Upper Hesse (Kurhessische Province)
The province of Upper Hesse was an administrative district of the middle level of the Electorate of Hesse and existed, with the exception of the years 1848-1852, from 1821 until it was abolished in 1868 as a result of the annexation of Electorate Hesse by Prussia .
history
In the course of the administrative reform of the Electorate of Hesse in 1821, after Elector Wilhelm II took office , the administration of the state was restructured by an organizational edict and the administrative structure of the Electorate of Hesse , which had been adopted from the 18th century, was replaced. The country was divided into four provinces and 22 counties. One of these provinces created by ordinance of August 30, 1821 was the province of Upper Hesse .
On October 31, 1848, as part of the March Revolution, the Hessian provinces and districts were abolished. They were replaced by nine districts and 21 administrative offices. The previous districts of Marburg , Frankenberg and Kirchhain formed the district of Marburg , while the district of Ziegenhain became part of the Fritzlar district . On September 15, 1851, this was reversed as part of the reaction of the now ruling Elector Friedrich Wilhelm and the administrative structure from 1821 was restored.
In the German War of 1866, the Electorate of Hesse-Kassel was occupied by Prussia and finally annexed. For the annexed areas this meant that in 1868 they were given an administration based on the Prussian model. While rural districts represented a unit compatible with the Prussian administration and were therefore taken over unchanged, this did not apply to the provinces of the Electorate of Hesse. These were repealed without replacement, the former Kurhessischen districts directly subordinate to the administrative district Kassel .
structure
The provincial capital was Marburg . Upper Kurhessen was divided into four groups divided:
District President
The administrative head of the province was the provincial government, headed by the district president.
District President
- 1821–1830: Ferdinand Karl Wilhelm Heinrich von Schenck zu Schweinsberg
- 1831–1833: Karl Georg August Schönhals
- 1833–1846: Karl Emil Heinrich Freiherr von Dörnberg
- 1846–1848: Philipp Friedrich Karl Lotz
After the restoration of the province of Upper Hesse, the head of administration was given the title of "Board member of the renewed government of the province of Upper Hesse"
- (1851) 1852–1865: August Emil Wegner
literature
- Thomas Klein: Volume 11: Hessen-Nassau. In: Walther Hubatsch: Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945. 1979, ISBN 3-87969-126-6 , pp. 86-87.
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