Magdeburg administrative district
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State State / Country |
Saxony-Anhalt Prussia |
| Administrative headquarters | Magdeburg |
| surface | 11,735.09 km² |
| Residents | 1,172,500 (December 31, 2003) |
| Population density | 100 inhabitants / km² |
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The administrative district of Magdeburg existed from 1816 to 1944, from 1945 to 1947 and from 1990 to 2003 in the Prussian province of Saxony , in the Soviet occupation zone and in the state of Saxony-Anhalt .
Administrative history
The Prussian province of Saxony, formed in 1815, was divided into the administrative districts of Erfurt , Magdeburg and Merseburg in 1816 . The administrative district of Magdeburg formed the province of Magdeburg from 1944 until the end of the war in 1945 , which on July 23, 1945 became the administrative district of Magdeburg of the state of Saxony-Anhalt .
During the reform of the state administration, Saxony-Anhalt's districts were dissolved on June 30, 1947. As part of the GDR - administrative reform of 1952 , the district area with partly altered borders part of the new was district Magdeburg .
In the course of the re-establishment of the states in the dissolving GDR in 1990, the Magdeburg district was re-formed into the Magdeburg administrative district. Due to the district reform of 1994 in Saxony-Anhalt , the administrative district was expanded to include the Aschersleben area. On January 1, 2004, the administrative district was dissolved. The tasks of the regional council were taken over by the state administration office of Saxony-Anhalt , based in Halle (Saale) .
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1816 | 460.405 | |
| 1843 | 619.781 | |
| 1871 | 854.591 | |
| 1900 | 1,176,372 | |
| 1910 | 1,248,990 | |
| 1925 | 1,294,514 | |
| 1933 | 1,303,848 | |
| 1939 | 1,388,245 | |
| 1993 | 1,213,700 | |
| 1995 | 1,261,300 | |
| 2000 | 1,208,100 | |
| 2003 | 1,172,500 |
Administrative division
1816-1944
- City districts
- Aschersleben (since 1901)
- Castle b. M. (since 1924)
- Halberstadt (until 1825 and since 1891)
- Magdeburg
- Quedlinburg (since 1911)
- Stendal (since 1909)
- Counties
- Aschersleben (until 1901)
- Calbe
- Guards
- Halberstadt (from 1825 to 1932)
- Haldensleben
- Jerichow I
- Jerichow II
- Oschersleben
- Osterburg
- Osterwieck (until 1825)
- Quedlinburg (since 1901)
- Salzwedel
- Stendal
- Wanzleben
- Wernigerode (since 1825)
- Wolmirstedt
1945-1947
On July 23, 1945, Saxony-Anhalt established three district administrations, one named Dessau for the former Free State of Anhalt, one in Magdeburg for the former Prussian province of the same name and one in Merseburg for the former Prussian province of Halle-Merseburg . On January 10, 1946, some districts were reclassified from the Magdeburg administrative district to those of Dessau .
- City districts
- Aschersleben (January 10, 1946 to Dessau district)
- Castle near Magdeburg (again part of the district in 1950)
- Halberstadt (again part of the district in 1950)
- Magdeburg
- Quedlinburg (January 10, 1946 to Dessau District)
- Salzwedel (from February 1, 1946; back in 1950)
- Schönebeck (from February 1, 1946; 1950 again member of the district)
- Stendal (back in 1950)
- Counties
- Blankenburg (eastern district area separated from the Free State of Braunschweig in July 1945)
- Calbe (January 10, 1946 to Dessau District)
- Gardelegen (with the Brunswick exclave Calvörde from the Helmstedt district)
- Haldensleben
- Jerichow I (January 10, 1946, southern district area in the Dessau district)
- Jerichow II
- Oschersleben (January 10, 1946 Anhalt enclave Großalsleben from the Ballenstedt district in the Dessau district)
- Osterburg
- Quedlinburg-Land (January 10, 1946 to Dessau district)
- Salzwedel Land
- Stendal country
- Wanzleben
- Wolmirstedt
1990-1994
- District-free city
- Counties
- Castle
- Guards
- Genthin
- Halberstadt
- Haldensleben
- Havelberg
- Blocks
- Oschersleben
- Osterburg
- Quedlinburg
- Salzwedel
- Schönebeck
- Staßfurt
- Stendal
- Wanzleben
- Wernigerode
- Wolmirstedt
1994-2003
District-free city
Counties
- Aschersleben-Staßfurt
- Bördekreis
- Halberstadt
- Jerichower Land
- Circle of ears
- Quedlinburg
- Altmarkkreis Salzwedel
- Schönebeck
- Stendal
- Wernigerode
District President
Province of Saxony
- 1816–1818 Office of the District President administered in personal union by the Upper President of the Province of Saxony
- 1818–1821 Friedrich von der Schulenburg
- 1821–1881 Office of the District President administered in personal union by the Upper President of the Province of Saxony
- 1881–1888 Wilhelm von Wedel-Piesdorf
- 1889–1897 Traugott von Baudissin
- 1897–1903 Oskar von Arnstedt
- 1903–1908 Constanz von Baltz
- 1908–1909 Georg von Borries junior
- 1910–1919 Karl Miesitschek von Wischkau
- 1920–1930 Alexander Pohlmann
- 1930–1932 Paul Weber
- 1934–1944 Hans-Georg von Jagow
State of Saxony-Anhalt (SBZ / GDR) :
- 1946–1947 Werner Bruschke
State of Saxony-Anhalt :
- 1991–1998 Wolfgang Böhm (FDP)
- 1998–2002 Gerhard Miesterfeldt (SPD) [3]
- 2003 Thomas Leimbach (CDU)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany
- ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative district of Magdeburg, p. 326 ( digitized version [accessed on May 5, 2016]).
- ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, Neustadt-Magdeburg, p. 79 ( digitized version [accessed June 6, 2016]).
- ↑ Royal Statistical Office of Prussia (ed.): The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Saxony. Publishing house d. Royal Extra Bureaus, Berlin 1873 ( digitized version [accessed on May 5, 2016]).
- ↑ a b gemeindeververzeichnis.de
- ↑ a b c Statistical yearbook for the German Empire
- ↑ [1]
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