Find aids: Findbuch 1999, Findkartei Registraturbilddner: On 1 October 1817, a Higher Appeal Court was established for Anhalt-Dessau, Anhalt-Bernburg and Anhalt-Köthen with its seat in Zerbst. It existed until 1849 and was supervised by the state government. With the separation of the judiciary and the administration, the call for a fundamental reform of the judiciary had become loud. Now the entire administration of justice was exercised in the first instance by district courts established in Dessau, Köthen and Zerbst in conjunction with individual judges in district court commissions, and in the second instance by the Higher Regional Court in Dessau. After the dissolution of the Zerbst Higher Appeal Court, the third instance became the Higher Appeal Court for the Thuringian states in Jena. With the conclusion of a state treaty between the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar on the annexation of the Duchies of Anhalt-Dessau, Anhalt-Köthen and Anhalt-Bernburg to the Higher Appellate Court in Jena, new regulations for the judicial authorities in Anhalt came into force by the "Law on the Organisation of the Court Authorities" of 23 March 1879. The Higher Regional Court, the District Courts of Dessau, Köthen, Zerbst, Bernburg and Ballenstedt and the District Court Commissions of Oranienbaum, Jeßnitz, Coswig, Roßlau, Sandersleben, Nienburg and Harzgerode were repealed. For Anhalt, a regional court with its seat in Dessau was established, and by decree of 24 March 1879 the local courts of Ballenstedt, Bernburg, Coswig, Dessau, Harzgerode, Jeßnitz, Köthen, Oranienbaum, Roßlau, Sandersleben and Zerbst were established as the first court instance. The following places belonged to the district court district of the district court Dessau: Dessau with Neuwülknitz and Rodebille, Alten with Brachmeierei, Dellnau, Diesdorf, Elsnigk, Fraßdorf, Friedrichsdorf, Hinsdorf, Jonitz, Kleutsch with Schwarzer Stamm, Kochstedt, Körnitz, Großkühnau, Kleinkühnau, Lausigk, Libbesdorf, Lingenau, Meilendorf, Mosigkau, Naundorf, Pötnitz, Quellendorf, Reppichau, Reupzig, Rosefeld, Scheuder, Scholitz, Sollnitz, Storkau, Törten, Zehmigkau and Ziebigk. Immediately after 1945, the district courts were renamed district courts and partly restructured, but as early as 1947 they were largely returned to their old organizational form. The judicial system was not restructured until 1952, when an ordinance was issued to adapt the structure of the courts to the structure of the state apparatus. Inventory information: The files were transferred to the archives with several copies of individual files and were formed into the "District Court Dessau (with District Court Dessau-Köthen)".
Contains among other things: "Diplomatic Missions - communication with foreign offices and foreigners (visits), former German colonies - promotion of the Kolonialbund.
Contains among other things: 25 years of German folk growth work abroad.
Contains among other things: Personnel matters Landpostamt Warnstedt, Cameroon, Quarmbeck.
Contains among other things: Directory of field telegraph stations in German South West Africa.
Find aids: Findbuch 1978, Revision 1988 (online searchable) Registraturbilder: The DCGG was founded on 12.03.1855 in Dessau on the initiative of the entrepreneur Viktor von Unruh and the Dessau banker Louis Nulandt. At first a gasworks was built in Dessau, which supplied the city with town gas for street lighting from 1856 onwards. This was followed by gas works in cities at home and abroad, such as Mönchengladbach, Magdeburg, Frankfurt/Oder, Mülheim/Ruhr, Potsdam, Warsaw and Lemberg. In 1857, Unruh brought the engineer Wilhelm Oechelhaeuser sen. into the company. In 1859 Nulandt retired after accusations of irregularities and Oechelhaeuser became the sole director general. Both the production of appliances for the sale of gas and the production of gas-consuming appliances themselves grew rapidly. The Centralwerkstatt Dessau was founded in 1871 to convert existing gas meters and to produce new ones. In 1921, the Centralwerkstatt merged with Carl Bamberg Werkstätten für Präzisionsmechanik in Berlin-Friedenau to form Askania-Werke AG. In 1872, Berlin-Anhaltische Maschinenfabrik AG (BAMAG), which manufactured the vertical furnaces used in the gas works, and Dessauer Waggonbau AG, which manufactured gas-powered trams, operated in Dessau. From 1886 Dessau received the second power station in Germany after Berlin. The required generators were developed by Wilhelm von Oechelhaeuser jun. Together with Hugo Junkers, brought into the factory in 1888, they succeeded in using powerful two-stroke counter-piston engines from 1892 onwards. Wilhelm von Oechelhaeuser jun. followed his father in 1889 as general director. Under the management of Bruno Heck, the company achieved a dominant position in Central Germany in 1917 with the founding of Elektrizitätswerke Sachsen-Anhalt AG in Halle. When the property located in the Soviet occupation zone was expropriated after the end of the war, the company moved its headquarters to Hagen/Westphalia in 1947. The alleged transfer of assets was the reason for the GDR's first Stalinist show trial, which was negotiated in 1950 under Hilde Benjamin in Dessau and ended with high prison sentences. The inventory is supplemented by the deliveries of the E-Werke in Bernburg, Dessau and Coswig. Inventory information: The collection was handed over in 1967 by the archive of the VEB Energieversorgung Halle to the then Historische Staatsarchiv Oranienbaum, now Abteilung Dessau. Small supplements were added in 1978. Included photos: 110
Search aids: Search book from 1814, Neues Findbuch 2016 (online searchable) Registrar: Already in the Constitution of the Kingdom of Westphalia of 7 December 1807 (Bull. 1807/08 I, 3) the division into departments, districts and municipalities for the Kingdom had been introduced by Art. 34 to 37. The total number of departments was between eight and twelve, the number of districts in a department between three and five. In each department, in addition to the prefect, a general secretary, a prefecture council and a general department council were established for the administration. The entire administration in the narrower sense belonged to the department of the Ministry of the Interior. The prefect was entrusted, under royal authority and supervision, with all branches of public administration, including tax administration, within the scope of his department. In addition, there were military tasks such as the recruitment and supervision of the National Guards, troop catering, preparation and implementation of troop recruitment. In the district of his département capital he also held the office of sub-prefect. The Secretary General was the permanent representative of the Prefect. He was the director of the administrative office, took care of the expeditions and managed the archives. The remaining subjects were dealt with in the offices of the departments. The Prefectural Council, consisting of three to four members under the chairmanship of the Prefect in each department, was the rulings authority on disputed matters. The prefectural councils decided as administrative authorities and their decisions could only be annulled by the Council of State. The General Council, composed of candidates proposed to the King from the Departmental Colleges, consisted of fifteen to twenty members. This committee elected the prefect and the secretary from among its members. The General Council of the Department met once a year for two weeks. He had to distribute the direct taxes among the individual districts, decide on the requests for tax reductions received from the district councils and municipalities, determine the subsidies for the departmental expenses and submit the accounts. Finally, he was entitled to comment on the situation and needs of the department. Each department was divided into three to five districts. Each district was headed by the subprefect, assisted by the secretary of the subprefecture and a district council. The districts were divided into five to 19 cantons, with larger cities forming their own cantons (= city districts). At the head of a canton stood the Canton Mayor, who was usually also Maire of his residence. He stood between the sub-prefect and the communemaires and supervised the communemaires, whose management he headed. A Mayre, one or more police inspectors and a municipal council were appointed to administer the individual municipalities. Maire was responsible for the administration of the municipal property and the municipal institutions and supervised the local police. He was also responsible for municipal spending. The Elbe département was formed from the left Rhine parts of the duchy of Magdeburg, the county of Barby, the offices of Gommern (Saxony), Calvörde (Brunswick), Klötze (Hanover), parts of the principality of Halberstadt and the Altmark. The capital of the department was Magdeburg. The department consisted of the districts of Magdeburg, Neuhaldensleben, Stendal and Salzwedel. The first prefect of the Elbe Department was the former Prussian District Administrator Ernst Alexander von der Schulenburg, who was suspended in the summer of 1811 and replaced by the Police Prefect of Kassel, who had been General Director of the High Police until October 1809. Inventory information: The holdings came via the government archive Magdeburg (time of the Kgr. Westphalen Ba Nr. 1) into the today's state archive. In former times it was called Rep. A 76 III Ba No. 1. The traditions of the central authorities of the Kingdom of Westphalia are now kept in the Secret State Archives of Prussian Cultural Heritage in Berlin. In June and July 2016, the retroconversion of the distortion information took place, which was reviewed in August 2016 and supplemented by numerous German file titles. In this context, the history of the registry formers and the inventory information were entered and a new finding aid book was compiled.
Contains: The story of the little Ahanda from Elisabeth von Gustedt: The German Colonial Book pp. 302-307 (copy).
Contains among other things: Publications on the development and enlargement of the Kriegsmarine, on German colonial acquisition and on the development of the Kiautschou area (illustrated).
Contains among other things: Excerpt from the Protocol on the Forced Auction of Property in Dörnitz, 1923 - Final judgment in the matter of the Kolonialkriegerdank Berlin Association against the Fuhrmann Company in Dörnitz and the Deutsche Reichspost. Oberpostdirektion Magdeburg, 1927 - Judgment on revaluation claims against the Reichspostfiskus.
Contains among other things: Memorandum about the indigenous politics and Herero uprising in German Southwest Africa and about the course of the uprising with overview map.