CdZ area Lower Styria
The CdZ area Lower Styria was an administrative unit existing between 1941 and 1945 in the German- occupied part of Yugoslavia ( Banschaft Drau ), which until the end of the First World War had belonged as Lower Styria to the Crown Land of Styria Austria-Hungary . The area was subordinate to a German chief of civil administration (CdZ) and was intended for later integration into the German Empire .
history
After the start of the German Balkan campaign on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia on April 6, 1941, northeastern Slovenia was subordinated to the German "Chief of Civil Administration in Lower Styria". The administrative seat was in Marburg (Slovene. Maribor ). Northwestern Slovenia became the CdZ area of Carinthia and Carniola .
On April 14, 1941, the Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of the NSDAP for the Gau Styria, Sigfried Uiberreither , was appointed head of civil administration . This moved the seat of the civil administration to Graz with effect from November 15, 1941 .
On May 13, 1941, a German-Croatian border treaty was signed in Zagreb , which defined the border between the CdZ area of Lower Styria and the independent state of Croatia .
June 13, 1941 southeast of were the previous CdZ area, the Yugoslav hitherto Sankt Anna am Aigen located communities Guizenhof / Ocinje , Sinnersdorf / Kramarovci , Füchselsdorf / Fikšinci and the predominantly German-speaking part of the community Serdica Rotenberg / Rdeči breg in Prekmurje / Übermurgebiet from the district administration Murska Sobota subordinated to the civil administration and included in the German passport, customs and foreign exchange border.
The originally planned complete incorporation of Lower Styria into the German Empire was not completed until the end of the war.
Since the end of the Second World War , the area of Lower Styria belonged again to Yugoslavia and is now part of the independent Slovenia.
Administrative division
At first, the Yugoslav division into district authorities and district-free cities remained, which were administered by German political commissioners.
On June 15, 1941, according to German law, the new urban district of Marburg was formed from the previous district-free city of Marburg and expanded through generous incorporations at the expense of the district administration "Marburg right bank of the Drau".
After a regional reform in the whole of Lower Styria , this was divided into one urban district and six districts from July 1, 1941, according to the usual division in the German Reich . As was common from the end of the 19th century to 1918, Marburg was given the addition of "an der Drau " (to distinguish it from Marburg an der Lahn ).
Since April 14, 1943, all municipalities in Lower Styria have been subject to the German municipal code of January 30, 1935, which was valid in the Altreich and provided for the implementation of the Führer principle at the municipality level.
Place names
Initially, the Austrian place names valid until 1918 in the German version were provisional. Later other place names were Germanized.
Districts in the CdZ area Lower Styria 1945
Urban district
Counties
- Cilli
- Marburg on the Drau
- Oberradkersburg
- Pettau
- Ran
- Trifail