Generalgouvernement between Weser and Rhine
The General between Weser and Rhein was after the defeat Napoleon 1813/14 1815/16 from 1814 to a provisional Prussian management unit under the Central Administration department of the Allies.
Emergence
General von Bülow as commander of the 3rd Prussian Army Corps appointed Ludwig von Vincke as general commissioner for the recaptured Prussian territories in the Westphalian region on November 14, 1813 . On November 19, a military government was established between the Weser and the Rhine. Heister was appointed major general as military governor and von Vincke was appointed civil governor. The official seat of Vincke was Münster .
Affiliation
These included the former Prussian areas in the former Grand Duchy of Berg , in the Kingdom of Westphalia and areas that were directly part of the French Empire . These were the:
- County mark
- Ravensberg county
- City of Lippstadt (Prussian part)
- Principality of Paderborn
- Principality of Minden
- County of Lingen
- County of Tecklenburg
- Hereditary Principality of Münster
- Herford Abbey
- Principality of Essen
- Principality Become
- Duchy of Cleves
- Principality of East Frisia
As part of the Convention of October 21, 1813, the non-Prussian areas came under the responsibility of the Allied Central Administration Department headed by Freiherr vom Stein . The territories Salm-Salm and Salm-Kyrburg , Salm-Horstmar , Croÿ , Looz , Arenberg-Meppen , Gemen , Steinfurt , Reichsstadt Dortmund, Limburg , Rheda , Vest Recklinghausen , the former diocese Corvey and Rietberg became the governorate between Weser and Rhine assumed.
Outline and changes
The area was divided into the Aurich Regional Directorate , the Bielefeld Government Commission , the Dortmund Regional Directorate , the Minden Government Commission , the Münster Government Commission and the Paderborn Government Commission .
In 1814 Meppen and parts of the Principality of Rheina-Wolbeck fell to the Kingdom of Hanover . In 1815, East Frisia , the Niedergrafschaft Lingen and some smaller areas followed. Conversely, in 1815 the Reckenberg office fell to Prussia.
A royal patent dated September 9, 1814, reintroduced general land law and the general court system in all areas that were Prussian before the Peace of Tilsit in 1807 . French law was repealed. From November 20, 1814, Prussian law also applied in the other areas of the Generalgouvernement on the right bank of the Rhine.
The End
In accordance with the resolutions of the Congress of Vienna on June 21, 1815 , Prussia officially took possession of the area comprised in the Generalgouvernement between the Weser and the Rhine . In the course of 1816, the civil government ended, after the province of Westphalia had been founded in 1815 with Vincke as its chief president. Some parts also fell to the later Rhine Province .
literature
- Rüdiger Schütz: Prussia and the Franco-Napoleonic "legacy" in the western provinces. In: Veit Veltzke (Ed.): Napoleon. Tricolor and imperial eagle over the Rhine and Weser. Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-17606-8 , p. 497f.
- Wilhelm Ribhegge: Prussia in the West. Struggle for parliamentarism in Rhineland and Westphalia 1789–1947. Münster 2008, p. 46ff.