District of Gera

This article deals with the former district of Gera (1922–1952) and its predecessors. For the former Gera-Land district in the Gera district (1952–1990) and the Gera district in Thuringia from 1990 to 1994, see Gera-Land district

Basic data
Inventory period	District Office 1852–1919 District Association 1919–1922 District 1922–1952
Administrative headquarters	Gera
surface	752.80 km² (1939)
Residents	95,301 (1939)
Population density	127 inhabitants / km² (1939)
Communities	213 (1939)
Location of the Gera district in Thuringia in 1922

The district of Gera was a district in Thuringia from 1922 to 1952 . The district seat was in the city of Gera , which remained independent during this time. Before 1922 was in the Republic of Reuss and in Thuringia the Bezirksverband Gera and before 1919 in the Principality younger Reuss line the district office Gera .

history

In the Principality of Reuss Younger Line, the three district offices of Gera, Schleiz and Ebersdorf were established in 1852 . In 1871 the Schleiz District Office was dissolved; the Hohenleuben and Triebes exclaves were added to the Gera district office. In 1910 the district office of Gera had an area of ​​283 km². At its head was a district administrator. A district committee had existed since 1866. This consisted of the district administrator, a representative of the princely chamber, the mayors of the cities of the district and 13 elected members. One of these members was elected by the owners of land with a tax value of at least 500 units, another by those citizens who paid at least 3,000 marks in income tax. The other members were elected by the mayor. Its duties were regulated in the law of April 30, 1866.

On April 17, 1919, Reuss younger line merged with Reuss older line to form the People's State of Reuss. The District Office Gera became the District Association of Gera , but reduced to include the communities of Göttendorf , Hohenleuben , Langenwetzendorf , Neuärgerniß , Niederböhmersdorf , Pöllwitz , Triebes and Weißendorf , which came to the District Association of Greiz .

After the new state of Thuringia was founded in 1920, a comprehensive regional reform took place in 1922. The city of Gera, into which the communities Ernsee , Frankenthal , Scheubengrobsdorf and Windischenbernsdorf were also incorporated, has since formed its own urban district. The Russian part of the Seifartsdorf community became part of the new Jena-Roda district . A new district of Gera was formed from the following components:

• The remaining core area of ​​the Gera district association
• The municipality of Hohenölsen from the dissolved Greiz district association ( Reuss older line until 1920 )
• Most of the disbanded administrative district Neustadt an der Orla with the cities Auma , Münchenbernsdorf , Neustadt an der Orla , Triptis and Weida (until 1920 Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach )
• The south-western part of the dissolved Ronneburg District Office with the city of Ronneburg (until 1920 Saxony-Altenburg )
• The Altenburg parts of the municipalities of Kraftsdorf and Rüdersdorf and the municipality of Oberndorf from the Roda District Office (until 1920 Sachsen-Altenburg)

Gera became the seat of the district administration. Cities in the district were Auma, Neustadt an der Orla, Triptis, Weida, Bad Köstritz , Münchenbernsdorf , Langenberg ( 1933 municipal law, incorporated into Gera in 1950 ) and Ronneburg, plus 205 other municipalities (as of 1939).

The community Selka moved from the Altenburg district to the Gera district on January 1, 1927 , as did the Vollmershain community on October 1, 1927. As part of an area swap with Saxony , the Saxon parts of the communities Grobsdorf , Hilbersdorf and Lengefeld changed on April 1, 1928 and Rückersdorf as well as the communities Liebschwitz , Lietzsch , Loitzsch , Niebra , Pösneck and Taubenpreskel from the Zwickau administrative authority in the Gera district. On August 1, 1946, the Selka community returned to the Altenburg district.

During the first district reform in the GDR on July 1, 1950, the district boundaries were changed:

• The city of Langenberg and the municipalities of Dürrenebersdorf , Kaimberg , Langengrobsdorf , Liebschwitz , Lietzsch , Poris-Lengefeld , Röppisch , Roschütz , Taubenpreskel , Zeulsdorf and Zschippern left the district and were incorporated into the city of Gera.
• The municipality of Wittchendorf moved to the district of Greiz .
• The communities Reichardtsdorf and St. Gangloff came from the district of Stadtroda to the district of Gera.

During the administrative reform of 1952 in the GDR, the district of Gera was dissolved:

• The southeast of the district with the cities of Neustadt an der Orla and Triptis came to the Pößneck district in the Gera district .
• The communities Beerwalde , Braunichswalde , Drosen , Gauern , Heukewalde , Jonaswalde , Löbichau , Lohma , Nischwitz , Paitzdorf , Posterstein , Reichstädt , Rückersdorf, Selka, Vogelgesang and Vollmershain came to the Schmölln district in the Leipzig district .
• The community of St. Gangloff came to the district of Stadtroda in the district of Gera .
• The communities Großpillingsdorf and Mannichswalde came to the Werdau district in the Chemnitz district .
• The city of Auma and the communities Forstwolfersdorf and Wiebelsdorf came to the Zeulenroda district in the Gera district.
• The remaining core area of ​​the district formed the district of Gera-Land in the district of Gera.

Today, the greater part of the former district area belongs to the Greiz district and a smaller part to the Saale-Orla district and the Altenburger Land district . The area that fell to the Werdau district in 1952 is now in the Zwickau district in Saxony .

Population development

In 1925 the district had 88,345 inhabitants on 731.89 km², in 1939 it was 95,301 on 752.80 km². In the first census after the end of the Second World War, the district counted 134,623 inhabitants on 749.59 km², in 1950 there were 113,841 inhabitants.

	District Office Gera		District of Gera
year	1900	1910	1925	1933	1939	1946	1950
Residents	99,594	110,578	88,345	94,825	95,301	134,623	113,841

District administrators

• 1837–1850 Haubold von Einsiedel
• 1896–1902 Heinrich Sturm
• 1924–1945 Fritz Jungherr

cities and communes

In 1939 the district of Gera comprised eight cities and 205 other municipalities:

Alsmannsdorf Auma , city Bad Köstritz , city Baldenhain Beerwalde Beiersdorf Bethenhausen Birkhausen Brahmenau Braunichswalde Braunsdorf Breitenhain Burgwitz Burkersdorf b. Weida Burkersdorf b. Neustadt Caaschwitz Caasen Collis Cretzschwitz Crimla Cronschwitz Döblitz Dorna Dreitzsch Droplets Dürrenebersdorf End contactor Forstwolfersdorf Frankenau Friessnitz Gurgling Enclosure Goats Geroda Eaten Gleina Gorlitzsch sheep presles Graefenbrück Grobsdorf Grochwitz Grand saga Grossbocka Großebersdorf Grossenstein Great Falcon Großpillingsdorf Greater Saara Großstechau Grüna Gütterlitz grove Harpersdorf Hartmannsdorf Haselbach

Hasla Hermsdorf Heukewalde Hilbersdorf Hirschfeld Hohenölsen Dog heads Jonaswalde Kaimberg Kaltenborn Crouch Kleina Kleinaga Kleinbernsdorf Kleinbocka Small falcon Small Saara Kleinstechau Koeckritz Köfeln Kopitzsch Basket feet Kospoda Köthnitz Power village Laasen Langenberg , city Langengrobsdorf Lausnitz Lederhose Lemnitz Lessen Letzendorf Leubsdorf Lichtenau Lichtenberg Love sweat Lietzsch Linda b. Weida Linda b. Neustadt Linden cross Löbichau Lohma Loitsch Mannichswalde Markersdorf Meilitz Mennsdorf Miesitz Mittelpöllnitz Moder joke Molbitz Mosen Mosquitos

Mühlsdorf Münchenbernsdorf , city Nauendorf Naulitz Negis New Orga Neundorf Neunhofen Neustadt an der Orla , city Niebra Niederndorf Niederpöllnitz Nischwitz Nöbdenitz Oberndorf Oberpöllnitz Oberröppisch Otticha Ottmannsdorf Paitzdorf Pfersdorf Pillingsdorf Pohlen Pohlitz Pölzig Poris-Lengefeld Pörsdorf Porstendorf Posneck Poster stone Quaschwitz Raitzhain Reichenbach Reichstädt Remorse Robes Rohna Ronneburg Röpsen Roschütz Rose village Rothenbach Rückersdorf Rudersdorf Rusitz Russdorf Sachsenroda Lubricating seat Schmirchau Schömberg Nice Schönborn Schüptitz Schwaara

Schwarzbach Seifersdorf Seligenstädt Selka Sirbis Söllmnitz Stanau Stone bridges b. Neustadt Stone bridges b. Bad Köstritz Steinsdorf Stolzenberg Strößwitz Struth Pigeon flesh Teichwitz Thränitz Tischendorf Tommelsdorf Pottery Traun Trebnitz Triptis , city Uhlersdorf Untendorf Unterröppisch Untitz Vitusberg Birdsong Vollmershain Juniper tree Waltersdorf Weida , city Weira Whitish World joke Wernsdorf Wetzdorf Wiebelsdorf Wittchendorf Wittchenstein Wöhlsdorf Wolfsgefärth Wish village / Elster Desert desert village Zedlitz Zeulsdorf Zossen Zschippach Zipper Zschorta Zwackau

The following municipalities were incorporated before 1939:

Bieblach , 1912 to Gera Birkigt , 1937 in Niederpöllnitz Cuba , 1897 to Lower House Debschwitz , 1912 to Gera Ernsee , 1922 to Gera Frankenthal , 1923 in Gera Groitschen , in 1937 in Brahmenau Ingramsdorf , 1937 on Drosen Leumnitz , 1919 to Gera Loitzsch , 1939 to Lichtenberg Lusan , 1919 to Gera Milbitz , 1919 to Gera

Gates , 1919 to Gera Rubitz , 1919 to Gera Scheubengrobsdorf , 1923 in Gera Stublach , 1922 to Langenberg Stübnitz , to Kraftsdorf in 1922 Thieschitz , 1919 in Gera Tinz , 1919 in Gera Lower house , 1919 in Gera Waaswitz , 1922 on Culm Windischenbernsdorf , 1923 in Gera Wüstfalke , 1919 to Kleinfalke Zwötzen , 1919 in Gera

literature

• Author collective: The district of Gera and its cities. On behalf of and with the participation of the district of Gera and its cities . German city publisher A. Seelemeyer, Dresden-Kötzschenbroda branch 1929, 132 pp.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. gera.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 22, 2009 . 
3. ^ Paul Schlotter: State and Administrative Law of the Principality of Reuss Older and Younger Line, 1909, pp. 50–53
4. ^ Law on the unification of the two Free States of Reuss of April 4, 1919 . In: Collection of laws for both Free States of Reuss . tape 1919 , no. 5 . Greiz 1919, p. 27 ff . ( Digitized version ).
5. ↑ ^{a b} gov.genealogy.net: District of Gera
6. ^ Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874-1945
7. ↑ gov.genealogy.net: Selka
8. ↑ gov.genealogy.net: Vollmershain
9. ^ Twelfth ordinance on the subdivision of the state of Thuringia
10. ↑ 1. Ordinance on the implementation of the law amending the district and municipal boundaries in the state of Thuringia of April 26, 1950
11. ^ Supplement to the 1st regulation
12. ↑ Law on the further democratization of the structure and functioning of state organs in the state of Thuringia of July 25, 1952
13. ↑ 1946 census