Provincial Administration of East Prussia
In the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic , the East Prussian provincial administration administered the Prussian province of East Prussia .
structure
The provincial administration was created in 1875 by law from the state poor association (see provincial association ). Its organs were the provincial parliament , the provincial committee and the governor as head of administration. Regional councils and regional building councils were assigned to him as department heads. The governor was the chairman of the respective administrative body.
The tasks of the provincial administration were:
- Social institutions: Sanatoriums and nursing homes for the mentally ill , institutions and schools for the deaf-mute and the blind , training of midwives with a regional women's clinic, care for cripples , welfare education in 7 provincial and 21 denominational education centers.
- Road construction and maintenance: Administration of the imperial roads and country roads of the first order, old provincial roads and maintenance of the country roads of the second order, district roads . The business was incumbent on 14 state building authorities.
- Cultural maintenance: Conservator for the preservation of monuments , museums , Prussia Museum , open-air museum near Hohenstein , administration of the Imperial Memorial in Hohenstein.
- Landscape management: land drainage , care of the dike associations and water cooperatives , gardeners -Lehranstalt in Tapiau , provincial goods .
- Economy: Ostpreußenwerk AG, Ostpreußische Landgesellschaft , Landesbank with Stadtschaft , Ostpreußische Kleinbahnen AG u. a.
- Finances: The East Prussian provincial administration received allocation from the financial equalization of the state of Prussia . The uncovered expenses were raised by the city and rural districts through a provincial levy.
Seat
In Königsberg the East Prussian provincial administration had its seat in the state house, which the state building councilor Krah built in 1878 in the park of the Dönhoffschen Grund. The building was destroyed in the British air raids on Königsberg in late August 1944.
Governors in East Prussia
- 1876–1878: Heinrich Rickert
- 1878–1884: Kurt von Saucken-Tarputschen
- 1884–1887: Alfred von Gramatzki
- 1888–1895: Klemens von Stockhausen
- 1896–1908: Rudolf von Brandt
- 1909–1916: Friedrich von Berg-Markienen
- 1916–1928: Manfred Graf von Brünneck-Bellschwitz
- 1928-1936: Paul Blunk
- 1936–1941: Helmuth von Wedelstädt
From 1941 to 1945 the First Provincial Councilor Reinhart Bezzenberger was de facto governor.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1