Salzgitter Law

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The Regulation on field adjustments in the space of Hermann Goering Works Salzgitter (also Salzgitter-law called) of 25 June 1941, a decree of the Ministry of the Interior to the territorial reorganization of the boundaries of the Free States of Brunswick and Prussia in the wake of the Nazi regime operated Harmonization , land consolidation and economic development . The aim was, in addition to the territorial consolidation of Central Germany, to create the conditions for the expansion of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring and the creation of the Watenstedt – Salzgitter district. The ordinance concerned the Prussian provinces of Hanover and Saxony as well as the state of Braunschweig . It was based on Article 5 of the Law on the Rebuilding of the Reich of January 30, 1934. It was drawn up by the Reich Minister of the Interior, Wilhelm Frick , and came into force on August 1, 1941. On April 1, 1942, the Reich governor of Anhalt and Braunschweig , Rudolf Jordan , ordered the establishment of the city of Watenstedt – Salzgitter .

Territorial changes in the Braunschweig area from 1932 to 1945
Greater German Reich (Länder and Gaue) 1944

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§ 1 Territories that change from the state of Prussia to the state of Braunschweig

From the province of Hanover

From the province of Saxony

§ 2 areas that change from the state of Braunschweig to the state of Prussia

In the province of Hanover

In the province of Saxony

§ 3 to 8

Deal with the rights of the state of Braunschweig to the bitumen deposit in the district of Holzminden and details of the implementation of the area swap.

Creation of the Watenstedt – Salzgitter district

In the Harz foreland, with an estimated two billion tons of iron ore, the most important inner German ore deposits, the Reichswerke Hermann Göring was to be built. They were supposed to mine 6 million tons of ore annually and produce 4 million tons of steel with 32 blast furnaces (1/4 of all German production, 2% of world production at that time). So that the plant could develop economically well, the “Salzgitter Law” created a uniform administrative structure for the entire area in advance. In addition, an area of ​​209 km², in which there were only several small towns, was to be expanded into a large city with 250,000 inhabitants. The 300-inhabitant village of Lebenstedt was supposed to form the city center as the "Hermann Göring City". Adolf Hitler had rejected the name for the entire city, so that the Brunswick state government could enforce that the leading part of the double name became the name of the Brunswick community of Watenstedt .

After the entry into force of the room ordering "Salzgitter Act" on August 1, 1941 decreed on April 1, 1942, the Reich governor of Anhalt and Brunswick , Rudolf Jordan , the establishment of the planned city Watenstedt-Salzgitter from seven municipalities of the country Braunschweig -down district of Goslar and 21 Municipalities of the Brunswick district of Wolfenbüttel . 26 days later, on April 27, 1942, it was raised to the status of an independent city .

consequences

Four smaller ordinances (1936, 1938, 1939 and 1942) and the largest, the “Salzgitter Law”, modified the boundaries of the Free State of Braunschweig, in some cases heavily. The territorial fragmentation of Braunschweig was minimized. The district of Gandersheim and the Bad Harzburg exclave were connected to the core area and now formed a more compact territory. While the number of larger exclaves around the Braunschweig core territory was seven before 1941, the law reduced them to three ( Thedinghausen , Blankenburg and Calvörde ). The latter two were in the Soviet occupation zone after 1945 . The remainder of the district of Blankenburg that remained in the British occupation zone existed until 1972, the seat of the district administration was Braunlage .

The Prussian province of Hanover took a similar development because it was spatially interwoven with Braunschweig . It was gradually freed from its historically grown, but administratively disadvantageous ex- and enclaves. On the one hand, territorial reforms in the Free State of Prussia swapped areas with the Province of Saxony and the Province of Hesse-Nassau , and on the other hand, the spatial fragmentation was most recently almost eliminated by the Salzgitter Act.

In a larger context, the Salzgitter Act can therefore also be viewed as part of the land consolidation of today's state of Lower Saxony .

Continuing effect

The regulations were not reversed by the Allies, but expanded through further agreements such as the zone protocol and were no longer revised even after reunification. The development thus forms the basis of the current border between the state of Lower Saxony and the state of Saxony-Anhalt .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RGBl. 1941 I p. 357.
  2. ↑ RGBl. 1934 I p. 75.
  3. ↑ https://www.salzgitter.de/kultur/stadtgeschichte/chronik.php Chronik
  4. ↑ https://www.salzgitter.de/kultur/stadtgeschichte/chronik.php www.salzgitter.de Chronicle
  5. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20180130091300/http://digisrv-1.biblio.etc.tu-bs.de/dfg-files/00042534/DWL/00000273.pdf p. 251.
  6. ↑ RGBl. 1936 II. P. 146.
  7. ↑ RGBl. 1938 II. P. 847.
  8. ↑ RGBl. 1939 II. P. 997.
  9. ↑ RGBl. 1942 II. P. 287.

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