• 4.8.1 Own colonial administration; at local level in German 1814-1871.
• 4.8.2 Administrative structure 1871 - 1917
• 4.8.3 Romanian administration 1918-1940
• 4.8.4 Soviet Administration July - October 1940

In the first decades there was a separate colonial administration with the Welfare Committee at the top (the official language at the local level was German). This was a combination of almost pure self-administration at the lower level and a special administration above it.
From 1871, the colonists were placed under the general Russian administration (official language Russian). The protecting and supporting institution ceased to exist.

After the annexation of Bessarabia to Romania, the administration was carried out according to Romanian laws (official language Romanian). With the introduction of the Romanian administration, the last vestige of self-administration of the German communities, which had been saved over 1871, was lost. had been saved.

Finally, in 1940, until resettlement, the German villages of Bessarabia were subject to a few months of Soviet administration, which, in the process of being established, did not yet function properly. However, the Bessarabian Germans felt the sometimes draconian measures of the occupying forces.