Like every nation­al park, at least in the Ger­man-speak­ing area, also has one in the Low­er Oder Val­ley Nation­al Park Nation­al Park Admin­is­tra­tion. It is housed in the for­mer ser­vants’ house of the Criewen manor com­plex, which was bare­ly destroyed dur­ing the war Nature watch, which is the orga­ni­za­tion­al struc­ture of the pub­lic law foun­da­tion Bran­den­burg Nature Con­ser­va­tion Fund sub­or­di­nate to, in the neigh­bor­ing for­mer pigsty. The vil­lage com­mu­ni­ty cen­ter is locat­ed in the beau­ti­ful­ly ren­o­vat­ed for­mer gra­nary, and the one worth see­ing in the for­mer sheep­fold Vis­i­tor infor­ma­tion cen­ter. In the GDR era, an ugly gym­na­si­um was built in a vacant lot, com­plete­ly out of place. In a suc­cess­ful joint effort between the munic­i­pal­i­ty of Criewen, the city of Schwedt and the Nation­al Park Foun­da­tion Unteres Oder­tal, this was demol­ished and a new sports field with a mod­ern gym was built instead on the out­skirts. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, oth­er build­ings were lost in the war and can only be seen in their foun­da­tions, such as the for­mer cat­tle barn. Quite well pre­served and pri­vate­ly inhab­it­ed, how­ev­er, is on the edge of the Peter-Joseph Lenné Parks designed the administrator’s house and also not far away the Vor­w­erk, also with an administrator’s house for the agri­cul­tur­al sector.

The Nation­al Park Admin­is­tra­tion, orig­i­nal­ly attached to the State Envi­ron­ment Agency in the Nature Con­ser­va­tion Depart­ment, is now direct­ly part of the Bran­den­burg Nature Con­ser­va­tion Depart­ment Min­istry of Agri­cul­ture, Envi­ron­ment and Cli­mate Pro­tec­tion (MLUK). How­ev­er, the Nation­al Park Admin­is­tra­tion is not an office, i.e. an author­i­ty in the sense of admin­is­tra­tive law. The dis­trict admin­is­tra­tors from the affect­ed dis­tricts of Barn­im and Uck­er­mark pre­vent­ed that at the time. The two dis­trict admin­is­tra­tions func­tion as an author­i­ty in the legal sense, in each case for their area, while the nation­al park admin­is­tra­tion pro­vides support.

In addi­tion to the state-orga­nized and man­aged nature con­ser­va­tion (nation­al park man­age­ment, nature watch), four pri­vate law orga­ni­za­tions have been formed since Ger­man reuni­fi­ca­tion — and this is like­ly to be unique, at least in the Ger­man-speak­ing area — which are high­ly pro­fes­sion­al but also strong­ly sup­port­ed by vol­un­tary com­mit­ment, have tak­en on impor­tant tasks in nature con­ser­va­tion, land­scape main­te­nance and agri­cul­ture, accord­ing to the 1992 found­ed Asso­ci­a­tion of Friends of the Ger­man-Pol­ish Euro­pean Nation­al Park Low­er Oder Val­ley e.V. (Nation­al Park Asso­ci­a­tion), which was found­ed in 1995 Low­er Oder Val­ley Nation­al Park Foun­da­tion, the Inter­na­tion­al Park Low­er Oder Val­ley GmbH and the Öko Agrar GmbH Low­er Oder Val­ley. These four orga­ni­za­tions, which are strong­ly sup­port­ed by civic engage­ment and want to involve the local peo­ple in the nation­al park as active part­ners, work close­ly with one anoth­er in order to avoid unnec­es­sary fric­tion loss­es and envi­ous oppo­si­tion to one another.

There is also a state sup­port asso­ci­a­tion Nation­al Park Low­er Oder Val­ley e.V., Chair­man is the may­or of Schwedt, Jür­gen Polzehl, deputy is the head of the nation­al park admin­is­tra­tion, Dirk Tre­ichel. The main pur­pose of the asso­ci­a­tion is to gen­er­ate finan­cial resources, for exam­ple from the munic­i­pal util­i­ties, in order to be able to car­ry out var­i­ous types of events in the nation­al park area.