District of Bischofteinitz

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Administrative map of the Reichsgau Sudetenland

The German district of Bischofteinitz existed from 1938 to 1945. On January 1, 1945 it comprised:

On December 1, 1930, the area of ​​the district of Bischofteinitz had 35,198 inhabitants, on May 17, 1939 there were 33,484 and on May 22, 1947 16,458 inhabitants.

Administrative history

Czechoslovakia / German occupation

Before the Munich Agreement of September 29, 1938, the political districts Domažlice and Horšovský Týn belonged to Czechoslovakia .

In the period from October 1 to October 10, 1938, German troops moved into the area in accordance with the Munich Agreement . The political districts Domažlice (partly) and Horšovský Týn (partly) from then on carried the former German-Austrian names Taus and Bischofteinitz. The political district of Bischofteinitz included the judicial districts of Bischofteinitz (partially), Hostau and Ronsperg . The remainder of the political district of Taus included parts of the judicial district of Taus (excluding the town of Taus). Since November 20, 1938, the political districts of Bischofteinitz and Taus have been known as the "district". Until that day you were subordinate to the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch , as head of the military administration.

German Empire

On November 21, 1938, the districts of Bischofteinitz and Taus were formally incorporated into the German Reich and became part of the administrative district of the Sudeten German Territories under Reich Commissioner Konrad Henlein .

The town of Bischofteinitz became the seat of the district administration .

From April 15, 1939, the law on the structure of the administration in the Reichsgau Sudetenland (Sudetengaugesetz) came into force. Then the districts of Bischofteinitz and Taus came to the Reichsgau Sudetenland and were assigned to the new administrative district of Eger with the seat of the district president in Karlsbad .

On May 1, 1939, the partially cut districts in the Sudetenland were reorganized. Thereafter, the district of Bischofteinitz was retained within its previous limits. He received parts of the district of Taus, while the remainder was incorporated into the state of Bavaria, administrative district of Niederbayern-Oberpfalz.

On July 15, 1939, the municipality of Nimvorgut was reclassified from the district of Bischofteinitz to the district of Markt Eisenstein / Bavaria by way of a border straightening . It remained in this state until the end of World War II.

From 1945 the area belonged to Czechoslovakia until its dissolution. Today it is part of the Czech Republic .

District administrators

1938–1939: Heinz Wirsching
1939 -9999: Helmut Liese ( acting )
1939-1945: Heger

Local constitution

On the day before the formal incorporation into the German Reich, namely on November 20, 1938, all municipalities were subject to the German municipal code of January 30, 1935, which provided for the implementation of the Führer principle at the municipal level. From then on, the terms customary in the previous territory of the Reich were used, namely instead:

  • Local parish: Municipality,
  • Market town: market,
  • Municipality: City,
  • Political district: District.

Place names

The previous place names continued to apply, namely in the German-Austrian version from 1918.

cities and communes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel file at the Bavarian Main State Archives
  2. ↑ reclassified on July 15, 1939 to the district of Markt Eisenstein / Bavaria

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