Head Office Kassel

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Post office Friedrich-Ebert-Straße, 1906 to 1943 seat of the head post office Kassel
The Königsplatz Kassel 1877 with the location of the old building of the Oberpostdirektion

The Oberpostdirektion Kassel (1934–1943: Reichspostdirektion Kassel ) was the Oberpostdirektion with its seat in Kassel from 1867 to 1943 .

prehistory

Around 1641, the Kassel citizen Bernhard Parwein set up a branch of the post office from Vechta to Kassel. Vechta was on the connecting route of the Imperial Post Office operated by the Thurn und Taxis from Frankfurt am Main to Leipzig . Parwein ran the Imperial Post Office until 1667. Landgrave Wilhelm VI. appointed the Weinschenk Reinhard Bödicker as the Hessian post administrator in Kassel and thus created a state-owned post office. Thurn und Taxis was not allowed to operate a station in the Landgraviate, but was allowed to cross the country.

From 1690 to 1709 Baron von Görtz, President of the Chamber, was the owner of the post office in Hessen-Kassel , as a fiefdom of the sovereign. From 1709 to 1715 the Landgrave ran the post office on his own account and leased it to the councilor Christian von Bar on July 1, 1715 for an annual lease of 1200 (from 1718 even 4800) guilders. This postmaster general was subordinate to the upper post office in Kassel as the highest postal authority in the Landgraviate. In 1715 the Chancellor and Secret Councilor Niklas Wilhelm Goadaeus is named as head of the senior inspection and management of the post, in 1724 a four-person management of the post is appointed. In 1731, Prince Wilhelm became head of the post, with Councilor von Calclhoff serving as co-director. In 1753 the Higher Appeal Court Councilor Leonhard Heinrich Ludwig Georg von Canngießer took over the management of the authority, which has since been called the Ober-Post-Direktion .

In order to avoid conflicts with the Thurn-und-Taxis-Post , an agreement was made on May 11, 1816 between the Landgraviate and Thurn und Taxis. The Landgraviate (whose regent had become elector in 1803 ) as the owner of the post office transferred the postal system as a hereditary fiefdom to Carl Alexander von Thurn und Taxis . In this contract, the Ober-Post-Directorate in Kassel was converted into the General Post Inspection as the highest state supervisory authority. Subordinate was the Thurn and Taxische General-Post-Direktion , which as far as Hesse-Kasselan affairs were concerned, traded as the Electoral-Hessian General-Post-Direktion .

The Prussian Oberpostdirektion

After the victory in the Austro -Prussian War , Prussian troops occupied the city of Kassel on June 19, 1866 and Prussia annexed Hesse-Kassel. In an assignment agreement between Thurn und Taxis and the Prussian state, the postal facilities were left to Thurn und Taxis. The treaty was ratified on January 28, 1867, and delivery took place on July 1, 1867.

The Ober-Post-Inspection Kassel was abolished and a Royal Prussian Oberpostdirektion Kassel based on the Prussian model was established. Below this Oberpostdirektion there were (as of 1875) eleven first class post offices (in Kassel, Hanau , Fulda , Marburg , Eschwege , Hersfeld , Gelnhausen , Arolsen , Bebra , Karlshafen and Pyrmont ).

The territories of the principality of Waldeck and Pyrmont were taken over by the Oberpostdirektion Minden , which was dissolved on June 1, 1869, but set up again on January 1, 1876.

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The Oberpostdirektion (which was the authority of Prussia, the North German Confederation and the German Empire ) was renamed the Reichspostdirektion on April 1, 1934.

With effect from February 26, 1943, the Kassel Post Office was abolished and assigned to the Frankfurt Post Office district.

people

Heads of the head post office in Kassel were:

  • Giants (1867–1878)
  • Oberpostdirektor von Vahl (1878-1881)
  • zur Linde (1881–1888)
  • Zielcke (1888-1891)
  • Frank (1891-1900)
  • Hoffmann (1900–1913)
  • Bergener (1913-1924)
  • Schenk (1924–1928)
  • Orth (1928–1930)
  • Plein (1930-1931)
  • Boas (1931-1937)
  • Lohmeyer (1937-1938)
  • Brick (1938-1940)
  • Meyer (1840-1841)
  • Glitsch (1841–1843)

building

The head office in Kassel was located in a building built in 1772 by court architect Simon Louis du Ry on Königsplatz .

From 1878 to 1881 August Kind worked out the floor plans in the Reichspostamt Berlin, and a new building for the Oberpostdirektion, the post office and the telegraph office was built on the same location as a facade design by Martin Gropius and Heino Schmieden .

As early as 1906, a new building for the Kassel Post Office was moved into on Hohenzollernstrasse (today: Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 24). In three years of construction, a magnificent building in the style of the Italian Renaissance was built there. The building was destroyed in World War II and rebuilt with a simplified facade. It is now used as a post office.

literature

  • One hundred years of the Oberpostdirektion Frankfurt am Main, 1867-1967 , ed. Oberpostdirektion Frankfurt am Main 1967, pp. 89–93

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