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Line 344: === Postwar time === [[File:MI - Rathaus - Blickachse Dom.jpg\|thumb\|Postwar reconstructed Cathedral with new town hall on the left side, seen from the medieval arch of the old town hall]] In the early post-war time the Minden region became aan important part of the [[British Occupation Zone]]. The British Military Government took its main location in Bad Oeynhausen before it moved to Berlin. The headquarter of the [[British Army of the Rhine\|British Forces]] remained there until 1954. All the German Wehrmacht barracks in Minden were taken by the British Army, as well as the former exercise area on Minderheide, where the St George's barracks were built in the following years, and on a nearby location the Kingsley barracks.<ref>{{cite web \|title=Minden \|url=https://www.baor-locations.org/minden.aspx.html \|website=www.baor-locations.org \|access-date=13 February 2022}}</ref> 466 houses were confiscated in 1945. As immediate measure, the British Army set up an auxiliary bridge ("Francis bridge"), that was in use until the restoring of the regular bridge in 1947.{{sfn\|Nordsiek \|1979\|p=106}}<ref name="Pegelschlange">{{cite web \|title=Pegelschlange \|url=https://www.pegelschlange.eu/ \|website=www.pegelschlange.eu \|access-date=13 March 2022}} (with photo of the Francis bridge 1945)</ref> The {{lang\|de\|Wirtschaftsrat für die britische Besatzungszone}} ("Economic Council for the British Occupation Zone") was founded in Minden on 11 March 1946 for reactivation of German economic power and supervised the work of the {{lang\|de\|Zentralamt für Wirtschaft}} ("Central Office for Economy") at the same place. The {{lang\|de\|Zentralamt}} under its head ''Viktor Agartz'' fought against the policy of industrial dismantling and tried to reorganize the economy with perspectives of [[planned economy]].<ref>{{cite journal \|last1=Kossack \|first1=Kristan \|title=Viktor Agartz und das "Zentralamt für Wirtschaft" in Minden \|journal=Mitteilungen des Mindener Geschichtsvereins \|date=1993 \|volume=65 \|pages=95–119 \|url=https://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/periodical/titleinfo/4627962 \|access-date=17 February 2022}}</ref> After the partial conjunction of the American and British Occupation Zones in 1947 to the [[Bizone]], the [[Bizonal Economic Council]] continued the activities of the Minden {{lang\|de\|Wirtschaftsrat}} in [[Frankfurt]] in the American occupation zone, where with [[Ludwig Erhard]] the course was changed to a [[market economy]].

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