Hanover district

Country :	Lower Saxony
Administrative headquarters :	Hanover
Inventory period	1885-2004
Area :	9046.82 km²
Residents :	2,167,343 (September 30, 2004)
Population density :	239.81 inhabitants / km²
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The administrative district of Hanover was an administrative district of the state of Lower Saxony . From 1946 to 2004 it was one of eight regional administrative units (six government and two administrative districts) into which Lower Saxony was divided.

history

The history of the administrative district of Hanover goes back to the year 1885, when the former Kingdom of Hanover , which became Prussian in 1866 , was divided into administrative districts as the Prussian Province of Hanover . The model was the government districts established in other Prussian provinces in 1815/16. The administrative district of Hanover was formed from the Landdrostei Hanover , which had existed since 1823 .

Former service building in Hanover on Waterlooplatz , today Hanover authorities

Sculpture centers with extensions and cores on Ansgar Nierhoff's office building , 1996

On February 1, 1978, the district of Hanover was expanded as part of a district reform (with the reduction to four administrative districts) to include the districts of Hildesheim and Holzminden from the repealed Hildesheim district . The authority of the administrative district of Hanover was the regional central authority of the district government of Hanover . It was repealed as part of a further reform called administrative modernization. On December 31, 2004, the Hanover administrative district - like the other three administrative districts of Lower Saxony - was dissolved. Since then, the former service building has served as an authority building, where today (2012) a. a. the Lower Saxony State Criminal Police Office , the Lower Saxony State School Authority and other state authorities have their headquarters. In place of the government agency established in 2005, regional representatives for the area of ​​the former administrative district of Hanover were appointed in 2014 within the boundaries from 1978 to 2004. This institution is based in Hildesheim. The area of ​​responsibility is now called Leine-Weser .

Administrative division

Administrative division 1905

1. Diepholz district
2. Hamelin district
3. District of Hanover
   with the city of Hanover
4. Hoya County
5. District of Linden
   with the city of Linden
6. Neustadt district
7. Nienburg district
8. Circle jump
9. Stolzenau district
10. Sulingen district
11. Syke district

Administrative division until 1974

Before the reorganization of the administrative districts (February 1, 1978) and before the district reform (March 1, 1974 and August 1, 1977), the Hanover administrative district comprised the

• independent cities of Hameln and
• Hanover and the districts
• Grafschaft Diepholz (seat: Diepholz ),
• County Hoya (seat: Syke ),
• Grafschaft Schaumburg (seat: Rinteln ),
• Hameln-Pyrmont (seat: Hameln ),
• Hanover ,
• Neustadt am Rübenberge ,
• Nienburg / Weser ,
• Schaumburg-Lippe (seat: Stadthagen ) and
• Springe district .

During the district reform , which was carried out in Lower Saxony from 1972 to 1977, the districts were merged into larger administrative units on March 1, 1974 and August 1, 1977, and the Hameln district was integrated into the Hameln-Pyrmont district on January 1, 1973 .

Administrative division 2001

The formerly independent city of Hanover was united with the district of Hanover to form the Hanover region on November 1, 2001 , so that the Hanover administrative district consisted of the following seven administrative districts until its dissolution in 2004:

• Region Hannover (local association of a special kind)
• District of Diepholz
• Hameln-Pyrmont district
• Hildesheim district
• Holzminden district
• District of Nienburg / Weser
• Schaumburg district

Personalities

District President

• 1885–1889: Adolf Lucas von Cranach (1823–1896)
• 1889–1895: Wilhelm von Bismarck (1852–1901)
• 1895–1903: Hans von Brandenstein (1849–1938)
• 1904–1911: Ernst von Philipsborn (1853–1915)
• 1911–1917: Kurd von Berg-Schönfeld (1856–1923)
• 1917–1933: Friedrich von Velsen (1871–1953)
• 1933–1936: Ulrich Stapenhorst (1878–1965)
• 1936–1942: Rudolf Diels (1900–1957)
• 1942–1943: Kurt Binding (acting) (1904–1971)
• 000001943: Paul Kanstein (1899–1981)
• 000001945: Hinrich Wilhelm Kopf (1893–1961)
• 1945–1946: Wilhelm Ellinghaus (1888–1961)
• 1946–1959: Theanolte Bähnisch (1899–1973)
• 1959–1966: Friedrich Seitz (1908–1996)
• 1966–1972: Hans-Adolf de Terra (1921–1994)
• 1973–1977: Bernhard Baier (1912–2003)
• 1977–1982: Wolfgang Senger (1925–2009)
• 1982–1989: Eckart Lottermoser (1928–1998)
• 1989–1990: Gottfried Jakob (1935–2011)
• 1990–1991: Jan-Henrik Horn (1944–2002)
• 1991–1994: Hans-Albert Lennartz (* 1949)
• 1994–1998: Werner Greifelt († 2006)
• 1998–2003: Gertraude Kruse (* 1939)

Other personalities

• 1973–1990: Legal scholar Johann-Albrecht Haupt

literature

• Matthias Blazek: From Landdrostey to District Government - The history of the Hanover District Government as reflected in the administrative reforms . 2., completely redesigned. u. exp. Ed., Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2014, ISBN 978-3-89821-357-8 .

Web links

Commons : Region Hannover  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• HGIS Germany 2006–2007: "Region Hannover (1866–1914)" (pdf, 24 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ information on the administrative modernization in Lower Saxony in Portal Lower Saxony .
2. ↑ § 1 of Article 1 (Law on the Dissolution of District Governments) of the Law on the Modernization of Administration in Lower Saxony ( Memento of May 22, 2005 in the Internet Archive ).
3. ^ The offices for regional development on the Internet . Retrieved August 3, 2019.
4. ↑ Cf. Faber, Heiko: “100 Years of the Hanover District Government”, in: The Public Administration, Issue 23/1985, pp. 989–997.
5. ↑ Johann-Albrecht Haupt: User: Johann-Albrecht Haupt , self-disclosure on his own user page in the German-language Wikipedia in the version of June 11, 2020, 11:49 a.m.