Regierungsbezirk
In Germany, a Government District of a district general state funding authority, are bundled in the departmental different tasks. This authority is headed by a president and government itself bears the name of President of the Government ( historical ), regional council ( in Baden- Württemberg, Hesse), government ( in Bavaria) or county government ( in North Rhine -Westphalia).
The country's Central Authority stands as intermediary authority between upper and supreme state authorities (Ministry ) and the district as a lower state authority for the district of a circle.
This management level is established only in some larger area countries. Partial discussed abolish the regional councils and to bundle the tasks nationwide to move ( by ministries or state of Upper authorities ) or to the municipal level. Several states have already abolished the administrative districts.
In Baden- Württemberg, however, the regional councils were strengthened by the administrative reform of 2005 by many tasks have been delegated by then independent state authorities them. A similar trend is emerging in North Rhine -Westphalia. With the beginning of 2007, various special authorities (eg State environmental agencies, offices, agricultural policy, offices of labor protection) are incorporated into the district governments. Part of their activities should then be shifted also to the municipalities. The industry representatives have this step originally advocated as bureaucracy. Increasingly, however, expression of concerns (BDI, VCI) that local dependencies can not guarantee availability of previous independent legal standard.
History
After Bayern (1806 ) Prussia was divided 1808-1816 its territory into provinces and administrative regions. The latter gave out since 1811 an official journal of public messages.
During the time of the German Empire, there were in the larger states also government districts as a means instance of the state administration, however, partially under a different name: Circles in Bavaria and Württemberg, provinces in Hesse, state commissioner districts in Baden, circle the main teams in Saxony. The terms were matched in the Nazi era of the Prussian government district designation.
After 1945, the administrative districts were established in most large states again as a State resource instance. The managing authority for the government districts whose boundaries have changed in the course of its history several times, was either called " regional council ", " government ", " President of the Government " or " county government ". Head of this authority, the Mayor is.
In the GDR, the abolition of the countries in the administrative reform of 1952 so-called districts were set up in the course of which areas are only partly covered by the previous government districts. In the resettlement of countries in the nascent resolution in GDR 1990 government districts were only in Saxony -Anhalt and Saxony again created, but no longer exist today (see following section).
Regierungsbezirke
There are administrative districts in the following countries:
- Baden- Württemberg - 4 administrative districts: Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Tübingen
- Bavaria - 7 administrative districts: Upper Bavaria, Lower Bavaria, Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria. Regardless of these district governments as State resources authority also exist with these congruent self-governing bodies, the districts
- Hesse - three administrative districts: Darmstadt, Giessen, Kassel
- North Rhine -Westphalia - 5 district governments: Arnsberg, Detmold, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Münster
There is no division into administrative districts more in the following countries:
- Rhineland -Palatinate (since 2000)
- Saxony -Anhalt (since 2003)
- Lower Saxony (since 2005, division remained but for the police departments and the Lower Saxony State School Board receive )
- Saxony (since March 1, 2012, where the government districts were renamed on 1 August 2008 in the course of administrative reform in management districts, these three principals districts but then merged on 1 March 2012 on a single Saxon State Directorate )
Brandenburg, Mecklenburg- Vorpommern and Thuringia have no government districts set on joining the Federal Republic of Germany in 1990, in Schleswig -Holstein and Saarland there was never government districts.
Former government districts
- Dissolved before 1945: Berlin (Brandenburg, 1822)
- Kleve ( Jülich- Kleve -Berg, 1822)
- Reichenbach (Silesia, 1820 )
- Stralsund ( Pomerania, 1932)
- West Prussia ( East Prussia, 1939)
- Bromberg (Poznan / Danzig-West Prussia)
- Danzig (West Prussia / Danzig-West Prussia)
- Marie Werder (West Prussia / Danzig-West Prussia)
- Poznan (Poznan / Wartheland )
- Hohensalza ( Warta Country )
- Katowice ( Silesia)
- Lodz ( was called until 1941 the administrative district of Kalisch; Wartheland )
- Zichenau ( East Prussia )
- Olsztyn ( East Prussia )
- Breslau ( Silesia)
- Gumbinnen ( East Prussia )
- Pomerania ( Pomeranian )
- Königsberg ( East Prussia )
- Liegnitz (Silesia )
- Opole (Silesia )
- Schneidemühl ( Pomerania )
- Stettin ( Pomerania )
- Minden (North Rhine -Westphalia, 1947)
- Sigmaringen ( Hohenzollern land, 1946)
- Minden -Lippe ( North Rhine -Westphalia, 1947)
- Erfurt ( Thuringia, 1945)
- Frankfurt (Brandenburg, 1952)
- Halle (Saxony -Anhalt, 1952; founded after reunification )
- Magdeburg (Saxony -Anhalt, 1952; founded after reunification )
- Merseburg ( Halle- Merseburg, 1945)
- Potsdam (Brandenburg, 1952)
- Zwickau (Saxony, 1946)
- Baden, Chairman of the District
- Württemberg, North Rhine District
- Aachen (North Rhine -Westphalia, 1972)
- Aurich ( Lower, 1978)
- Brunswick County ( Lower, 1978)
- Hildesheim (Lower Saxony, 1978)
- Montabaur (Rheinland-Pfalz, 1968)
- North Baden (Baden- Württemberg, 1973)
- North Württemberg (Baden- Württemberg, 1973)
- Oldenburg, County ( Lower, 1978)
- Osnabrück (Lower Saxony, 1978)
- Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz, 1968)
- Rheinhessen ( Rheinland -Pfalz, 1968)
- Stade ( Lower, 1978)
- South Baden (Baden- Württemberg, 1973)
- South Württemberg -Hohenzollern (Baden- Württemberg, 1973)
- Wiesbaden ( Hesse, 1968)
- Rheinhessen-Pfalz
- Trier
- Koblenz
- Dessau
- Hall
- Magdeburg
- Brunswick
- Hanover
- Lüneburg
- Weser -Ems
- Direktionsbezirk Chemnitz
- Direktionsbezirk Dresden
- Direktionsbezirk Leipzig