Finding aids: Findbuch 2007 (online searchable) Registraturbildner: Until the administrative reform of 1932, the forestry administration in Anhalt belonged to the department of the Mittelbehörde Finanzdirektion (Finance Directorate), established in 1874. At that time, the forest district administrations of Dessau, Haideburg, Sollnitz, Rossdorf, Nedlitz, Coswig, Serno, Aderstedt, Gernrode, Harzgerode, Güntersberge, Wörlitz and Lindau were subordinated to it. With the First Ordinance on the Transformation and Simplification of Administration of 4 July 1932, the central authorities were dissolved and their tasks transferred to five newly created departments of the Dessau State Ministry, the highest state authority. Initially, Sub-Division C of the Finance Department was responsible for the State Forestry Administration. In 1936, as a result of shifts in duties between the Finance Department and the Economics Department, the name of the subdivision changed from C to B. The forest administrations formerly subordinated to the Finance Directorate were now subordinated to this department. In the twenties of the twentieth century, the majority of forest district administrations had received the designation "Staatsoberförsterei" (State Forester's Office), apparently depending on the size of their area of responsibility and the qualification of the respective leader. Subdivision C, or later B, was immediately renamed "Anhaltisches Staatsministerium, Abteilung Finanzen, Landesforstverwaltung". The former forest district administrations became Anhalt Forestry Offices, which were responsible in their area for several district forest rangers and partly also for forest wardens. In 1937 the state forestry offices Nedlitz, Coswig, Serno, Dessau, Haideburg, Sollnitz, Aderstedt, Gernrode, Harzgerode and Güntersberge as well as the foundation districts of the Theater- und Joachim-Ernst-Stiftung (forestry offices Wörlitz, Roßdorf and Lindau) were subordinated to the "Department of Finance, State Forest Administration". On the basis of an agreement between the Herzogliche Treuhandverwaltung and the Anhaltisches Staatsministerium dated 24 December 1928, the latter had been transferred to state administration on 1 January 1929. The structure thus remained essentially unchanged until the end of the Second World War in 1945. The Dessau District Forestry Office, established in 1945, is to be regarded as the successor authority to the State Forestry Administration. Inventory information: In the 50s, 60s and 90s of the 20th century, the Oranienbaum State Archive took over numerous files from various Anhalt forestry authorities, including the Anhalt State Forestry Administration. The stock was formed in 1999 by new distortions. The files that had already been opened up were included in the archive holdings "Z 117-7 Finanzdirektion. Forest Matters 2" and are still included in it today. The source tradition of the Anhalt Forestry Administration and its subordinate forestry authorities, in contrast to that of other Anhalt authorities from the Nazi period, is relatively extensive. On the basis of the available documents, information on general changes in the Anhalt authority organisation, on personnel and settlement policy (creation of Reichsheimstätten), on the increased use of voluntary labour service and prisoners of war in forestry or on the acquisition of forest areas by the Reichswehrmachtfiskus for the expansion of military sites during this period can be traced. Additional information: The above-mentioned cards are contained in file units or have been removed from them for conservation reasons. Cards included: 35 Photos included: 12
