Private Post "Hansa"
Privat-Post "Hansa" was a private postal company in the German Empire that existed from September 1, 1894 until the establishment of the postal monopoly on March 31, 1900. From 1886 to 1900 there were more than 250 private post offices in around 170 cities and towns in the German Empire. This was forcibly terminated on March 31, 1900. The establishment of the postal monopoly cost the German Reich 8.2 million gold marks . This also included the private post "Hansa".
history
The legal approval of the private postal service was a consequence of the German war . The new Prussian territories, the Kingdom of Hanover , the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, the Duchy of Nassau , the Electorate of Hesse-Kassel, the Free City of Frankfurt and finally the post-office sovereignty of the Princes of Thurn and Taxis , without their own state, but with numerous branches such as z. B. the Oberpostamt in Frankfurt, were a reality. The other states in the North German Confederation were urged to renounce postal sovereignty.
During the deliberations on this postal law, it was also called for the state postal monopoly to be dropped. The postal law of the North German Confederation of November 2, 1867 finally saw for comparison:
- § 1
- The promotion
- 1) all sealed, sewn up or otherwise closed letters,
- 2) all newspapers with political content that appear more than once a week,
against payment from places with a post office to other places with a post office in Germany or abroad in any other way than by post is prohibited.
Any private transport within the local boundaries was therefore permitted without restriction; to the outside only sealed letters were subject to the state monopoly. These provisions were adopted unchanged in the Reich Post Law of October 28, 1871. The Reichspost did not like private competition and called for the postal monopoly within the Reich's borders.
After deliberations in the Reichstag, the Reichspost finally succeeded with the law of December 20, 1899, prohibiting all private mail delivery with effect from April 1, 1900. However, this law also regulated the compensation to be paid: for the entrepreneurs according to actual damage and lost profit, for the messengers according to the length of their employment and amount of income, unless they were accepted into the Reichspostdienst. Couriers who had been working for the private post office since 1886 received a severance payment of more than three annual salaries.
The three German postal administrations still in existence at the time had to make the following total payments to compensation for entrepreneurs and messengers who were not accepted:
- German Reichspost : 7,450,000 marks,
- Kgl. Bavarian Post : 440,000 marks,
- Kgl. Württemberg Post : 320,000 marks
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- together approx. 8,200,000 marks
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literature
- Horst-Günter Benkmann : Königsberg (Pr.) And his post. A contribution to the history of the post in Königsberg (Pr.) From the time of the Order to 1945 (= Prussia series of publications. Work 6 = series of publications by the East and West Prussia Foundation in Bavaria, "Professor Doctor Ernst Ferdinand Müller" eV, Vol. 3). Schild-Verlag, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-88014-075-8 .