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The Posen district in South Prussia

Poznan County, Poznan Province

The district of Posen existed from 1793 to 1807 in the Prussian province of South Prussia and from 1815 to 1887 in the south of the Prussian province of Posen . The former district area is now essentially part of the Poznański powiat in the Polish Greater Poland Voivodeship .

The district of Poznan was also a German administrative unit in occupied Poland (1939–1945) during the Second World War .

history

After the Third Partition of Poland from 1793 to 1807, the area around the western Polish city of Posen belonged to the Posen district in the Prussian province of South Prussia. Through the Peace of Tilsit the area came to the Duchy of Warsaw in 1807 and now formed a powiat of the Posen prefecture. After the Congress of Vienna on May 15, 1815, the district fell again to the Kingdom of Prussia and became part of the Poznan administrative district of the Poznan Province.

During the Prussian administrative reforms , a district reform was carried out in the Posen administrative district on January 1, 1818, during which the Posen district was significantly reduced. The western part of the district became the new Buk district . The district town and seat of the district office was the city of Posen, which remained independent.

As part of the Posen Province, the Posen District became part of the newly founded German Empire on January 18, 1871 , against which the Polish MPs protested in the new Reichstag on April 1, 1871.

On October 1, 1887, the district was dissolved and divided into the two new districts Posen-West and Posen-East .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1818	35.001
1839	42,927
1871	56,753

About 74% of the inhabitants of the district were Poles , 25% Germans and 1% Jews .

politics

District administrators

1793–1800 Franz von Krzycki00

1800–1802 August von Brause00

1803– 000000Stephan Alexander von Zychlinski

1818–1824 Michael von Neymann00

1831–1834 by Zawadzki00

1834–1841 by Hohberg00

1841–1848 Julius von Minutoli (1804–1860)00

1849–1862 Hans Friedrich Otto von Benekendorff and von Hindenburg00

1862–1870 Carl Gustav Wocke00

1870–1875 Christian Julius von Massenbach (1832–1904)00

1875–1887 Emil von Tempelhoff (1840–1908)00

elections

The Posen District together with the independent city of Posen formed the Posen 1 Reichstag constituency . The constituency was won by candidates from the Polish parliamentary group in all elections to the Reichstag between 1871 and 1887 :

1871 Władysław Niegolewski00
187400 Władysław Niegolewski
187700 Hippolytus of Turno
187800 Hippolytus von Turno
188100 Hippolytus von Turno
1884 Stephan Cegielski00
188700 Stephan Cegielski

Municipal structure

The two cities Schwersenz and Stenschewo belonged to the Posen district . The rural communities and manor districts were initially grouped into (smaller) Woyt districts (Polish “wójt” = German “Vogt”) and later in larger police districts.

Communities

In 1871 the following communities belonged to the district:

Old Demantschewo
Babki
Baranowo
Barcinek
Bendlewo
Bolechowko
Bolechowo
Bytkowo
Ceradz Koscielny
Cerek jokes
Chludowo
Chmielnik
Chomencice
Choynitz
Commenderie
Czapury
Czerwonak village
Czerwonak Hauland
Daschewitz II
Dembno village
Dembno colony
Dembogora
Dembsen
Dombrowo
Dopiewitz
Dopiewo
Drogohin
Edmundsau
Fabianowo
Garashevo
Garby
Glinienko
Glowno, village
Glowno, colony
Gluchowo
Gluschin
Golentschewo
Goluski
Gora
Gortatowo
Great Starolenka
Gruchin
Gurchin
hammer
Heinrichsfelde
Janikowo
Yashin
Jersitz
Jeziorki
Junikovo
Kitschin
Little Starolenka
Kliny
Kobelnitz
Kobylepole
Kobylnik
Kokoszczyn
Komornik
Konarzewo
Kotowo
Kozieglowy
Kromplewo
Krushevnia
Krzesinki
Krzesini
Krzyschkowo
Krzyzownik
Lagiewnik
Lassek
Jokes
Lentschitz
Lisowki
Lodz
Lowenchin
Luban
Lusovko
Lussowo
times
Marlewo
Mechowo
Mienkowo
Minikowo
Miroslawski
Modrze
Mrowino
Napachanie
Naramowitz
Naramowitz Hauland
New Demantschewo
Neudorf Hauland
Neudorf-Neumühle
Oberwilda
Obschitza
Palendzie
Pamiontkowo
Pavlovitz
Piekary
Plewisk
Podlozinki
Podarzewo
Polytics
Premnitz
Przybroda
Psarskie
Rabowitz
Radoyevo
Rattay
Rogierowko
Rosnowo Hauland
Rumianek
Sady
Saint Lazarus
Sapowitz
Schwersenz, village
Schwersenz , city
Skorzencin
Skorzewo
Slupia
Sobiesiernie
Sobotta
Splawie
Srocko
Starzyn
Stenschewo , city
Strykowo
Strzeschyno
Suchylas
Swadzim
Swiertschewo
Sypniewo
Tarnowo
Tomitze
Chelino
Chebav
Chuskotovo
Tutschno
Twardowo
Unterwilda
Valerianowo
Wientzkowitz
Winiary
Wiorek
Really
Wiry
Witobel
Vrontschin
Vysogotovo
Zabikowo
Zakrzewo Hauland
Zalasewo
Zamylovo
Zaparcin
Zegrze
Zelinitz
Zlotkowo
Zlotnik

The district of Poznan in occupied Poland (1939–1945)

Administrative districts and counties in the Reichsgau Wartheland

history

During the Second World War , the German occupation authorities formed the district of Posen in occupied Poland . The annexation of the area by the German Reich on October 26, 1939 , as a unilateral act of violence, was ineffective under international law. The German occupying power murdered the Jewish population and expelled a large part of the Polish population. The newly settled Germans fled again towards the end of the German occupation. The German occupation ended with the invasion of the Red Army in January 1945.

Land Commissioner

1939 Hans Gehrels (1904–1998)-999900

District administrators

1939–1943 Hans Gehrels00

1943–1945 Harry Siegmund (1910–2009) ( substitute )00

Municipal structure

During the German occupation in World War II , only Schwersenz received city rights in 1943 according to the German municipal code of 1935, the other municipalities were grouped together in administrative districts .

literature

Gustav Neumann : Geography of the Prussian State . 2nd edition, Volume 2, Berlin 1874, pp. 150-151, item 11.
Royal Statistical Bureau: The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population. Edited and compiled from the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. Part IV: The Province of Posen , Berlin 1874, pp. 58-69 ( e-copy, pp. 65-76 ).
ACA Friedrich: Historical-geographical representation of old and new Poland . Berlin 1839, pp. 568-570.
Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : The state forces of the Prussian monarchy under Friedrich Wilhelm III . Volume 2, part 1, Berlin 1828, p. 104, number XIII.
M. Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Posen Ost. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006)
M. Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Posen West district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006)

Web links

Commons : Circle Poses - collection of images, videos and audio files

District of Poznan administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 17, 2013.

Individual evidence

↑ Historical, statistical, topographical description of South Prussia, 1798
↑ Walther Hubatsch (ed.): Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945. Johann Gottfried Herder Institute, Marburg / Lahn; Volume 2, Part 1: Province of Poznan. edited by Dieter Stüttgen, 1975, ISBN 3-87969-109-6
↑ ACA Friederich: Historical-geographical representation of old and new Poland . Stuhrsche Buchhandlung, Berlin ( digitized version [accessed on August 8, 2018]).
↑ Ferdinand Hirt: The Weichselzopf. Represented according to statistical and physiological relationships . 1843 ( digitized ).
↑ ^a ^b The municipalities and manors of the Posen Province and their population in 1871
↑ 1890 census results for the Posen East and Posen West districts as a reference point
↑ ^a ^b ^c Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 .
↑ Historical Society for the Province of Posen (Ed.): Documents and files on the history of the organization of South Prussia . S. 188 ( digitized version ).

[1] Historical, statistical, topographical description of South Prussia, 1798

[huba-2] Walther Hubatsch (ed.): Outline of German administrative history 1815-1945. Johann Gottfried Herder Institute, Marburg / Lahn; Volume 2, Part 1: Province of Poznan. edited by Dieter Stüttgen, 1975, ISBN 3-87969-109-6

[3] ACA Friederich: Historical-geographical representation of old and new Poland . Stuhrsche Buchhandlung, Berlin ( digitized version [accessed on August 8, 2018]).

[4] Ferdinand Hirt: The Weichselzopf. Represented according to statistical and physiological relationships . 1843 ( digitized ).

[g1871-5] The municipalities and manors of the Posen Province and their population in 1871

[6] 1890 census results for the Posen East and Posen West districts as a reference point

[:0-7] Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 .

[8] Historical Society for the Province of Posen (Ed.): Documents and files on the history of the organization of South Prussia . S. 188 ( digitized version ).