Administrative region of Stade

Administrative region of Stade (brown) in Lower Saxony in 1978 with five districts belonging to it

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

Administrative region of Stade (brown) of the Prussian province of Hanover (yellow) 1905 with 14 affiliated districts

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
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

1. ^ Map of the Landdrostei Stade
2. ↑ Landdrostei Stade ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ 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).