Lip punctures

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The Lippe punctures of December 5, 1946 are an agreement between the state governments of North Rhine-Westphalia and the state of Lippe , which established "guidelines" for the treatment of the Lippe part of the state after the state of Lippe was incorporated into North Rhine-Westphalia. The incorporation itself took place with the announcement of the British Military Ordinance No. 77 of January 21, 1947.

history

After the Second World War , the British occupation authorities carried out a territorial reorganization of their zone. In the north, the federal states of Braunschweig , Hanover (which had only recently emerged from the Prussian province of Hanover), Oldenburg and Schaumburg-Lippe became the new state of Lower Saxony . In the west, the northern part of the Prussian Rhine province was merged with the Prussian province of Westphalia to form the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. What remained was the country of Lippe, which was given the choice of the British occupying power to decide to integrate into one of the two countries.

The Social Democratic Prime Minister of the State of Lippe, Heinrich Drake , negotiated with both state governments in order to preserve as much independence as possible for Lippe. Lower Saxony's willingness to meet Lippe's wishes was limited, as the other formerly independent areas could possibly have derived claims.

The concessions made by North Rhine-Westphalia went much further. Therefore, Lippe chose this country. The conditions of incorporation and the special rights of Lippe were specified in the Lippe punctuation. These determined that the former state assets did not fall to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, but should be administered by its own institution, the Lippe regional association founded in 1949 . In addition to the former possessions of the Lippe princely family, this also included other institutions in the State of Lippe, such as the State Theater Detmold , the Lippe State Library Detmold and the state baths in Bad Salzuflen and Bad Meinberg . It was also determined that the former state capital Detmold should become the seat of a government president. In this context, the administrative district of Minden was dissolved and a new administrative district of Detmold was founded (initially under the name of Minden-Lippe ). In the school question it was determined that Lippe should keep the community school instead of the denominational school .

These agreements between Drake and the Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Rudolf Amelunxen , were confirmed by the Lippe state parliament and the cabinet in Düsseldorf as Lippe punctures in early December 1946. In the preamble of the law on the unification of the state of Lippe with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, reference was made to the punctures.

In December 2009, Prime Minister Jürgen Rüttgers confirmed the validity of the Lippe punctuation.

See also

literature

  • Friedel Heuwinkel: From Principality to Part of the Country. 60 years of Lippe in North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Landkreistag NRW, download page express service 2007 05-2007, pages 25–28 (PDF; 4.2 MB).
  • Walter Först: A short history of North Rhine-Westphalia . Düsseldorf 1986, p. 37f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Announcement of the British Military Ordinance No. 77 of January 21, 1947 (PDF; 476 kB), reproduced in the lwl.org portal of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Association, accessed on January 31, 2012
  2. ^ Law on the unification of the state of Lippe with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . In: Law and Ordinance Gazette of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . Born in 1949, p. 267 ( [1] )
  3. ↑ Article in the Lippische Landes-Zeitung of December 21, 2009: Rüttgers praises Lippe and the regional association - Prime Minister renews the validity of the agreements between NRW and Lippe during a visit to Detmold. Quote from Jürgen Rüttgers: "These punctuations will also apply in the future" [2]

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