Oberpostdirektion Darmstadt

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The Oberpostdirektion Darmstadt was the Oberpostdirektion with its seat in Darmstadt from 1867 to 1934 .

prehistory

In 1627 the first regional post office was set up in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt . Every Monday a messenger went from Darmstadt to Marburg an der Lahn and transported official documents as Canzleypost . With an ordinance of March 31, 1730, the Canzleypost was converted into a public post that everyone can use. This led to conflicts with the Reichspost. Therefore, the Thurn and Taxis and Landgrave Ludwig VIII concluded a "Convention on the order of the postal service in the high-prince's Darmstadt lands" on April 28, 1744.

As part of the Reichsdeputation Hauptschluss , Hessen-Darmstadt received the Duchy of Westphalia as the third province (alongside the province of Starkenburg and the province of Upper Hesse ) in 1803 . Now a general postal commission was formed in Darmstadt, which was subordinate to three postal deputations in the provincial capitals Darmstadt, Giessen and Arnsberg .

In order to avoid conflicts with the imperial post office operated by the Thurn und Taxis , an agreement was made on April 22, 1804 between the Landgraviate and Thurn und Taxis. In this contract, a Landgravial Upper Post Office was created in Darmstadt . This was a middle authority that was supposed to coordinate the activities of the landgrave's post and the imperial post.

With the establishment of the Rhine Confederation and the end of the HRR , the basis of the imperial post ended. The Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt, which had now risen to become the Grand Duchy of Hesse , claimed the post office shelf , but in the postal loan agreement of June 28, 1807, entrusted the execution of the post to the Princes of Thurn and Taxis. The Landespost went to Thurn und Taxis , the Ober-Post-Direktion was dissolved. It was replaced by the Ober-Post-Inspection , which was the central postal authority in the Grand Duchy for the next 60 years. After the Congress of Vienna , a second postal loan agreement was concluded on March 31, 1818, which confirmed the status quo.

The Prussian Oberpostdirektion

After the victory in the Austro-Prussian War , Hessen-Darmstadt and Prussia signed a peace treaty on September 3, 1866, in which Darmstadt ceded all postal traffic to Prussia. The prerequisite for this should be an agreement between Prussia and Thurn und Taxis. This took place in an assignment agreement between Thurn und Taxis, in which the Prussian state was given the postal facilities in return for compensation. The treaty was ratified on January 28, 1867, and delivery took place on July 1, 1867.

The Ober-Post-Inspection Darmstadt was abolished and a Royal Prussian Oberpostdirektion Darmstadt based on the Prussian model was established. Below this Oberpostdirektion (as of 1875) there were ten first class post offices (in Alzey , Bensheim , Bingen am Rhein , Darmstadt, Friedberg , Gießen, Lauterbach , Mainz Offenbach and Worms ).

Another story

The Oberpostdirektion (which was the authority of Prussia, the North German Confederation and the German Empire ) grew rapidly. The 1,302 employees grew to 3,922 in 1900 and 5,395 in 1913. 16.6 million letters were sent in 1880, 60.7 million in 1900 and 112.9 million in 1920. In 1906 one of the first two Kraftpost lines was set up in the area of ​​the Darmstadt Oberpostdirektion (Friedberg to Ranstadt ).

After the First World War , a quarter of the area of ​​the district was occupied by a third of the population. On November 11, 1918, at the end of the First World War, it was agreed in the Compiègne armistice that the areas on the left bank of the Rhine as well as the areas on the right bank of the Rhine should be occupied by French troops within a 30 km radius around strategic bridgeheads (here the Mainz bridgehead ). A separate postal administration was therefore set up in Mainz for the occupied territories.

In the Simplification Act of February 27, 1934, the Oberpostdirektion Darmstadt was abolished and assigned to the district of the Oberpostdirektion Frankfurt . (RGBl. I, p. 130).

After the Second World War , Darmstadt was again the seat of central postal authorities in 1949 with the Central Telecommunications Office and the Central Postal Office .

people

Head of the Oberpostdirektion Darmstadt were:

  • Chief Post Director von Vahl (1866–1872)
  • Gottlieb Deininger (1872–1880)
  • Hagemann (1880–1888)
  • Robert Clavel (1888-1897)
  • Maier (1987-1900)
  • Holfeld (1900–1902)
  • Gustav Kobelt (1902–1910)
  • Milkau (1910-1922)
  • Straw (1922-1924)
  • Lenhard (1928–1928)
  • Leister (1928–1933)
  • Chief Post Councilor Jacobi (1933–1934)

literature

  • One hundred years of the Oberpostdirektion Frankfurt am Main, 1867-1967 , ed. Oberpostdirektion Frankfurt am Main 1967, pp. 81–85

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