Introduction : C 2 - Warburg Health DepartmentWith the "Law on the Unification of the Health System" of 3 July 1934, the establishment of health departments was ordered in the city and county districts on the basis of the lower administrative authority on 1 April 1935. The health offices were entrusted with the following tasks: health police, hereditary and race care including marriage counselling, public health education, school health care, maternal and child counselling, care for tuberculosis, sexually ill persons, physically handicapped persons, infirmity and addicts. In addition, it was planned to involve doctors in measures to promote personal hygiene and physical exercise as well as in official, court and confidential medical activities. The health offices were state institutions run by a state medical officer. The state health department in Warburg began its service on 1 May 1935. Initially, until June 1935, Dr. Walter Czerwionka, a medical assessor employed as a district physician since 1 February 1934, took over the management. However, Dr. Carl Kirchner began his service as director on 5 June 1935. The seat of the health office became the district administration office (Kreishaus), in which rooms for preventive health care already existed and in which the health office moved into the rooms that were actually intended to be used as a district administration apartment. However, these rooms were completely inadequate for the new requirements. Thus the winter garden, which was difficult to heat, was used as a waiting room and, since the appointment of an assistant doctor in January 1937, as her consulting room with "unbearable cold in winter", whereby the hallway had to become a waiting room. In 1941 the district administrator's room came to the health department. A new building was considered for several years, but planning was discontinued in 1942 due to the war. In May 1945 rooms and inventory were heavily devastated by the occupation soldiers. In May 1945, the district officer of the British military government seized the premises of the health department. The Health Department found an - inadequate and expensive - alternative quarter in the Commerzbank building and from 1951 in its rear building, the former hall of a hotel divided by press fabric walls. In 1959 the health department moved into a new building next to the district hall. By a joint decree of the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Finance of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia of 27 January 1947, it was ordered that the costs of the former state health offices for the accounting year 1947 be provided for in the district budgets. This also applied to the personnel costs of the medical officers. Until the end of the accounting year 1946 on 31 March 1947, the costs of the health offices were still borne by the State Treasury. By decree of 19 March 1947, the Minister of Social Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia ordered the districts to take over the entire staff and inventory. Thus the State Health Office Warburg was transferred to the district. The legal regulation took place only later. On 30 April 1948, the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia passed the "Law on the Integration of State Special Authorities of the District Stage into the District and City Administrations". The first state medical officer and head of the health department was Dr. med. Carl Kirchner (born September 21, 1889 in Merseburg), who retired on March 31, 1952 due to a serious illness. On August 1, 1952, Dr. Karl-Theodor Roeingh, Medical Councillor, took over the management of the health office. Horst Zeidler, MD, was the last senior medical officer of the Warburg district. The holdings contain the files as they were transferred from the Warburg branch to the district archives. A small collection of 56 numbers of splinters can be found in the Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen (department OWL) in Detmold as "D 102 Gesundheitsamt Warburg". According to information in No. 80 of the holdings in the district archives, "a large part of the files of the health department was destroyed by the effects of war in 1945". A considerable part of the files and processes contained in the holdings are subject to official medical secrecy and may therefore only be used within 60 years of the creation of the documents or the final year of the file under special consideration of § 7 Paragraph 6 of the Archivgesetz Nordrhein-Westfalen (ArchivG NRW) of 16 March 2010. In the case of personal archive records, the provisions of § 7 (1) No. 1-3 and § 7 (6) No. 1-4 ArchivG NRW must also be taken into account. Höxter, February 2013 (Horst-D. Krus) It is to be quoted: District Archives Höxter C 2 No. ....
