Finding aids: Findbuch 2007 (online searchable) Registraturbildner: Until the administrative reform of 1932, the forestry administration in Anhalt belonged to the department of the Mittelbehörde Finanzdirektion (Finance Directorate), established in 1874. At that time, the forest district administrations of Dessau, Haideburg, Sollnitz, Rossdorf, Nedlitz, Coswig, Serno, Aderstedt, Gernrode, Harzgerode, Güntersberge, Wörlitz and Lindau were subordinated to it. With the First Ordinance on the Transformation and Simplification of Administration of 4 July 1932, the central authorities were dissolved and their tasks transferred to five newly created departments of the Dessau State Ministry, the highest state authority. Initially, Sub-Division C of the Finance Department was responsible for the State Forestry Administration. In 1936, as a result of shifts in duties between the Finance Department and the Economics Department, the name of the subdivision changed from C to B. The forest administrations formerly subordinated to the Finance Directorate were now subordinated to this department. In the twenties of the twentieth century, the majority of forest district administrations had received the designation "Staatsoberförsterei" (State Forester's Office), apparently depending on the size of their area of responsibility and the qualification of the respective leader. Subdivision C, or later B, was immediately renamed "Anhaltisches Staatsministerium, Abteilung Finanzen, Landesforstverwaltung". The former forest district administrations became Anhalt Forestry Offices, which were responsible in their area for several district forest rangers and partly also for forest wardens. In 1937 the state forestry offices Nedlitz, Coswig, Serno, Dessau, Haideburg, Sollnitz, Aderstedt, Gernrode, Harzgerode and Güntersberge as well as the foundation districts of the Theater- und Joachim-Ernst-Stiftung (forestry offices Wörlitz, Roßdorf and Lindau) were subordinated to the "Department of Finance, State Forest Administration". On the basis of an agreement between the Herzogliche Treuhandverwaltung and the Anhaltisches Staatsministerium dated 24 December 1928, the latter had been transferred to state administration on 1 January 1929. The structure thus remained essentially unchanged until the end of the Second World War in 1945. The Dessau District Forestry Office, established in 1945, is to be regarded as the successor authority to the State Forestry Administration. Inventory information: In the 50s, 60s and 90s of the 20th century, the Oranienbaum State Archive took over numerous files from various Anhalt forestry authorities, including the Anhalt State Forestry Administration. The stock was formed in 1999 by new distortions. The files that had already been opened up were included in the archive holdings "Z 117-7 Finanzdirektion. Forest Matters 2" and are still included in it today. The source tradition of the Anhalt Forestry Administration and its subordinate forestry authorities, in contrast to that of other Anhalt authorities from the Nazi period, is relatively extensive. On the basis of the available documents, information on general changes in the Anhalt authority organisation, on personnel and settlement policy (creation of Reichsheimstätten), on the increased use of voluntary labour service and prisoners of war in forestry or on the acquisition of forest areas by the Reichswehrmachtfiskus for the expansion of military sites during this period can be traced. Additional information: The above-mentioned cards are contained in file units or have been removed from them for conservation reasons. Cards included: 35 Photos included: 12
Find aids: Findbuch 1982 (online searchable) Registraturbilddner: Staatsministerien als obererste Verwaltungsbehörden entstanden in den anhaltischen Teilfürstentümern als Folge der Revolution von 1848 und per Verordnung vom 5. April 1848, die eine dreistufige Staatsverwaltung ein eingeleitetitete. After the attack of the Bernburg Line on Anhalt-Dessau-Köthen in 1863, the former State Ministries of Dessau and Bernburg formed the State Ministry of Dessau on 13 September 1863. The Anhalt state ministries were formally responsible for all departments as higher authorities with "directing, ordering, supervising and executive power". There was no division into individual ministries. For the execution of certain specialist tasks, the governments and their specialist departments were subordinated to them as intermediate authorities, which in turn subordinated the district directorates as subordinate authorities. The separation of the judiciary and administration at all levels has been achieved through the establishment of specific judicial authorities. With the loss of the independence of the Länder and the establishment of the Reich Governor for Braunschweig and Anhalt, the State Ministry lost importance. When, after the end of the war, the old state of Anhalt was first incorporated into the province and then into the state of Saxony-Anhalt, a state ministry became obsolete as the highest authority. The tasks of the various ministerial departments, insofar as they were not directly assumed by the provincial government in Halle, were transferred to the newly formed central authority of the Dessau district administration. Inventory information: Most of the files were transferred to the Zerbst State Archives between 1923 and 1935, where they were filed under Rep. 9. Additional information: The filming took place as part of the GDR backup filming (so-called Fercher films). Cards included: 11 Photos included: 65