Administrative region of Stade
The district of Stade was until 1978 one of eight Lower Saxony government and administrative districts . It was located in the Elbe-Weser triangle in the area of the old duchies of Bremen and Verden .
history
The history of the administrative district of Stade goes back to the year 1885, when the area of the former Kingdom of Hanover (since 1866 the Prussian province of Hanover ) was divided into administrative districts on the basis of the previous Landdrosteien . At that time, the administrative district of Stade emerged from the co-area Landdrostei Stade . This was founded in the Landdrostei order in the new Kingdom of Hanover in 1823 from the previous provincial government of Stade after Hanover had bought the area from Denmark in 1715.
After the occupation and annexation of Hanover by the Kingdom of Prussia as a result of the German War of 1866 , districts were also created in the new province, following the example of the administrative districts that had already been established in other Prussian provinces in 1815/16. For this purpose, on April 1, 1885, the existing Landdrosteien were reorganized and renamed administrative districts. In these administrative districts, somewhat larger administrative units, the districts , were established from the former offices . The population of Landdrostei Stade was around 300,000 at that time.
When it was founded, the administrative district of Stade comprised the 14 districts of Achim , Blumenthal , Bremervörde , Geestemünde , Hadeln (seat in Otterndorf ), Jork , Kehdingen (seat in Freiburg / Elbe ), Lehe , Neuhaus , Osterholz (seat in Osterholz-Scharmbeck ), Rotenburg in Hanover , Stade , Verden (Aller) and Zeven . In 1924, the unification of the cities of Lehe and Geestemünde, which had been independent since 1913, founded the independent city of Wesermünde , which until 1947 belonged to the Stade administrative district. During the district reform of 1932, the number of districts was reduced to seven. Blumenthal was added to the Osterholz district, Achim joined Verden, Zeven joined Bremervörde, Neuhaus and Hadeln became the Land Hadeln district , Altes Land and Kehdingen went to Stade and the Geestemünde and Lehe districts were merged into the Wesermünde district.
In 1937, as part of the Greater Hamburg Act, the Ritzebüttel office was included as an independent city of Cuxhaven in the Stade administrative district and thus in the Prussian province of Hanover. In 1939 the city of Bremerhaven , which had previously belonged to Bremen, was incorporated into Wesermünde. Parts of the districts of Osterholz and Verden went to the city of Bremen and thus left the administrative district.
In 1947 the OMGUS and the British military government restored the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen , consisting of the cities of Bremen and Wesermünde. Shortly thereafter, Wesermünde was (again) renamed Bremerhaven . It left the administrative district of Stade and became - like the entire state of Bremen - at the same time the exclave of the US zone in the British zone .
During the district reform , which was carried out in Lower Saxony from 1973 to 1977, the districts were merged into larger administrative units and the independent city of Cuxhaven was integrated into the new district of Cuxhaven . The administrative district then consisted only of the five districts of Cuxhaven, Osterholz, Rotenburg (Wümme), Stade and Verden . The population of the district at that time was just under 700,000. In 1978 the area of the administrative district of Stade was finally assigned to the administrative district of Lüneburg, which in turn existed until 2004.
Aftermath in the present day
Many regional institutions such as the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Stade Regional Association, the Chamber of Agriculture or the Sprengel Stade of the Evangelical-Lutheran State Church of Hanover still encompass the area that is derived from the former Landdrostei Stade and the subsequent administrative district.
Population development
district | Inhabitants 1890 |
Population 1900 |
Inhabitants 1910 |
Inhabitants 1925 |
Inhabitants 1933 |
Inhabitants 1939 |
1969 residents |
Residents 1980 |
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Blumenthal | 22,547 | 30,353 | 39,535 | 43.104 | ||||
Osterholz | 28,232 | 29.205 | 31,284 | 32,545 | 80.216 | 41,529 | 80,600 | 93,700 |
Achim | 20,981 | 24.051 | 28,555 | 33,717 | ||||
Verden | 25,125 | 26,392 | 27,638 | 28,177 | 63,441 | 51,643 | 88,900 | 110,300 |
Zeven | 14,060 | 15,318 | 15,825 | 20,569 | 44,021 | |||
Bremervörde | 17,040 | 18,159 | 19,858 | 22.305 | 45,455 | 72,700 | ||
Rotenburg (Hanover) | 19,642 | 21,128 | 25,425 | 29,171 | 30,947 | 33,821 | 57,100 | |
Rotenburg (Wümme) | 138,400 | |||||||
Geestemünde | 35,398 | 41,906 | 51.002 | 23,355 | ||||
Lehe | 32,165 | 43,040 | 58,685 | 23,736 | ||||
Wesermünde | 47,695 | 49,632 | 78,900 | |||||
City of Wesermünde | 72,065 | 77,461 | 86,043 | |||||
Neuhaus (Oste) | 29,111 | 29,684 | 29,383 | 27,020 | ||||
Hadeln | 16,652 | 15,959 | 16,662 | 16,921 | ||||
Land Hadeln | 42,281 | 43,827 | 64,200 | |||||
City of Cuxhaven | 22.094 | 45,200 | ||||||
Cuxhaven | 191,700 | |||||||
Kehdingen | 21,014 | 19,993 | 19,741 | 19,146 | ||||
Jork | 20,899 | 21,028 | 21,050 | 21,064 | ||||
Stade | 35,359 | 38,804 | 42,712 | 44,652 | 88,253 | 88,548 | 139,400 | 163,400 |
RB Stade | 338.225 | 375.020 | 427.355 | 457,547 | 474.315 | 462,592 | 627,000 | 697,500 |
District President
- 1885–1888 Ludwig Eberhardt Franzius
- 1888–1895 Gustav von Heyer
- 1895-1899 Edgar Himly
- 1899–1909 Rudolf von Reiswitz and Kaderzin
- 1909–1911 Kurd von Berg-Schönfeld
- 1911–1922 Hans Grashoff
- 1922–1933 Hermann Rose (1879–1943), member of the Prussian state parliament (1921–1932) for the DVP , resigned as district president under pressure from Gauleiter Otto Telschow
- 1933–1936 Albert Leister (1890–1968), MdR (1930–1933) for the NSDAP
- 1936–1944 Arthur Schmidt-Kügler
- 1944–1945 Hermann Fiebing (1901–1960)
- 1945 Oskar Brenken provisionally
- November 1945–1948 Johann Thies (1898–1969), Member of the Bundestag (1956–1957) for the CDU
- 1948–1950 Werner Pollack (1886–1979)
- 1950 Friedrich Knost (1899–1982), acting
- 1950–1954 Walter Harm (1897–1964), Member of the Bundestag (1957–1964) for the SPD
- 1954–1958 Otto Wendt , MdL Lower Saxony (1959) for the GB / BHE
- 1958–1959 Curt Miehe (1903–1965), acting, Head of the Lower Saxony State Chancellery (1959–1964) and Minister for Federal Affairs, Expellees and Refugees of the Lower Saxony State Government (1964–1965)
- 1959–1973 Helmut-Ernst Miericke (1914–1973)
- 1973–1977 Joachim Passow (1925–1983), deputizing as Vice President of the Government
Individual evidence
- ^ Map of the Landdrostei Stade
- ↑ Landdrostei Stade ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Prussian province Hanover. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).