector, which led to the conversion of the Landesbank into the Kreissparkasse Herzogtum Lauenburg . The regional communal association became the district communal association with considerably fewer rights.

Head of the state municipal association

The executive, Landratskollegium (1853-1876), Landschaftskollegium (1876-1882) or district committee (from 1882) called, led until 1882 by the chairman of the knight and landscape, the Erblandmarschall von Lauenburg. From 1882 the district councilor elected by the district assembly (district assembly from 1919) took over. After the abolition of local democracy in 1933, appointed district administrators followed.

1858–1882: Friedrich Gottlieb von Bülow ( Free Conservative Party ), hereditary land marshal
1882–1897: Oskar von Dolega-Kozierowski as elected district administrator
1897–1900: Count Konrad Finck von Finckenstein , as elected district administrator
1900–1907: Friedrich von Bülow , as elected district administrator
1907–1919: Emil Mathis , as elected district administrator
1919–1927: Curth Schönberg ( DNVP ), as elected district administrator, on leave and in 1931 put into temporary retirement
1927–1933: Gustav Voigt , as elected district administrator
1933–1945: vacancy, district council canceled
- 1933–1938: Theodor Fründt ( NSDAP ), managing director as appointed district administrator
- 1939–1945: Erich Jüttner (NSDAP), managing as appointed district administrator, represented from 1942 by Traugott von Heintze

bibliography

Report on the administration and the status of the affairs of the district and regional association of the Duchy of Lauenburg for the year 1908 , the district and regional association of the Duchy of Lauenburg (ed.)

Report on the state of affairs of the Duchy of Lauenburg District and State Municipal Association for the year ... (1909–1918, 1921–1931), Duchy of Lauenburg District and State Municipal Association (ed.), Published for the years 1909–1918, 1921–1931

Budget of the Lauenburg State Municipal Association , Lauenburg State Municipal Association (ed.), 1901–1936

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k N.N., "History of the Circle" ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to: District of the Duchy of Lauenburg ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 19, 2013. @1@ 2 @1@ 2

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f See constitutional patent for the Duchy of Lauenburg , on: Constitutions of the World , accessed on June 19, 2013.

↑ Paragraph 5 of the law of December 7, 1872 reads: “The state communal association assumes all the rights of the [former ducal] manorial estate and all obligations that follow from the manorial relationship with regard to the Lauenburg domination. In particular, the state municipal association has to assume all services based on the patronage at its own expense. "

↑ See Section 70 of the Church Community and Synodal Regulations for Schleswig-Holstein of November 4, 1876

↑ Now the district administrator appoints the patronage representatives.

↑ ^a ^b ^c See law regarding the unification of the Duchy of Lauenburg with the Prussian monarchy , on: Constitution of the World , accessed on June 19, 2013.

↑ However, several amalgamations of small and very small communities emerged in the district, which, in contrast to the dissolved Lauenburg offices, were initially called administrative districts and were later called offices again.

↑ For the Hohenzollern Lands , which emerged from the principalities of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Hohenzollern-Hechingen, which were merged with Prussia in 1850, the State Communal Association of the Hohenzollern Lands had existed since 1873 .

↑ ^a ^b See ordinance concerning the representation of the Lauenburg regional municipal association of August 24, 1882 (Preußische Gesetz-Sammlung, p. 343), on: Constitution of the World , accessed on June 19, 2013.

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d N.N., "Curth Schönberg" , on: the virtual museum , accessed on June 19, 2013.

↑ Second implementing ordinance to the law on Greater Hamburg and other territorial consolidations (Greater Hamburg Act) , Section 8. (2)

[Geschichte_des_Kreises-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k N.N., "History of the Circle" ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to: District of the Duchy of Lauenburg ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 19, 2013. @1@ 2 @1@ 2

[Verfassung_1853-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f See constitutional patent for the Duchy of Lauenburg , on: Constitutions of the World , accessed on June 19, 2013.

[3] Paragraph 5 of the law of December 7, 1872 reads: “The state communal association assumes all the rights of the [former ducal] manorial estate and all obligations that follow from the manorial relationship with regard to the Lauenburg domination. In particular, the state municipal association has to assume all services based on the patronage at its own expense. "

[4] See Section 70 of the Church Community and Synodal Regulations for Schleswig-Holstein of November 4, 1876

[5] Now the district administrator appoints the patronage representatives.

[Vereinigungsgesetz_1876-6] See law regarding the unification of the Duchy of Lauenburg with the Prussian monarchy , on: Constitution of the World , accessed on June 19, 2013.

[7] However, several amalgamations of small and very small communities emerged in the district, which, in contrast to the dissolved Lauenburg offices, were initially called administrative districts and were later called offices again.

[8] For the Hohenzollern Lands , which emerged from the principalities of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Hohenzollern-Hechingen, which were merged with Prussia in 1850, the State Communal Association of the Hohenzollern Lands had existed since 1873 .

[Verordnung_1882-9] See ordinance concerning the representation of the Lauenburg regional municipal association of August 24, 1882 (Preußische Gesetz-Sammlung, p. 343), on: Constitution of the World , accessed on June 19, 2013.

[Schönberg-10] N.N., "Curth Schönberg" , on: the virtual museum , accessed on June 19, 2013.

[11] Second implementing ordinance to the law on Greater Hamburg and other territorial consolidations (Greater Hamburg Act) , Section 8. (2)