Amt (country subdivision)

Office is a term for various administrative divisions.

The name goes back to the bailiff, in each neighborhood also Amtshauptmann, a regional institution (authority) of the administration of the sovereign.

Examples

  • Germany: Office ( Municipal Law ), a municipal corporation under public law in Brandenburg, Mecklenburg- Vorpommern and Schleswig -Holstein
  • Former district classification in Mecklenburg, see History of Mecklenburg
  • Former delimitation of constituencies in the Kingdom of Hanover
  • District historically, especially in northern Germany, for example, in Prussia, also top the exchange, eg in Württemberg
  • See also: Offices in lip offices in Westphalia
  • Administrative unit
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