The district Bochum was formed in 1817 and in 1884/85, around the counties Gelsenkirchen and Hattingen reduced, it was divided into city and county Bochum. After the district was abolished in 1929, it was assigned to the city districts of Bochum, Witten, Herne and Dortmund. The holdings, which comprised 199 numbers at the time of the new indexing, were transferred to the State Archives in 1888 (116 files). A file was added in 1908. It was not possible to determine where the remaining files came from. By far the largest part of the district registry and the district committee is located in the city archive of Bochum. The serial numbers 153 to 1962 were given to the city of Witten in 1955. Further files of the administrative district are stored in the city archives of Gelsenkirchen and Witten (see old repertory for listings). In the case of the new registration, files 47, 117a, 121a and 128a were found to be missing. The numbers 37 and 96 are not documented. The new distortion was mainly performed by the trainees Dr. Becker, Dr. Fleckenstein, Hoen, Dr. Ostrowitzki, Dr. Prell and Dr. Uhde. Münster, January 1994 H. Müller The files no. 187 - 192 originate from the Zgg. 120/2010 of the police headquarters Bochum. They're listed under Classification Point 7. Police. Schraven, January 2011 Due to their personal character, individual volumes of records are blocked from regular use in the reading room. It is advisable to send an inquiry to the Landesarchiv NRW by e-mail to: westfalen@lav.nrw.de
General note: Due to their personal character, individual volumes are not allowed to be used regularly in the reading room. It is advisable to send a preliminary inquiry to the Landesarchiv NRW via e-mail to: westfalen@lav.nrw.de Of the holdings ¿Oberpräsidium der Provinz Westfalen¿ in the NW Staatsarchiv Münster, the present find book lists the files of the partial holdings ¿Polizei, Justiz, Militär¿. The Office of the Chief President, established in 1815/16 also in the province of Westphalia, was originally intended to play a more representative role. However, the very task of controlling the subordinate authorities, especially the district governments, lent weight to his work. The Office of the Chief President - and thus, for historical research, the files resulting from this function - acquired its actual significance through the task of representing the supreme state authorities on a special mission and in exceptional circumstances, in particular in the event of danger in arrears and in the event of war, i.e. when administration began to become political - in the narrower sense - in times of crisis. Political action by the chief president was also in demand when it came to exercising the rights of the state vis-à-vis the Protestant Church and, in the 19th century, especially vis-à-vis the Catholic Church. The portfolio of the Chief President also deserves special interest because it is a central fund for Westphalia. However, it is not self-evident that it also contains non-Westphalian subjects. These refer to the expansion of the competence of the Chief President for Westphalia in particular through the office of the "Chief of the Civil Administration" in connection with the preparation or in the first years of the Second World War, which brought with it an expansion of the area of responsibility also to the Rhineland. Beyond Westphalia, i.e. for the area of Wehrkreis VI, the district of the Chief President extended as "Reichsverteidigungskommissar". With a view to these focal points in the administrative work of the Chief President, the present volume ¿Polizei, Justiz, Militär - Chef der Zivilverteidigung, Reichsvereidigungskommissar¿ (Police, Justice, Military - Chief of Civil Defence, Commissioner for the Defence of the Reich) was selected for publication from a total of eleven finding aids now available in the Staatsarchiv Münster. This is essentially based on the modern archive indexing performed in 1972ff., the subject titles and classification of which were largely to be adopted. In the current preparation for printing, however, more intensive file analyses were carried out for titles that did not appear sufficiently meaningful. This is intended, inter alia, to draw attention to the events contained in the files which originated in other Prussian provinces and which, although sent for information only, nevertheless had a fundamental or model character. On the one hand, the file analyses thus aim at a greater use of a file tape. On the other hand, it is precisely through them that a superfluous excavation of archival records should be avoided, which seems increasingly necessary for conservation reasons. Last but not least, they can save the user disappointments if they relativize the content of ¿too promising¿ file titles. Manfred Wolf Münster 1991