ISBN: 9781154402001

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IX THE REORGANIZATION OF PRUSSIA FROM the time of the rearrangement of Prussia''s boundaries in 1815, King Frederick William had seen the necessity of a new division of his provinces of East Prussia, Silesia and other districts. This redistribution was accomplished with the old historical tact. Yet it was done with the firm resolution not to grant to any province, under the pretense of special privileges, an exception from the system of state administration. Despite the many objections raised against the separation of districts which had belonged together, and the joining of others which had been separated, the work was carried out so successfully that to this day the provinces of Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia, Posen, Saxony, Westphalia, East and West Prussia remain in exactly the form in which they were established at that time. The only changes necessary have been in the Rhineland, where two districts were afterward contracted into a single province. By request of the king, the presidents of the provinces were placed at the head of the provincial government, as intermediaries between the king''s ministers and his subjects. Administrative officials, as well as judges, have the usual misfortune that their names vanish with their work from the memory of posterity, and even the contemporary world usually hears only of the ability of the highest ofHcers of the government. But the importance of the first presidents was so extraordinary that the names, Vincke, Schon, Merkel, Sack and Zerboni, still live and have a good sound in Westphalia, Prussia, Silesia, Pomerania and Posen. But as the newly planted seed produces little in the first years, until in the course of time it has developed its full strength and beauty, so it was that the new organisms of ... Charles Francis Horne, Books, History, History Of The German People From The First Authentic Annals To The Present Time (volume 12) Books>History, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1154402002

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