Period: 1945 - 1952 Scope: 32 linear metres = 1,875 units of description Cataloguing: ordered and indexed, provisional find book (2006) Citation method: AHR, 2.1.0. No. ... or AHR, City Assembly and City Council (1945 - 1952), No. ... Content: 1st Haupt- und Innere Verwaltung Kommandantur (1945-1951, 14 VE).- Landtag and Landregierung (1945-1952, 6 VE).- Stadtverordnetenversammlung and Rat (1945-1953, 24 VE).- Personalangelegenheiten, Personalakte (1945-1965, 135 VE).- Stellen- und Strukturpläne (1945-1953, 19 VE).- Organisation of administration (1945-1953, 45 units); - Municipalities (1945-1952, 13 units); - Legal issues, foundations (1882-1955, 25 units); - Improvement of administrative activity (1948-1952, 13 units); - Accounting and activity reports (1945-1952, 17 units).- Entries, inquiries and applications (1945-1950, 11 VE) - KPD, SPD, CDU, LDP, SED, social organisations (1945-1953, 14 VE) - Press and radio (1945-1952, 17 VE) - Correspondence with foreign countries, the western occupation zones and the FRG (1947-1951, 2 VE).- Budget, finances, taxes (1945-1953, 24 units) - Economy (1945-1953, 20 units) - Economic planning (1945-1953, 35 units) - Labour and career counselling (1945-1951, 5 units) - Maritime and port industries, fisheries and shipyards (1944-1952, 32 units) - Construction (1945-1952, 19 units).- Gas, water and energy supply (1945-1952, 8 units).- Municipal economic enterprises, local economy (1933-1952, 14 units).- Agriculture, forestry and allotment gardens (1945-1952, 22 units).- Transport, roads, bridges, ferry traffic (1937-1952, 13 units).- Trade and supply (1945-1951, 15 units).- Health care (1945-1953, 26 units) - Social welfare, resettlers (1945-1953, 16 units) - Housing, New homeland (1945-1952, 16 units) - Popular education (1945-1952, 19 units) - University, College of Music and Theatre, Promotion of Science (1945-1952, 6 units).- Youth issues and sport (1937-1954, 16 VE) - Culture (1945-1952, 17 VE) - Insurance, banks, savings bank (1945-1952, 4 VE) - Municipal property, buildings, cemeteries (1945-1952, 9 VE) - Works council, works union management, FDJ, DSF (1945-1952, 7 VE).- Elections (1946-1950, 10 units) - Order and law, courts and police (1921-1952, 23 units) - Demilitarisation (1945-1950, 2 units) - Denazification (1934-1950, 29 units) - Confiscation, expropriation (1945-1952, 63 units) - Start-up of persons and operations Oct. 1948 and Oct. 1949 (1948-1949, 32 films). 2. construction and housing - general administrative affairs of the building authority or the construction department (1945-1953, 11 units) - planning and accounting of investment buildings (1949-1952, 17 units) - urban planning (1947-1953, 7 units) - implementation of various construction projects (1945-1955, 28 units) - new housing construction (1945-1954, 71 units).- Conversion and reconstruction of residential buildings (1945-1954, 39 units) - Industrial buildings, commercial facilities (1945-1953, 10 units) - Buildings for education and research (1945-1953, 31 units) - Kindergartens, crèches, clinics (1949-1953, 9 units) - Sports buildings (1949-1952, 7 units) - Town hall extension (1948-1953, 10 units) - Housing (1945-1954, 50 units). 3. planning commission, local economy, agriculture planning commission (1949-1954, 31 units) - general administrative affairs of the economics and labour department (1946-1952, 11 units) - local economy (1946-1953, 23 units) - manpower management (1949-1953, 3 units) - agriculture (1949-1954, 23 units). (4) Finance General administrative affairs of the Finance Department (1947-1953, 5 CA) - Budget planning (1945-1952, 29 CA) - Financial control and taxation of crafts and trades (1945-1952, 7 CA).- Municipal account statements of the incorporated villages Toitenwinkel, Biestow, Evershagen, Petersdorf, Stuthof, Krummendorf and Peez (1934-1949, 14 VE) - Zollfahndungsstelle Warnemünde (1947-1950, 6 VE). 5. health and social services management and basic principles of the health and social services department (1945-1953, 14 units) - personnel matters and budget (1945-1952, 16 units) - statistics (1945-1952, 5 units).- Committees and commissions (1945-1952, 4 units) - Health and social welfare (1944-1952, 8 units) - Combating venereal diseases (1945-1954, 8 units) - Resettled persons and camps (1945-1949, 5 units) - Victims of fascism (1945-1952, 39 units). 6. popular education and culture general administrative affairs of the department of popular education and culture (1945-1952, 11 units); - committees (1945-1961, 3 units); - work plans and reports (1945-1952, 13 units).- Cooperation with political parties, cultural association, FDJ, pioneers and the press (1945-1951, 11 VE) - Municipal school administration (1945-1952, 8 VE) - Popular education investment project (1949-1951, 4 VE) - Kindergartens, homes, youth welfare (1947-1951, 4 VE).- University, Faculty of Workers and Farmers, College of Music, Conservatory, Adult Education Centre (1945-1952, 8 VE) - Cultural work (1945-1952, 27 VE) - Exhibitions and events (1945- 1953, 10 VE) - Municipal Cultural Business Enterprise (1945-1951, 3 VE).- Archive and museum (1945-1951, 4 VE) - Stadttheater, Deutsche Volksbühne, Junge Bühne, Niederdeutsche Bühne (1945-1953, 13 VE) - Lichtspieltheater (1945-1953, 6 VE) - Libraries and bookshops (1945-1954, 20 VE) - Professional musicians (1946-1952, 3 VE). 7. district administration head of the district elders (1945-1952, 35 VE) - individual districts and rural districts Diedrichshagen, Biestow and Krummendorf (1945-1953, 93 VE). 8. administrative office Warnemünde minutes and reports (1945-1952, 6 units) - administration and budget (1945-1952, 10 units) - social organisations (1945-1952, 4 units) - local administration (1945-1950, 8 units).- Economy (1945-1952, 15 units).- Allotment gardening and agriculture (1946-1950, 3 units).- Health, social and housing (1945-1952, 9 units).- Cultural and popular education (1945-1948, 5 units).- Denazification (1945-1949, 6 units). Overview: On 1 May 1945 Rostock was occupied without a fight by the troops of the Red Army. To counter the threat of chaos, a group of Communists and Social Democrats contacted the front commander. The Ordnungskomitee, as the group called itself, published an announcement on 3 May 1945 calling on the population to maintain peace and order. On 5 May 1945, the Red Army ended the temporary Front Command Office. In his Order No. 1 of 5 May 1945, the city commander declared the NSDAP and its organizations, the entire state and administrative apparatus dissolved. On 9 May 1945 Christoph Seitz, who had come to Rostock with the Red Army as Front Commissioner, was introduced as the new Lord Mayor. In the weeks and months to come, the focus of our work was on restoring and safeguarding everyday life. The reconstruction of the city administration resulted in the dismissal of the majority of the employees, as they had belonged to the NSDAP. In order to be able to penetrate the city administratively, it was divided into 26 districts. The leading positions in the city administration, built under the control of the Soviet commandant, were occupied by Communists, Social Democrats and some bourgeois Democrats formed in the four admitted parties KPD, SPD, CDU and LDP. An important turning point in the democratic legitimacy of the new city administration was marked by the establishment of the City Committee on 18 December 1945, in which representatives of the parties acted in an advisory capacity. In February 1946, the military administration appointed Social Democrat Albert Schulz as the new mayor. Within the SPD, Schulz was among those who opposed the increasingly obvious intention to change the social and economic system in the spirit of Stalinist communism. The local self-government regained its democratic foundation in September 1946 through the "Democratic Community Constitution". The municipal constitution appointed the municipal council, which had emerged from secret, equal and direct elections, as the supreme organ of the city. The executive body for implementing the decisions should be the Council. The first free elections to the City Council took place on 15 September 1946. The municipal constitution as well as the constitution of the Land Mecklenburg adopted on 15 January 1947 had laid down the principle of municipal self-government, but under the given conditions the towns and municipalities could hardly bring this principle to life. The reconstruction of the society according to the Soviet model had serious consequences for the cities in the eastern occupation zone. The introduction of the state planned economy with the biennial plan of 1949/50 was associated with a far-reaching loss of financial independence for the cities. In addition, there was the elimination of economic independence. In the first half of 1949, all municipal service and utility companies as well as the real estate had to be combined into a special municipal utility company (KWU). The company was granted the status of an institution under public law, which was effectively removed from the local administration. The SED used the clashes over these measures to launch heavy attacks against the Lord Mayor Schulz, who resigned in August 1949 and fled to the West. His successor was the Lord Mayor of Greifswald, Max Burwitz (SED). As an important instrument for steering and controlling the other political forces, the SED systematically expanded the National Front as the umbrella organization of all parties and mass organizations from the beginning of 1950. The postponed elections to the City Council were held on 15 October 1950 for the first time under the sign of the National Front's Unity Lists. Due to a lack of alternatives, the result was clear from the outset. The administrative reform of 23 July 1952 was another important step towards aligning state forms with the model in the Soviet Union. With the formation of the 15 districts, the GDR eliminated the last remnants of federalism and made state centralism, declared "democratic", the lynchpin of the political system. The three districts of Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg emerged from the state of Mecklenburg. The city of Rostock became the seat of the newly formed council of the district. The integration of the communal level into the centralist system took place through the regulations adopted on 8 January 1953 by the Council of Ministers of the GDR on the structure and tasks of the municipal councils and district assemblies. Publications: Rackow, Heinz-Gerd: The foundations of municipal policy in the city of Rostock in the period from 1945 to the founding of the GDR, Rostock 1959 Sieber, Horst: 40 years ago: New city council after first democratic elections, in: Contributions to the history of the city of Rostock. Neue Folge, Rostock 1986 H. 6, p. 11-20 Schulz, Albert: Memoirs of a Social Democrat, Oldenburg 2000 Michelmann, Jeanette: Activists of the first hour. The Antifa in the Soviet Occupation Zone, Cologne et al. 2002, pp. 310-328 Woyke, Meik: Albert Schulz (1895-1974). Ein sozialdemokratischer Regionalpolitiker, Bonn 2006 (Historical Research Centre of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung. Series Political and Social History, 73) Sens, Ingo: In doubt against the defendants. The show trials against the Rostock city councillors Hans Griem and Martin Müller, Rostock 2009
