Oberpostdirektion Hannover
The Oberpostdirektion Hannover was a Oberpostdirektion established on January 1, 1867 in Hannover . It existed until January 1, 1995, when Deutsche Post AG took over its duties.
history
The Hanover Postal Directorate was set up in 1867 together with the Oberpostdirektion Kiel, Frankfurt am Main, Kassel and Darmstadt . At this point in time there were already 26 authorities of this kind in Prussia . There were also post offices or higher post offices in Bavaria , Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Saxony and Württemberg . The Prussian Upper Postal Directorate was founded in 1850 at the instigation of the General Postal Director Heinrich Schmückert . Its establishment was preceded by decades of efforts to decentralize the postal administration business.
On January 1, 1867, the General Post Directorate in Hanover was replaced by an Ober-Post Directorate with the duties and powers of the similar authorities already existing in Prussia. Twenty Prussian post officials stood ready to "facilitate the acquisition of the new forms, especially in expedition and accounting" for the Hanoverians.
The General Post Office in Berlin had sent three officials at the end of October 1866 to prepare for the changeover. These were the postal councilor Schiffmann, who was supposed to be the head of the Hanover postal directorate, and the secret calculators Wittmann and Schmücker. The outgoing General Postal Director of Brandis, the last head of the Hanoverian postal system, retired after 54 years of service.
From January 1, 1868, the OPD Hanover was one of the 35 upper post offices of the North German Confederation , whose federal postal administration Prussia brought 31 departments, the states of Braunschweig , Saxony, Oldenburg, Mecklenburg four departments and the Hanseatic cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck their upper post offices. The postal system for the entire area of the North German Confederation was to be set up and administered as a uniform state transport authority.
From 1871 Hanover was a senior post office of the Reichspost .
building
The Oberpostdirektion Hannover started its activities in the building of the former Generalpostdirektorium at Theaterstrasse 3. In 1867 there were 20 postal secretaries, 4 assistants, 30 conductors and 3 office servants in the Hanoverian railway post office. 100 years later there were over 1,300 postal workers.
There was also an independent telegraph office in Hanover until 1900, which also provided the local telephone service. The other telegraph stations were attached to the postal service. In 1901 a city telephone exchange was set up in Hanover, and in 1906 a telegraph office in Hildesheim. In 1920 telegraph construction offices were set up in the cities of Hanover, Hildesheim and Uelzen.
In 1923, the first post truck workshop was inaugurated in Hanover on a barracks site on Königsworther Platz . From 1935 there was a power post office in Hanover-Hainholz, Auf dem Dorn.
In 1917 a large parcel hall opened in Hanover-Hainholz, in which up to 30 freight wagons could be loaded and unloaded at the same time. It was used for parcel handling until 1945.
In the period from October 1911 to March 1912, the OPD moved to the new building at Zeppelinstrasse 24. 117 employees were required for administration. In addition, the Oberpostdirektion employed a legal advisor, a postal medical examiner and an architect. In 1967 423 of a total of 960 members of the management team worked in the building at Zeppelinstrasse 24.
During an air raid on Hanover during the Second World War , the stairwell and the attic in the west wing of the administrative building were damaged by high explosive bombs. Some offices had to be relocated to other post offices or to rented rooms. Individual presentations were housed in a villa on the corner of Hindenburgstrasse and Zeppelinstrasse.
After 1945, most post offices were also responsible for telephone switching and telegraph operations in their districts. It was not until 1951 that these services were transferred to newly formed telecommunications offices in Celle, Hameln, Hildesheim, Nienburg and Uelzen.
The Deutsche Bundespost used the building until January 1, 1995, when it was taken over by Deutsche Post AG.
On April 26, 2007, a luxurious Sunrise senior home was opened in the former building of the Post Office Directorate. Due to a lack of profitability, the house was closed in 2008 and has been a Kursana residence since October 1st, 2010 .
district
The sphere of activity included the entire area of the former kingdom, namely the principalities of Calenberg, Göttingen, Grubenhagen, Lüneburg, Osnabrück, Hildesheim with the city of Goslar and East Frisia with the Harlinger Land, the duchies of Bremen, Verden and Ahrenberg-Meppen, the Hanoverian part of the duchy Lauenburg, the Niedergrafschaft Lingen, the counties Hoya, Diepholz, Hohnstein and Bentheim and the Land Hadeln. In this 38,400 km² district with over 1.9 million inhabitants, there were 24 post offices, a railroad post office and 243 postal forwarders. While these were previously subordinate to the post offices, now - in accordance with the Prussian system - as post expeditions, like the offices, they had direct relationships with the Oberpostdirektion.
Since the direct business traffic with so many independent post offices was difficult to cope with, the district of the Oberpostdirektion was reduced.
On January 1, 1869, the OPD gave the areas of Aurich and Osnabrück to the Oberpostdirektion Oldenburg. There remained 221 post offices.
On July 1, 1871, parts of the area in the south of the district, which also included the cities of Goslar, Göttingen, Osterode, Einbeck and Bodenwerder, were branched off to the Braunschweig Post Office.
On April 1, 1873, the Oberpostdirektion Hamburg received the post offices Lüneburg, Harburg, Stade and other Hanoverian post offices on the left bank of the Elbe. To compensate for this, the areas of Schaumburg-Lippe, Grafschaft Schaumburg and the Braunschweig district court district of Thedinghausen, south of Achim, were added to the Hanover district.
As early as January 1, 1874, however, Thedinghausen in Brunswick and post offices and offices to the left of the Weser, especially in the counties of Diepholz and Hoya, as well as parts of the administrative district of Stade, which also included Verden, Bremervörde and Osterholz-Scharmbeck, became part of the Bremen Post Office.
When the Oberpostdirektion Minden was re-established on January 1, 1876, the post offices in the Grafschaft Schaumburg and Schaumburg-Lippe were assigned to it, but without the locations in the Steinhude, Hagenburg and Großenheidorn areas.
Around 1880 the Hanover district had an area of 14,900 km² with 792,000 inhabitants and 160 post offices and offices.
There have been no significant changes in the area for over 70 years. After the end of the Second World War, the district of Hanover lost the Neuhaus post office on the other side of the Elbe with its post offices and some offices of the Wittingen post office as a result of the establishment of occupation zones. On August 1, 1946, however, the Oberpostdirektion received the post offices in Schaumburg-Lippe and in the county of Schaumburg back. That belonged to the OPD-Minden until the dissolution in 1934 and then belonged again to the OPD Münster. Since then, its business area has encompassed the Hanover administrative district, excluding the Grafschaft Diepholz and Grafschaft Hoya districts, the Lüneburg administrative district excluding the urban district and the Lüneburg and Harburg districts, and the Hildesheim administrative district the urban district and the Hildesheim-Marienburg, Alfeld and Peine districts. This area has an area of 14,139 km² with almost 2.5 million inhabitants. It forms the core of the state of Lower Saxony.
While there were 60 post offices directly subordinate to the Oberpostdirektion in the district in 1955, their number decreased by 32 by 1962. The reason for this was the reorganization carried out in the federal territory during these years. Its aim was to concentrate the administrative service at a few easily accessible post offices and thereby simplify it. Hand in hand with these measures was a summary of operational tasks at these offices, e. B. the distribution of letters in incoming and outgoing, the newspaper and travel service and the maintenance of motor vehicles. In 1967, after 100 years, there were only 27 post offices and one post office. The independent post offices or, as they are now called in the official language, the "post offices with administrative service" are affiliated with a total of 200 smaller post offices, 438 post offices I, 884 post offices II and 20 post offices. They supply the flat country or districts away from the city centers.
In 1977 the OPD Braunschweig was taken over. The Braunschweiger didn't like this very much. In the debate about the new construction of the Braunschweig Palace in the Braunschweig Board Forum 2007 one could read: “Fortunately we have people and a foundation of Braunschweigischer Kulturbesitz who prevent a sell-off of Braunschweig interests and show Hanover the constitutional limits. Home-bound institutions of the old state of Braunschweig must be defended against centralization intentions of the state of Lower Saxony, which should be a matter of course for every council representative of this city. I only remember lost institutions such as the district government, the former Oberpostdirektion, the Braunschweigische Staatsbank and others. There was often a lack of determined people who would have resisted the withdrawal or would have advocated a sustainable replacement of the authorities. "
On January 1, 1995, the Hanover Postal Directorate ceased to exist. Deutsche Post AG took over their duties.
literature
- Heinz Drangmeister: The Post in Hanover . Published by Oberpostdirektion Hannover, on the occasion of its 100th anniversary on January 1st, 1967
- Alfred Koch: Chief Post Offices through the ages . In: Archive for Post and Telecommunications , No. 3/1964; Pp. 210, 212
Individual evidence
- ↑ Building description (PDF; 474 kB)
- ↑ Close Sunrise homes . in: Immobilien Zeitung No. 46 of November 20, 2008
- ^ Homepage Kursana, as seen on November 8, 2010
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '39.7 " N , 9 ° 45' 58" E