Weser-Ems administrative district

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Basic data
Country : Lower Saxony
Administrative headquarters : Oldenburg (Oldenburg)
Area : 14,965.38 km²
Residents : 2,473,998 (Sep 30, 2004)
Population density : 165 inhabitants / km²
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Weser-Ems administrative district in Lower Saxony

The Weser-Ems was one of four administrative districts of the country Lower Saxony .

He was born on February 1, 1978 by combining the 1946 administrative regions formed within the state of Lower Saxony Aurich and Osnabrück with the also in 1946 from the former Free State of Oldenburg formed administrative district Oldenburg newly formed and had its administrative headquarters in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) . The authority of the district was the district government Weser-Ems, its head of authority a district president . The district government had its headquarters in the Oldenburg ministerial building ; their branch offices in Osnabrück and Aurich were in the former office buildings of the local government presidents.

On January 1, 2005, all administrative districts of Lower Saxony were dissolved. By decision of the state government, there was a government agency in Oldenburg from 2005, which was replaced in 2014 by regional representatives for the area of ​​the former administrative district.

Administrative structure :

Counties one district cities

The current districts were formed by the regional reform that was carried out in Lower Saxony from 1972 to 1977. Most of the districts existed before the district reform. At that time, however, they sometimes had a different cut.

On January 1st, 1980 the district of Wittmund was re-established. The districts of Ammerland and Friesland were traced back to the area defined on July 31, 1977.

On July 1, 1993, the district of Oldenburg (Oldenburg) lost its addition and was henceforth called the district of Oldenburg.

The Weser-Ems district government was headed by the following regional presidents:

After the replacement of Government President Theilen in March 2003, the office was not filled again; Until it was dissolved on December 31, 2004, the Weser-Ems district government was headed by Vice President Dieter Boll .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ § 1 of Article 1 (Law on the Dissolution of District Governments) of the Law on the Modernization of Administration in Lower Saxony (PDF; 99 kB)