Everything about Regierungsbezirk totally explained
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Regierungsbezirk is a government region of
Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states (
Bundesländer).
Regierungsbezirke are themselves further divided into
districts (
Kreise), either
Landkreise or urban districts: cities which constitute a district in their own right (
kreisfreie Städte). The
Regierungsbezirk is governed by a
Bezirksregierung and led by a
Regierungspräsident.
Not all
Bundesländer have this subdivision; some are directly divided into
districts. Currently, five states are divided into 22
Regierungsbezirke, ranging in population from 5,255,000 (
Düsseldorf) to 1,065,000 (
Gießen):
- Baden-Württemberg: Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Tübingen
- Bavaria: Oberbayern, Niederbayern, Oberpfalz, Oberfranken, Mittelfranken, Unterfranken, Schwaben
- Hessen: Darmstadt, Gießen, Kassel
- North Rhine-Westphalia: Arnsberg, Cologne, Detmold, Düsseldorf, Münster
- Saxony: Chemnitz, Dresden, Leipzig
History
The first
Regierungsbezirke were created by the
Kingdom of Prussia in
1808/
16, which divided its provinces into 25
Regierungsbezirke. The
Regierungsbezirke of North Rhine-Westphalia are in direct continuation of those created in 1815. Other states of the
German Empire created similar entities, named
Kreishauptmannschaft (in Saxony) or
Kreis (in Bavaria and
Württemberg) (not to be confused with the
Kreis or
Landkreis today). During the
Third Reich, the Nazi government unified the naming; since then all these entities are called
Regierungsbezirk.
On
January 1 2000 Rhineland-Palatinate disbanded its three
Regierungsbezirke Koblenz,
Rheinhessen-Pfalz and
Trier - the employees and assets of the three
Bezirksregierungen were converted into three public authorities responsible for the whole state, each covering a part of the former responsibilities of the
Bezirksregierung.
On
January 1,
2004,
Saxony-Anhalt disbanded its three
Regierungsbezirke:
Dessau,
Halle and
Magdeburg. The responsibilities are now covered by a
Landesverwaltungsamt with three offices at the former seats of the
Bezirksregierungen.
On
January 1,
2005,
Lower Saxony disbanded its four
Regierungsbezirke:
Braunschweig,
Hanover,
Lüneburg, and
Weser-Ems.
In 2005,
North Rhine-Westphalia planned to abolish its five
Regierungsbezirke and create three self-government entities. The old, "Prussian-style", Regierungsbezirk had no self-government organs.
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