Record Group - 02.03.03.05 Police authorities

Until the 19th century, police duties and functions in Saxon towns and municipalities were performed by patrimonial and city authorities. With the entry into force of the General City Regulations for the Kingdom of Saxony on 2 February 1832 and the Rural Community Regulations on 7 November 1838, police jurisdiction was shifted for the first time to the city and municipal councils. The Revised City Regulations and the Revised Rural Community Regulations of 24 April 1873, according to which the performance of these tasks was completely transferred to the lower administrative level, made a final determination. Towns and municipalities received financial support for the execution of this government contract. State supervision was carried out by the responsible official authorities. In the large cities of Dresden and Leipzig, and later also in other cities, the police offices were not subject to the supervision of the official authorities.<br/><br/>In the Free State of Saxony, the Police Amendment Act of 27 June 1921 and the Implementation Ordinance of 15 September 1922 meant that the State Ministry of the Interior took over the entire criminal investigation department. In the larger cities, this also affected the security and order police. The competence of the newly formed police headquarters extended to the maintenance of public peace, order and security, passport and registration systems, press censorship, traffic safety, the supervision of pubs and entertainment facilities, as well as the discovery and loss of property.<br/><br/>With the Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich of 30 January 1934, police sovereignty was transferred from the Länder to the Reich Ministry of the Interior. The salaries of the civil servants were gradually taken over by the Reich budget in the following years. With the decree of 17 June 1936, the entire police force was subordinated to the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, who since then also called himself the "Chief of the German Police".<br/><br/>In the context of the formation of the Saxony State Administration on 9 July 1945, a police department was set up in the Department of Internal Affairs and National Education. With the establishment of the state government in December 1946, the state authority of the German People's Police was established in the Saxon Ministry of the Interior. With the "Law on the Further Democratization of the Structure and Operation of State Organs" of 23 July 1952, all state authorities were dissolved and police tasks were centralized in the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR. By order of the Chief of the German People's Police, the formation of 14 district authorities of the German People's Police (BDVP) was ordered, to which 77 Volkspolizeikreisämtern (VPKA) were subordinated.

Saxon State Archives (Archivtektonik) >> Kingdom and Free State of Saxony 1831 - 1945 >> Specialist authorities and subordinate bodies >> 02.03.03 Interior

Es gilt die Sächsische Archivbenutzungsverordnung (SächsGVBl. Jg.2003, Bl.-Nr. 4 S. 79)

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