Basic territorial key

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The Basic Territorial Key (TGS) was an instrument of electronic computing technology in the GDR "for the uniform recording, documentation and updating of territorial data on residential areas, streets and houses / properties". The TGS was introduced with the order on the application of the territorial basic key on January 1, 1969.

Introduction of the territorial basic key

After the Western European countries began to set up computerized population registers in the 1950s and some countries introduced numeric or alphanumeric identification features (personal identification numbers) for their citizens at the end of the 1960s, the GDR joined this development. With unpublished resolutions of the Council of Ministers, the establishment of a central personal database (PDB) of the GDR in Berlin-Biesdorf began, whose abbreviated personal data records were also received by the local state organs for further use for their projects, as well as with the creation of resident data memories. The TGS introduced in 1969 and the Personal Identification Number (PKZ) introduced on January 1, 1970 were components of the central personal database. The database as well as its expansion and coordination was the subject of a number of other Council of Ministers resolutions in the following years.

The local councils had to ensure that the TGS, which was introduced in 1969, was documented for all city districts, cities, city districts and municipalities by January 1, 1978 and was then updated at least once a year.

construction

The structure of the TGS was described for the first time in the annex to the order on the application of the territorial basic key of December 5, 1968. According to Section 2 (2) of this order, the TGS “followed the numbering of the districts, districts and municipalities in the directory of the municipalities and districts of the GDR ”. The ordinance on the territorial basic key , which took the place of the order of 1968 in 1976, stipulated an addition to the TGS by a single- digit check digit , including the municipality number , in Section 2 (1) . The municipality number, TGS and check digit are therefore to be seen as one unit. This is why this combination of digits is colloquially referred to as the territorial basic key, although in the narrower sense the municipality number does not belong to the TGS.

The community number consisted of a total of 6 digits, which were composed as follows:

  • The first two digits denoted the district (see table below).
  • The third and fourth digits identified the district to which the municipality belonged or the urban district . The numbers 0X to 30 stood for the rural districts and the numbers 31 to 35 for urban districts.
  • Finally, the last two digits differentiated the communities within a district. There were two zeros at this point in the city districts.
  • The city of East Berlin was an exception , it was treated like a district (district number 15). The third and fourth digits identified one of 9 East Berlin districts, whereby only the numbers 01, 04, 05, 09, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 were occupied.

The actual TGS consisted of 10 digits since 1976:

  • Three digits stood for the residential area.
  • The following two digits designate the street or the street section in the residential district.
  • This was followed by three digits for the house / property number and one digit for the alphabetical subdivision of the house / property number (e.g. 004 2 stood for house number 4 b).
  • The last digit was a modulo -9 check digit over the entire 15 digits of the municipality number and TGS.

According to territorial requirements, the TGS could be supplemented after the check digit. One such addition was the “encryption of apartments and commercial spaces (apartment numbers)” (see table below).

The municipality number essentially corresponded to the official municipality key (AGS) used today . When the AGS was introduced in the eastern federal states, it was formed as identically as possible to the old municipality numbers; the analogy to the block page numbers of the small-scale structure are formed by the residential districts of the TGS.

District numbers for the former districts of the GDR and Berlin

Structure of the apartment numbers

  • 01 = 1st floor (ground floor)
  • 02 = 2nd floor
  • 03 = 3rd floor
...
  • 76 = 1st basement floor
  • 77 = 2nd basement floor
  • 78 = 3rd basement floor
  • 79 = 1st attic floor
  • 80 = 2nd attic floor

The two-digit floor number was followed by a two-digit number for the apartment on the floor. Apartments or commercial spaces were numbered consecutively clockwise with respect to their main entrance door starting with 01.

Examples

13 08 39 009 04 021 0 4 = Leipzig district, Leipzig district, Panitzsch community, residential district 9, street 4, house no. 21
13 31 00 021 10 036 3 6 = Leipzig district, Leipzig city district, residential district 21, street 10, house no. 36 c
15 04 00 003 08 004 2 0 = Berlin, Prenzlauer Berg district, residential district 3, street 8, house no. 4 b
15 19 09 002 03 003 0 6 = Berlin, district Pankow, district Wilhelmsruh, residential district 2, street 3, house no. 3

literature

  • Ingrid Oertel: The resident data memories of the local government bodies (EDS) and their use in the health and social services of the GDR. In: Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung , 32, 2007 issue 1, pp. 271–304, urn : nbn: de: 0168-ssoar-62562 .
  • Administrative card. Scale 1: 200,000. 14 sheets 96 × 65 cm (Rostock district; Schwerin district; Neubrandenburg district; Potsdam district; Berlin and Frankfurt district; Cottbus district; Magdeburg district; Halle district; Erfurt district; Gera district; Suhl district; Dresden district; Leipzig district; Karl district -Marx-Stadt). Tourist-Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig 1981–1984.
  • Administrative map of the German Democratic Republic. Scale 1: 600,000. Tourist-Verlag, Berlin / Leipzig 1980.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Order on the Basic Territorial Key of December 6, 1976, Journal of Laws of I No. 49, p. 554
  2. ↑ a b c Order on the application of the territorial basic key to the subdivision of the territories of the city districts, the cities, districts and municipalities belonging to the district of December 5, 1968, Journal of Laws of III No. 12, p. 86
  3. ↑ 6. Government of the GDR, 36th meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers on October 11, 1972: Resolution on the establishment and management of the GDR's personal database , Federal Archives, DC 20-I / 4/2739
  4. ↑ 6th Government of the GDR, 113th meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers on September 19, 1974: Resolution on the establishment of resident data memories for the local state organs , Federal Archives, DC 20-I / 4/3160
  5. ↑ 1. Implementing provisions of the Personal Status Act of December 4, 1981, Journal of Laws of I No. 36 p. 425
  6. ↑ 6th Government of the GDR, 172nd meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers on February 5, 1976: Resolution on measures to coordinate the development of personal data storage , Federal Archives, DC 20-I / 4/3500
  7. ↑ 6th Government of the GDR, 190th meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers on June 24, 1976: Submission for the resolution on measures to coordinate the construction of personal data memories, Federal Archives, DC 20-I / 4/3589
  8. ↑ 6th Government of the GDR, 202nd meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers on October 13, 1976: Resolution on measures to coordinate the development of personal data memories, Federal Archives, DC 20-I / 4/3649
  9. ↑ 7th Government of the GDR, 100th meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers on November 30, 1978: Resolution on the further development of resident data memories of the local state organs , Federal Archives, DC 20-I / 4/4226
  10. ↑ 8th Government of the GDR, 1st meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers on July 8th, 1981: Resolution on the coordinated continuation of work on the development of personal data memories, Federal Archives, DC 20-I / 4/4792
  11. ↑ 8th Government of the GDR, 89th meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers on May 5, 1983: Resolution on the implementation plan for the resident data storage of the local state organs in 1984 and 1985 , Federal Archives, DC 20-I / 4/5177
  12. ↑ 8th Government of the GDR, 181st meeting of the Presidium of the Council of Ministers on June 6, 1985: Resolution on the results of the use of the resident data storage of the local state organs and the continuation of work from 1986 , Federal Archives, DC 20-I / 4/5614
  13. ^ Directory of the communities and districts of the German Democratic Republic. Edited by the State Central Administration for Statistics, status: January 1, 1968, Staatsverlag der DDR, Berlin 1968
  14. ↑ The administrative map of the GDR, published in 14 sheets from 1981 to 1984, refers to the six-digit community number as TGS (basic territorial key).
  15. ^ Order on the key structure of apartment numbers from December 6, 1976, Journal of Laws of I No. 49, p. 554