Asch district

Administrative map of the Reichsgau Sudetenland

District authorities of the Kingdom of Bohemia (1880)

The German district of Asch existed between 1938 and 1945 in the Reichsgau Sudetenland . It included on January 1, 1945

the city of Asch ,
the market Roßbach and
20 more parishes.

The area of the district of Asch had 44,998 inhabitants on December 1, 1930 and 44,690 on May 17, 1939. On May 22, 1947, after the majority of the German population had been expelled , only 19,582 residents were counted.

Administrative history

Czechoslovakia / German occupation

Around 1868 the Kingdom of Bohemia was reorganized into 89 and later 104 district authorities. On the map from 1880, the district administration with its seat in Asch is noted with an area of 154 km² and a population of 32,000. In the Ottův slovník naučný 1893 there are 143.86 km² 34,264 inhabitants.

From October 31, 1918 to the Munich Agreement of September 29, 1938, the political district of Aš belonged to Czechoslovakia .

In the period from October 1st to October 10th, 1938, German troops occupied this area. The political district of Aš from then on bore the former German-Austrian name Asch . It included the judicial district of Asch . Since November 20, 1938, the political district of Asch has been known as the “district”. Until that day he was subordinate to the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch , as head of the military administration.

German Empire

On November 21, 1938, the area of the district of Asch was formally incorporated into the German Reich and became part of the administrative district of the Sudeten German Territories under Reich Commissioner Konrad Henlein . The city of Asch became the seat of the district administration .

From April 15, 1939, the law on the structure of the administration in the Reichsgau Sudetenland (Sudetengaugesetz) came into force . Then the district of Asch came to the Reichsgau Sudetenland and was assigned to the new administrative district of Eger with the seat of the district president in Karlsbad .

On May 1, 1939, the partially cut districts in the Sudetenland were reorganized. Thereafter, the district of Asch was retained within its previous boundaries. It remained in this state until the end of World War II. From 1945 the area belonged to Czechoslovakia until its dissolution. Today it is part of the Czech Republic .

District administrators

1938–1939: Kurt Monglowsky
1939–1945: Richard Manner

Local constitution

On the day before the formal incorporation into the German Reich, namely on November 20, 1938, all municipalities were subject to the German municipal code of January 30, 1935, which provided for the implementation of the Führer principle at the municipal level. From then on, the terms customary in the previous territory of the Reich were used, namely instead:

Local parish: Municipality,
Market town: market,
Municipality: City,
Political district: District.

Place names

The previous place names continued to apply, namely in the German-Austrian version from 1918.

cities and communes

today part of Asch

Web links

Asch district administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 25, 2013.

Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Asch district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

Individual evidence