Bendsburg district

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The district of Bendsburg was a district in occupied Poland and was created after the German occupation of Poland in 1939 by converting the Polish powiat Będziński . The German district of Bendsburg , previously Będzin / Bandin, existed until the beginning of 1945. On January 1st, 1945 it comprised:

  • 3 cities administered according to the German municipal code of January 30, 1935,
  • as well as 10 administrative districts with 63 municipalities

with (1931) a total of 231,581 inhabitants.

Administrative history

Poland

At the beginning of the Second World War , the powiat Będziński ( Powiat (district) with the capital Będzin ) belonged to the Kielce Voivodeship in Poland .

After the German occupation in September 1939, the Polish district of Będzin belonged from October 26, 1939 to the German-administered General Government for the occupied Polish territories .

German Empire

On November 20, 1939, the border to the Generalgouvernement was finally determined. The district Będzin - now spelled "Bedzin" - was part of the new administrative district Katowice in the Prussian province of Silesia .

The district office was in Bedzin .

On December 29, 1939, Bedzin County was temporarily renamed Bandin . However, this designation did not catch on.

On January 18, 1941, the province of Silesia was dissolved. The new province of Upper Silesia was formed from the previous administrative districts of Katowice and Opole.

On May 21, 1941, the name of the district of Bendsburg was Germanized.

In the spring of 1945, the district was occupied by the Red Army and then became part of Poland again.

Local constitution

After the attack on Poland until 1945 only the cities of Bendsburg , Czeladź and Dombrowa were subject to the German municipal code of January 30, 1935, which was valid in the old Reich and provided for the enforcement of the Führer principle at the municipal level. All other municipalities were grouped together in administrative districts and were administered by office commissioners.

politics

Land Commissioner

1939 -9999:?

District administrators

1939–1940:?
1940 -9999: Grotjan ( acting )
1940–1942: Udo Klausa (1910–1998)
1942 -9999: Wolf Hieronymus (1909–1994) ( substitute )
1942–1945: Hans Felden ( substitute )

Place names

Due to an unpublished decree of December 29, 1939, the previous Polish place names continued to apply.

There was no final assignment of purely German place names until the end of the war. However, this was already prepared in detail. These were phonetic adjustments, translations, new creations or improvements to the names that have been valid since 1939, for example:

holocaust

The remaining 7,000 of the (1940) 24,495 Jews of the district capital Bendsburg were ghettoized , forced into forced labor and deported to Auschwitz , forty kilometers away, until 1943 , including Rutka Laskier's family .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Lilla: Senior administrative officials and functionaries in Westphalia and Lippe (1918–1945 / 46) , Aschendorff, 2004, p. 178; ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
  2. ↑ Auschwitz Yearbook 1996 on the history and effects of the Holocaust; Frankfurt / Main, New York, Campus, 1996, ISBN 3-593-35441-1 ; P. 287.
  3. ^ Mary Fulbrook: A small town near Auschwitz. Ordinary Nazis and the Holocaust. Oxford University Press 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-960330-5 .