Wiesbaden Office

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Map of the Wiesbaden office, 1828

The Wiesbaden office (1849–1854: Wiesbaden district office , from 1854: Wiesbaden administrative office ), based in Wiesbaden, was one of 28 offices in the Duchy of Nassau , which was newly formed on July 1, 1816 as part of a reorganization of the Nassau administration. At the head of the Office of the Duke stood as a local governor a bailiff .

history

Nassau-Usingen

In Nassau-Usingen the office was last called Oberamt Wiesbaden or Herrschaft Wiesbaden.

Duchy of Nassau

The Wiesbaden office included the former Nassau-Usingenschen places Wiesbaden, Sonnenberg , Rambach , Nauroth , Auringen , Hessloch , Kloppenheim , Bierstadt , Erbenheim , Mosbach , Biebrich , Schierstein , Dotzheim , Clarenthal , Georgenborn and the former Mainz place Frauenstein . In 1864 the office had 38,155 inhabitants. This included 15 community districts, including a city, a town, 13 villages and 47 farms and mills to the office. In 1820, 3,353 families or 13,497 residents lived in the office. Of these, 11,546 were Protestant, 1,564 Catholic, 12 Mennonites and 374 Jews.

From 1831 the office also assumed the function of a Rhine customs court.

After the March Revolution in 1848, the administration was reorganized. By law of April 4, 1849, administration and jurisdiction were separated at a lower level in Nassau. The reform came into effect on July 1, 1849. Ten district offices were established for the administration , the offices continued as judicial offices (i.e. courts of first instance).

The Wiesbaden district office was formed from the previous Wiesbaden office and was responsible for administrative tasks. The jurisdiction in the lowest instance remained in the offices, which were now called justice offices. At the head of the district office stood a district administrator (that was the name of the district administrator ) with a district secretary as a representative. Theodor Ferger was appointed district administrator in Wiesbaden. In addition to the appointed district administrator, an elected district council was set up for the first time.

The question of the district office seat was controversial in the state parliament debate on the introduction of the district offices. The Wiesbaden delegate Ludwig Creutz requested that not Wiesbaden, but Biebrich should be the district seat. In the second reading in the meeting of the estates , a large majority voted for Wiesbaden and only 8 members for Biebrich.

However, the reform was reversed on October 1, 1854, the districts abolished and the previous offices restored.

In Wiesbaden there was a special feature that the separation of administration and justice was maintained in contrast to the other offices. The Wiesbaden Administrative Office existed until 1886 and the Wiesbaden Justice Office until 1866 .

Prussia

After the Prussian annexation of the duchy when the new province of Hessen-Nassau was divided into districts, the Wiesbaden administrative office became part of the Mainkreis on February 22, 1867 .

But even after the founding of the district, the previous office structure will be retained. The Royal Ordinance of February 22, 1867 regulated: "The administrative districts as narrower administrative districts exist in their previous limits" The former offices form the three districts of the district. According to § 13 of the district constitution, the districts sent the former offices six representatives to the new district council . The bailiff was in charge of the local police and the district administrator.

With the administrative reform of 1885/1886 the offices were finally dissolved.

Bailiffs

Wiesbaden Office

  • 1816–1819: Emil Ludwig Reinhard Bergmann
  • 1819–1821: Peter Grüsing
  • 1821–1828: Georg Ludwig Forst
  • 1828–1832: Johann Heinrich Roth
  • 1832–1837: Heinrich von Graß
  • 1837–1841: Christian Ludwig Wen (c) kenbach
  • 1841–1849: Wilhelm Winter

Administrative Office Wiesbaden (until 1886)

  • 1854–1864: Theodor Ferger
  • 1864–1866: Carl Busch
  • 1866–1870: Friedrich Raht
  • 1870–1886: "For the time being co-administered" by the district administrator of the Wiesbaden district

Justice Office Wiesbaden (until 1866)

  • 1854–1864: Ludwig Dübell
  • 1864–1866: Wilhelm Friedrich Christian Jeckeln

literature

  • Thomas Klein: Volume 11: Hessen-Nassau, the series: Walther Hubatsch: Outline of German Administrative History 1815–1945, 1979, ISBN 3-87969-126-6 , pp. 128–129, 142–144, 187–188
  • Norbert Zabel: Spatial authority organization in the Duchy of Nassau, Diss., 1980, ISBN 3-922244-39-4 , p. 140

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ordinance sheet of the Duchy of Nassau dated June 7, 1816 ( online )
  2. ↑ Annals of the Association for Nassau Antiquity and Historical Research : Volume 10, 1870, p. 335 ( online )
  3. ↑ Law of April 4, 1849 (VBl p. 87); Law, the execution of the law on the separation of the administration of justice from the administration in the lower instance on May 31, 1849, (VBl p. 409)
  4. ↑ Law of July 24, 1854 (Bvl. P. 160)
  5. ↑ VO of June 26, 1867, GS p. 1094
  6. ↑ Royal Decree of February 22, 1867 Supplement to the intelligence paper for Nassau of March 11, 1867, § 8 and 9
  7. ↑ GS 1885, p. 229