Note: The holdings contain archival material that is subject to personal protection periods in accordance with § 10 Para. 3 Sentence 2 ArchG LSA and until their expiration is only accessible by shortening the protection period in accordance with § 10 Para. 4 Sentence 2 ArchG LSA or by accessing information in accordance with § 10 Para. 4a ArchG LSA. Find aids: Findbuch 2001 (online searchable) Registraturbilddner: Offices as their own administrative level emerged in the course of a radical general reorganization of the municipal conditions in 1878. this reorganization had become necessary due to the diversity of the municipal constitutions in the two halves of Anhalt-Bernburg and Anhalt-Dessau-Köthen united in 1863, which had led to divergences within individual districts as a result of the merging of districts from areas of the two constituent states. In 1878, according to the Prussian model, administrative districts were inserted between the level of the districts and that of the municipalities. With the exception of the ducal castle districts and the cities, the five Anhalt districts were divided into official districts. This system of office formation also included the manor districts outside the municipal districts as well as the state fiscal domains and forests. The administrative districts could consist of one or more rural municipalities or one or more manor districts or rural municipalities and manor districts. The district administration was headed by a head official. The offices were responsible in particular for the rural police administration. With the formation of the administrative districts as districts of the general state administration in 1878, the police tasks of the former local police were transferred to the offices. Within the framework of the establishment of the police administration in Anhalt, the head of the local police was now in charge of the local police, in particular the security, order, customs, health, poor, road, water, field, forestry, fishing, trade, construction, fire police, etc., insofar as these were not reserved for the district directorate by special statutory provisions. As a police authority, the head of the office had the right to issue police ordinances for the district. As organs of the head of the municipality, the heads of the municipalities were entitled, among other things, to arrest and hold persons in custody. The heads of the municipalities also acted as organs of the office in the registration and deregistration of persons, the control of the drawing up of Gesindebücher or the health police. In 1935, all regulations concerning municipalities and manor districts were repealed and responsibilities transferred to the district committees. Of the 14 offices in total (Amt Aderstedt, Altenburg, Gerbitz [Pobzig], Giersleben [Warmsdorf], Gröna, Hohenerxleben, Ilberstedt, Kleinmühlingen [Mühlingen], Latdorf, Mehringen, Neundorf, Oberpeißen, Rathmannsdorf, Schackstedt), which existed in the district of Bernburg, have been handed down from nine offices (Altenburg, Gerbitz [Pobzig], Giersleben [Warmsdorf], Gröna, Hohenerxleben, Mühlingen, Latdorf, Neundorf, Rathmannsdorf). Rathmannsdorf and Hohenerxleben an der Bode belonged to the noble court of the von Krosigk family until 1850. When the districts in Anhalt-Bernburg were formed, the court district was added to the Bernburg district. When the offices were established in 1878, the community of Rathmannsdorf was merged with the manor to form one office. In 1952 the municipality Rathmannsdorf came to the district Staßfurt, district Magdeburg in execution of the administrative reform and reorganization of the countries. Inventory information: The stock of the Rathmannsdorf office was transferred in 1971 from the Staßfurt County Council to the Oranienbaum State Archive (today the Saxony-Anhalt State Main Archive, Dessau Department). The main focus is on: Judicial police and criminal justice, measures immediately after the National Socialists seized power, security police, citizen/people's militia, health police, veterinary police.