Galicia District

Location of the District of Galicia within the General Government (shown hatched)

District Galizien (1941-1944) usually denotes an area of the Soviet Union occupied by the German Reich during the Second World War , but not incorporated into the Reich territory . The area belonged to the Republic of Poland until 1939 and was initially annexed by the Soviet Union after September 17, 1939 due to the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact and occupied by the German Reich from June 1941 after the German attack on the Soviet Union . As a CdZ area, it became part of the General Government . The district of Galicia was formed analogously to the districts of Krakow , Lublin , Radom and Warsaw that already existed in the General Government and was officially established on August 1, 1941.

With the incorporation of the new district of Galicia , the Eastern Railway District Directorate for Galicia was established. This took over the route network from the main railway directorate in Kiev on December 1, 1941 .

District Administration

The Governor of the District of Galicia:
- Karl Lasch : August 1, 1941–6. January 1942
- SS Brigade Leader Otto Wächter : January 22, 1942–1944
- Office: Lviv
The head of office:
- Government Councilor Ludwig Losacker
- Josef Brandl (provisional from 1944)

The SS and Police Leader:
- Friedrich Katzmann
- Theobald Thier
- Christoph Diehm
- Office: Lviv

Commander of the Ordnungspolizei:

Commander of the gendarmerie:
- Lieutenant Colonel of the Gendarmerie Franz Gansinger

Commanders of the Security Police and the SD:
- Helmut Tanzmann
- Josef Witiska

Offices and departments correspond to the structure of the government of the Generalgouvernement.

City and district chiefs in the district of Galicia

City or district main team	Term of office	City or district chief
Brzeżany	August 1941 to February 8, 1943 February 1943 to July 20, 1944	Hans-Adolf Asbach Werner Becker
Czortków	August 1, 1941 to April 20, 1942 April 20, 1942 to February 1944	Gerhard Littschwager Hans Kujath
Drohobycz	August 1, 1941 to June 17, 1942 June 1942 to July / August 1944	Eduard Jedamzik Hermann Görgens
Horodenka	August 1941 to April 1, 1942	Johann Hack
Kalusch / Kałusz	End of August 1941 to March 20, 1942 March 21, 1942 to July 31, 1943	Friedrich Gercke Karl-Hans Broschegg
Kamionka Strumiłowa	August 10, 1941 to the end of December 1942 January 1, 1943 to July 1944	Wilhelm Rebay von Ehrenwiesen Joachim Nehring
Kolomyja / Kolomea	August 1, 1941 to June / July 1942, mid-1942 to August 1943 , August 1943 to March 1944	Claus Peter Volkmann Herbert Gorgon Bernhard von Trotha
Lviv country	October 1, 1941 to January 1942 1941/42 from late 1942 to February / March 1943 temporary	Berthold Pütter Otto Bauer Joachim Freiherr von der Leyen Werner Becker
Lviv-Grodek	September 15, 1941 to January 1942 January 16, 1942 to March 1942	Wilhelm Stockheck Berthold Pütter
Rawa-ruska	August 1941 to February 1942 March 1942 to July 24, 1944	Hans-Walter Zinser Gerhard Hager
Sambor	August 15, 1941 to March 1942 March 1942 to October 1, 1942 October 1942 to the end of July 1943	Mogens by Harbou Hans-Walter Zinser Karl-Georg Emmrich
Stanisławów / Stanislau	August 7, 1941 to September 23, 1944	Gustav Albrecht
Stryj	August 1941 to July 1944	Viktor von Dewitz
Tarnopoly	October 1, 1941 to the end of February 1942 , April 1942 to April 1944	Gerhard Hager Mogens from Harbou
Złoczów	August 1941 to January 1943 January 6, 1943 until the evacuation	Hans Mann Otto Wendt
Lviv (city)	August 1941 to February 1942 February 5, 1942 until eviction	Hans Kujath Egon Höller (Deputy: Wilhelm Hallbauer )

↑ Dissolved on April 1, 1942.
↑ dissolved in 1943.
↑ Disbanded in March 1942.

literature

Dieter Pohl : National Socialist Persecution of Jews in East Galicia, 1941–1944. Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56233-9 .
Thomas Sandkühler: Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz 1941–1944 . Dietz successor, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-5022-9

Web links

Galicia District

Individual evidence

^ Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. (= Contributions to the History of the 20th Century , Volume 9), Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0477-2 , pp. 450f.

[2] Dissolved on April 1, 1942.

[3] ssolved in 1943.

[4] Disbanded in March 1942.

[1] Markus Roth: Herrenmenschen. The German District Chiefs in Occupied Poland - Career Paths, Rule Practice and Post-History. (= Contributions to the History of the 20th Century , Volume 9), Wallstein, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8353-0477-2 , pp. 450f.