Fonds ARH, L - Landkreise - Collected stock 1945-2001

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History of the Inventor: On the history of the administrative districts in the Hanover area from 1945: On 6 April 1945 American combat troops reached the area in the south of today's Hanover region near the villages of Alferde and Boitzum in the district of Springe. On 8 April they occupied the district towns of Springe and Neustadt a. Rbge, on 10 April the seat of the district administration of Hanover in Ronnenberg and on 12 April the district town of Burgdorf. The public administration was placed under the control of the British military government, which appointed persons it liked, politically "unencumbered" as provisional leaders of the counties. Particularly urgent was the acute shortage of living space, which was mainly caused by the effects of war. The problem was exacerbated by the fact that large flows of refugees and displaced persons from the Russian-occupied eastern territories had to be accommodated and cared for. Food, heating materials and medicines for the entire district population were extremely scarce. The longer-term objectives of the military government included re-educating the population and introducing British-style democracy. Thus, on 01.04.1946, the revised German Community Code came into force. It was the basis for the establishment of a democratic administration at municipal and district level. For the first Kreistage 1946 the members were still appointed. The first free district elections after 1933 took place in Lower Saxony on 13.10.1946 according to a majority voting system. In the states of the British zone (Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia) the districts were municipalized; they were taken out of the central state administration and became independent. They were given a "double-track" leadership: a district administrator (honorary) elected by the district parliament as politically responsible and a senior district director (full-time) also elected by the district parliament, who headed the district administration according to the instructions of the district parliament. This constitution was valid up to the administrative reform of the 1990's. This district constitution was fixed by the Lower Saxonian administrative district order of the 01.07.1958, decided by the Lower Saxon state parliament. According to it three organs determined the happening in the districts:- district parliament (by the population for 5 years elected), - district committee (consisting of 11 district parliament delegates, by the district parliament for 5 years elected), - upper district director as a leader of the district administration (for 12 years by the district parliament elected).Chairman of the District Council and representative of the district was the District Administrator, a member of the District Council who was elected by the District Council. The Chief District Directors (until 1946 District Councillors) from 1945 to 1974:(cf. Droste, Herbert: Verwaltungsgeschichte des Landkreises Hannover. In: Heimatchronik of the district Hannover. Cologne, 1980, p. 236)County Burgdorf12.05.1945 - 12.11.1945 August Tünnermann01.12.1945 - 31.10.1950 Hermann Blanke01.11.1950 - 04.08.1972 Dr. Heinz Rotermund05.08.1972 - 28.02.1974 Friedel Wullekopf County Hannover20.04.1945 - 31.03.1948 Julius Fengler01.04.1948 - 31.12.1966 August Steppat01.01.1967 - 15.03.1971 Dr. Fritz Bischoff16.03.1971 - 31.10.1973 Armin Fleig (provisional)01.11.1973 - 28.02.1974 Herbert Droste (provisional)Landkreis Neustadt am Rübenberge26.05.1945 - 22.07.1947 Franz Raake23.07.1947 - 31.05.1948 Wilhelm Scharnhorst (provisional)01.06.1948 - 31.12.1963 Dr. Friedrich Homann01.06.1964 - 31.07.1971 Hans Meier01.08.1971 - 28.02.1974 Wolfgang Kunze (provisional)Landkreis Springe11.05.1945 - 28.10.1947 Julius Fengler28.10.1947 - 31.03.1954 Franz Raake01.04.1954 - 28.02.1974 Dr. Fritz JahnThe honorary councillors 1946-1974 (see Droste, Herbert: Verwaltungsgeschichte des Landkreises Hannover. In: Heimatchronik of the district Hannover. Cologne, 1980, p. 231-232):Landkreis Hannover08.01.1946 - 30.01.1966 Karl Schönemann (SPD)31.01.1966 - 22.03.1971 Günther Kiehm (SPD23.03.1971 - 28.02.1974 Jürgen Bauermeister (SPD)Landkreis Burgdorf28.01.1946 - 15.12.1948 Paul Laubsch (SPD)16.12.1948 - 21.10.1964 Willy Müller (DP, later CDU)22.10.1064 - 28.02.1974 Wilhelm Schaper (SPD)Landkreis Neustadt a. Rbge.03.12.1945 - 03.11.1947 Ernst Lisker (SPD)04.11.1947 - 20.12.1948 Karl Behrmann (DP)21.12.1948 - 10.01.1955 Wilhelm Dannenberg (DP)11.01.1955 - 26.01.1956 Albert Hahne (DP)27.01.1956 - 26.11.1956 Franz Rathmann (SPD)27.11.1956 - 15.11.1972 Friedrich Meyer (SPD)26.11.1972 - 28.02.1974 Alfred Semsroth (SPD)Landkreis Springe08.01.1946 - 22.02.1948 Otto Wehner (SPD)23.01.1948 - 05.01.1949 Wilhelm Remmer (SPD)06.01.1949 - 31.01.1951 Fritz Woltmann (DP)01.02.1951 - 26.01.1952 Heinrich Pfingsten (DP)27.01.1952 - 06.12.1952 Paul Kaschwig (CDU)07.12.1952 - 08.04.1953 Otto Siegmann (partyless)09.04.1953 - 07.06.1953 Fritz Vetter (BHE)08.06.1953 - 07.12.1953 Ernst Hilliger (partyless, later CDU)08.12.1953 - 29.11.1954 Hermann Seeger (SPD)30.11.1954 - 20.11.1956 Ernst Hilliger (CDU)21.11.1956 - 25.05.1959 Walter Lichtenberg (SPD)26.05.1959 - 28.02.1974 Wilhelm Böllersen (SPD)The administrative structure in Lower Saxony with its many small communities goes back to medieval conditions. The need for reform was obvious. This led to a discussion about the municipal reorganization of the Hanover area as well. This led to the administrative and territorial reform of the 1970s. At the district and community level, several small administrative units were merged into a few larger ones. The administrative districts Burgdorf, Hannover, Neustadt a. Rbge. and Springe were united by the Hanover law with effect from 01.03.1974 to a new administrative district Hanover. From the 12 cities and 180 municipalities existing in the district area until then, 20 new cities and municipalities were formed:The 20 cities and municipalities were: Barsinghausen, Burgdorf, Burgwedel, Garbsen, Gehrden, Hemmingen, Isernhagen, Laatzen, Langenhagen, Lehrte, Neustadt a. Rbge.., Pattensen, Ronnenberg, Seelze, Sehnde, Springe, Uetze, Wedemark, Wennigsen and Wunstorf The administrative seat of the new district of Hanover was located in the state capital Hanover. The administrative offices in the former district administrations in Burgdorf, Neustadt a. Rbge. and Springe were gradually dissolved in the years 1974-1978 or integrated into the administrative structure in Hanover. With the Lower Saxony municipal reform of 01.11.1996, the "single-track system" was introduced in the municipalities and districts at the head of administration, according to which the head of a municipality (district or municipality) is elected simultaneously by the people as political representative and as full-time head of administration. Accordingly, Dr. Michael Arndt was elected full-time district administrator at the end of the term of office of Herbert Droste, the long-standing senior district director, who took office on 01.06.1999. He held office as District Administrator until 2001, when the Region Hannover was formed by the Law on the Education of the Hannover Region of 16 May 2001 with effect from 1 November 2001. The district of Hannover and the association Greater Hannover were dissolved. Dr. Michael Arndt was elected "President of the Region" by the people of Hanover until 2001:1971-1981 Jürgen Bauermeister (SPD)1981-1989 Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt (CDU)1989-1996 Eberhard Wicke (CDU)1996-1998 Gertraude Kruse (SPD)1999-2001 Michael Arndt (SPD)Inventory history:The inventory "Landkreise ab 1945" comprises two administrative epochs:1) Files of the four administrative districts Burgdorf, Hanover, Neustadt a. Rbge. and Springe for the period of their existence from 01.04.1885 until their dissolution on 28.02.19742) Files of the new administrative district Hannover for the period of its existence from 01.03.1974-31.10.2001When Roswita Kattmann began her work in 1978 with the establishment of a district archive for the administrative district Hannover, first the file stocks had to be secured, which were still stored in rooms of the administrative seats of the former administrative districts Burgdorf and Neustadt a. Rbge. and Springe. In the cellar of the castle in Burgdorf it still found numerous old files, in the old registration of the district administration in Neustadt a. Rbge. the files were almost completely preserved starting from 1885. The employees of the former administrative district of Springe had, unfortunately, in connection with the relocations to the new administrative district in Hanover, which had become necessary due to the administrative and regional reform, thoroughly cleaned up and destroyed files on a large scale. Therefore only very few files of the local self-administration from the period 1885-1945 and only few files from the post-war years since 1945 are preserved from the administrative district Springe. many procedures from the formerly independent districts Burgdorf, Hanover, Neustadt a. Rbge. and Springe were in 1978 still in the registries of the clerks in the specialized offices of the administrative district Hanover. The specialist offices and departments gradually offered the district archives the files no longer required for ongoing business operations for transfer. The "Dienstanweisung zur Aktenführung bei der Verwaltung des Landkreises Hannover" of 11.01.1974 provided a basis for the proceedings. The Niedersächsische Archivgesetz of 25.05.1993 (Nds. GVBl. 1993, p. 129) made the proceedings a legal obligation. In the district of Hanover, this was taken quite seriously by some specialist departments, but others followed it only sluggishly.

Some files date back to well before the Second World War, some of them were already in use in April/May 1945 before the new district administrations were formed and in some cases even earlier. Fortunately, the most important documents - the minutes of the district assemblies, district committees and technical committees - have been preserved in their entirety. They particularly reflect the efforts of the circles to rebuild political, economic and social life. This collection documents, among other things, the establishment and development of central institutions such as schools, district hospitals and old people's and nursing homes. post-war years saw the districts take on special new tasks such as the establishment of district hospitals in addition to the great challenge of accommodating and caring for refugees and displaced persons. The hospitals in Hanover were badly damaged during the war and there were only other municipal hospitals in Lehrte and Neustadt a. Rbge. The four administrative districts initially set up makeshift hospitals in Großburgwedel, in Empelde in a former ammunition factory, in Barsinghausen and in the Springe hunting lodge. In the years 1962-1971 the newly built district hospitals Springe, Gehrden, Großburgwedel and Neustadt a. Rbg developed from this. As a result the district of Hannover took over the municipal hospital in Lehrte, 1971 the Agnes-Karll-Krankenhaus in Laatzen from the association of the Agnes-Karll sisters. TBC homes were built after the end of the war for the Burgdorf district in Lehrte from the site of the former Erichssegen potash mine and for the district of Hanover in the Waldkater restaurant in Wennigsen. Both homes were later used as nursing homes, the home in Wennigsen was closed in 1972, and from 1945 until the 1950s the creation of a school room was another compulsory task. Since the sixties, the school system in the counties has been considerably improved by the establishment of secondary schools and the new construction of secondary schools and grammar schools. Vocational schools were established and expanded. The construction and maintenance of vocational schools and special schools are the responsibility of the administrative districts. Due to the influx of a large number of elderly people from the former German eastern regions, it became necessary in the fifties to set up old people's and nursing homes.The effects of the administrative and regional reform of 1974 and the long journey there are reflected in the files of several departments.In order to document some partial tasks in the area of public order offices and the youth, social and housing offices entrusted with the fulfilment of social tasks, random samples of individual case files were repeatedly taken.---With Akzession 2009/5 1 operation book and 2 x-ray books of the district hospital Großburgwedel from the post-war years were taken over from 1946 onwards. Some medical records were taken as examples for the documentation in a district hospital. The takeover of these documents is the result of a survey conducted in 2007 by the data protection officer of the Hanover Clinic at the six former district hospitals to find archival documents. Older documents had already been collected almost everywhere, but stock L still contains numerous files on the former district hospitals and auxiliary hospitals from the post-war years from 1945 onwards, so that the development can be traced.Neustadt, a. Rbge. in May 2012gez. Roswita KattmannLiterature:- Droste, Herbert: Administrative history of the district of Hannover. In: Heimatchronik of the district Hannover. Cologne, 1980. pp. 177-236.

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