Katowice County

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Katowice and Environs, 1905

The district of Katowitz (until 1899 district of Katowice) was a Prussian district in Upper Silesia from 1873 to 1922 . Its district capital was the city of Katowice , which had formed its own urban district since 1899 . The former district area is now part of the Polish Silesian Voivodeship . The district of Katowice was also a German administrative unit in occupied Poland during the Second World War (1939–1945) .

Administrative history

The district of Katowice was established in 1873 from the southeastern part of the district of Beuthen , which had become too large for the standards of the time due to the strong increase in the population in the Upper Silesian industrial area . He belonged to the administrative district of Opole in the Prussian province of Silesia . On April 1, 1899, the city of Katowice left the district and formed its own urban district. This changed the name of the district of Katowice in the district of Katowice.

In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 44.4% of the voters in the district of Katowice voted to remain with Germany and 55.6% for a cession to Poland. As a result of the subsequent resolutions of the Paris Ambassadors Conference , the entire circle fell to Poland in June 1922 .

Population development

year Residents source
1885 105.358
1900 151.660
1910 216,807

In the 1910 census, 65% of the residents of the district of Katowice described themselves as purely Polish -speaking and 30% as purely German-speaking . In the 1900 census, 94% of the population were Catholic and 5% Protestant .

District administrators

1873–1877 Hans Hermann von Berlepsch (1843–1926)00
1877-1883 00Paul Grundmann
1883–1897 Ernst Holtz (1854–1935)00
1897–1916 00Ernst Eugen Gerlach
1916–1922 Gottfried Schwendy (1869–1958)00

Communities

The following communities belonged to the district of Katowice around 1900:

The rural community of Josephsdorf was incorporated into Domb in 1894 and the rural community of Radoschau to Kochlowitz before 1908. Klein Dombrowka was renamed Eichenau in 1905 , Bykowine in Friedrichsdorf in 1907 and Brzezinka in Birkental in 1906 .

Personalities

  • Michael Jary (born September 24, 1906 in Laurahütte, † July 12, 1988 in Munich), German composer

The district of Katowice in occupied Poland

history

As part of the attack on Poland , the Polish district of Katowice was occupied by the Wehrmacht on September 3, 1939 , and on November 26, 1939, part of the newly formed Katowice administrative district in the province of Silesia, under the name of Katowice district. On November 20, 1939, the district of Kattowitz received the communities Panewnik and Petrowitz from the district of Pleß . On January 18, 1941, the province of Silesia was dissolved and the new province of Upper Silesia was formed from the previous administrative districts of Katowice and Opole . In January 1945, the district became Polish again after being captured by the Red Army .

District administrators

1939 -9999: Erich Keßler
1939–1943: Philipp Karl Heimann (1881–1962)
1943–1944: Volkmar Hopf (1906–1997) ( substitute )
1944–1945: Kriele

Local constitution

The cities of Laurahütte and Myslowitz as well as all other municipalities in the district were subordinated in three phases between February and September 1940 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. The district law applicable in the incorporated eastern areas was valid for the entire district area .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Silesia 1885
  2. ↑ a b c www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
  3. ↑ Jakob Spett: Nationality map of the eastern provinces of the German Empire based on the results of the official census of 1910 designed by Ing.Jakob Spett . Justus Perthes, January 1, 1910 ( bibliotekacyfrowa.pl [accessed March 14, 2017]). , see also Silesia # The ethnolinguistic structure of Upper Silesia (1819–1910)
  4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. sch_kattowitz.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  5. ↑ District of Katowice administrative history and district list on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of July 27, 2013.