With a systematic, top-ranking territorial reform at all three administrative levels – governmental districts, counties and municipalities – the Free State of Bavaria was given the first. July 1972 a new internal order. From 1967 the preparations were carried out, and in 1972 the new division of the circle was effective, until 1978 the communes were merged, and in 1983 the last corrections were completed. The number of municipalities fell from 7073 in 1970 to 2052 in May 1978, from 143 counties were 71, from 48 countless cities remained 25. The Ministry of Interior under Minister of State Dr. Bruno Merk (CSU) saw in the reform the decisive prerequisite for modern and citizen-oriented administration. Especially in the dissolved counties and municipalities there were some violent discussions and resistances. In order to commemorate the reform, a small exhibition was conceived by the Bavarian Main State Archive and the State Archive Augsburg. The preparatory work and plans, as well as the example of the government district of Schwaben, will focus on concrete implementation and protests. The last section is dedicated to the memory of territorial reform. The county of Schwaben halved in the course of territorial reform the number of counties of twenty formerly, of ten countless cities remained four; the rest were found with the status of a large district. The number of Swedish municipalities decreased from 1039 in 1970 to 340 after the reform, some of which were combin

On 14 and 15 In October 1922 Adolf Hitler and with him 650 SA men appeared in Coburg for the first time in a larger style outside Munich. The gathering of various vaterland and völk associations was ultimately dominated by Hitler’s SA, which, after violent confrontations with local emonstrators, claimed to have liberated Coburg from the “red terror” of the workers. The event took great attention throughout Germany and was anticipation of the crisis year 1923, at the end of which the Hitler coup stood. As a “mark of movement” it should be permanently inserted into the party myth of the NSDAP. The exhibition of the three institutions aims to illuminate the circumstances of Hitler's appearance in Coburg, to present important protagonists and scenes and to highlight the importance of the event for Coburg and the history of the NSDAP. Location: Foyer des Staatsarchiv Coburg, Herrgasse 11. The entrance is free. Opening hours: Mo-Do 8-16, Fr 8-13.30; Duration 17.10.2022-13.1.2023; closed 26.-30.12.2022, 6.1.2023. Submitted 10.10.2022, updated 21.10.2022