The provisional character, indeed the ultimately failed construction of the "City of the KdF-Wagen" manifests itself in a special way in the history of the accommodation of the municipal administration. Until the end of the war in May 1945, the mayor's office and the municipal administration were housed in a complex of barracks on Schachtweg.

Significantly, the new municipality did not even own its administrative buildings. Rather, the barracks on the site were owned by the Kreissparkasse Gifhorn, which had been responsible for their construction and were located in the same building complex. The town merely rented the premises.-__-0000-__- However, this move of the town administration to Schachtweg in October 1938 already led to a substantial improvement, as Karl Raabe, who was responsible for finance and accounting, recalled: "-__-0001-__-it now also gave the outward impression that there was a real town administration here."-__-0002-__-

In June 1938, the provisional mayor Karl Heinrich Bock and his staff had been housed in a makeshift room in the old district court in Fallersleben before they were allocated three small rooms in the barracks of the town building office on Bullenberg. The main, police, welfare and tax offices were now united under one roof on Schachtweg. The residents' registration office, on the other hand, was housed in a wooden barrack on Fallerslebener Straße in the communal camp.-__-0003-__- City official Josef Wewer described the new premises in retrospect in 1968: "In the barrack I had a room for myself alone, followed by the mayor's anteroom -__-0004-__- and then the mayor's room, and adjoining his room there was a so-called-__-0005-__- meeting room. These rooms were at the front of the barracks, facing the shaft path. A corridor led vertically from them to the back to a second wing of the barracks, where the rooms for mail handling, the telephone exchange, the main office and the cash office were located. Later, we built on again at right angles and thus obtained rooms for the other departments that were developing -__-0006-__-."-__-0007-__-

Due to the continuously increasing number of inhabitants and the increasing tasks of the city administration, the building complex was constantly expanded. As early as January 1939, the existing premises were no longer sufficient, making a first extension necessary.-__-0008-__- But by April of the same year, the capacity of the rooms had already been exhausted again; the barracks were extended by two thirds of their original size.-__-0009-__- During the war, the rear barracks were damaged in a bombing raid on the "City of the KdF Car" in June 1944.-__-0010-__-

The subordinate treatment of the city administration by the management of the Volkswagen factory and the DAF city construction office reflects the balance of power in the "city of the KdF car", as the DAF, which was responsible for the construction of the factory and the city, initially believed it could do without the establishment of a functioning administration. This can also be seen at the personnel level: the provisional mayor Bock, a member of the NSDAP since May 1933 and in office since July 1, 1938, was relieved of his duties on December 15, 1938 after a conflict with Peter Koller, the head of the town planning office.-__-0000-__- He was succeeded by Werner Steinecke, a DAF confidant, which was intended to prevent such disputes in the future.

The lawyer Steinecke, 31 years old at the time, had already joined the NSDAP in 1926, was a member of the SA and had been legal and municipal advisor to the trust company for the economic enterprises of the DAF (TWU) since October 1938.-__-0000-__- In any case, the Aller-Zeitung saw "all the prerequisites for the management of a public utility -__-0001-__- that arose from National Socialist initiative and was to be administered in a National Socialist -__-0002-__- spirit" in the intertwining of the city administration and the DAF, and stated accordingly: "This personal union ensures that the administrative work in building up the city of the KdF-Wagen is carried out in the closest possible connection with the Reich leadership of the German Labor Front."-__-0003-__- Steinecke acted from December 15, 1938, initially as honorary mayor, and since August 1942 as full-time mayor of the "City of the KdF-Wagen".-__-0004-__-

-__-0005-__- Karl Heinrich Bock, growth from wild roots. When Wolfsburg was founded in 1938: Clash between political technocracy and internal administration. Cologne 1982, p. 39f.
-__-0006-__- StadtA WOB, EB 5, Interview with Karl Raabe from May 16, 1968, p. 4.
-__-0007-__- Ingo Sielaff, "Musterstadt", Barackenstadt, Wohnstadt, Großstadt. The contribution of the city administration to the development of the city of Wolfsburg. Wolfsburg 1995, pp. 13-15.
-__-0008-__- StadtA WOB, EB 4, Interview with Josef Wewer from May 22, 1968, p. 5.
-__-0009-__- "Stroll through the Volkswagen plant community camp", in: Aller-Zeitung of January 27, 1939.
-__-0010-__- "Who could have counted them? - Thousands of Easter excursionists visited the Volkswagen plant", in: Aller-Zeitung of April 11, 1939.
-__-0011-__- StadtA WOB, EB 4, Interview with Josef Wewer from May 22, 1968, p. 5.
-__-0012-__- Ibid. Wewer refers several times during the interview to conflicts with Koller and the employees of the Stadtbaubüro.
-__-0013-__- The information according to Günter Riederer, "Wolfsburg", in: Brage Bei der Wieden/Henning Stein-führer (eds.), Amt und Verantwortung. Local self-government in the sphere of influence of the Braunschweig landscape. Brunswick 2015, pp. 539-571, here pp. 557f.
-__-0014-__- "Administrative problems in the city of the KdF-Wagen", in: Aller Zeitung of January 7, 1939.
-__-0015-__- "Volkswagenstadt got its mayor. Mayor Pg. Steinicke was inaugurated", in: Aller Zeitung of August 1-2, 1942.