District of Blachstädt

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Headquarters of the district office

The district of Blachstädt , previously Blachownia, existed in occupied Poland between 1939 and 1945 . On January 1, 1945, it comprised nine administrative districts with the corresponding number of cities and municipalities. The district had an area of ​​1193.3 km² (10.2% of the administrative district) and comprised 60.4% of the previous Polish powiat Częstochowski.

Administrative history

Poland

At the beginning of the Second World War , the Częstochowa County belonged to Poland , namely to the Kielce Voivodeship . With the attack on Poland in September 1939 at the beginning of the German occupation of Poland , the Polish district of Częstochowa was initially added to the German-administered General Government for the occupied Polish territories on October 26, 1939 .

German Empire

On November 20, 1939, the border to the General Government was established. The western part of the district of Częstochowa - without the district town and the pilgrimage district Jasna Góra - became part of the administrative district of Opole in the Prussian province of Silesia , in violation of international law . A district office was set up in the village of Blachownia on the Lublinitz-Czestochowa railway line .

Since December 29, 1939, the rest of the Częstochowa district was called Blachownia . In February 1940, the district was expanded to include the municipality of Kamienica Polska ( Kamienica in Polish ). 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 Blachstädt was Germanized. In the spring of 1945, the district was occupied by the Red Army and then became part of Poland again.

In the policy of Germanization, the most extensive resettlement campaign in the new "East Upper Silesia" was implemented in the Blachstädt district (alongside the Bielitz and Saybusch districts ). Young men were often deported to the German Reich as forced laborers .

politics

Land Commissioner

1939 -9999:?

District administrators

1939–1940: Paul Hampel ( acting )
1940 -9999: Walter Sethe ( substitute )
1940 -9999: Elsholz (by order )
1940 -9999: Paul Hampel ( substitute )
1940–1943: Kurt Becker (* 1910)
1943–1945: Gerhard Werner
1945 -9999: Suermann

Local constitution

All cities and municipalities were grouped together in administrative districts and were administered by office commissioners. The right of the German municipal code of January 30, 1935 valid in the Altreich has not been granted to any municipality.

Place names

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

There was no official Germanization of 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 versions from 1939, for example:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Stelbrink: The Prussian District Administrator In National Socialism: Studies On National Socialist Personnel And Administrative Policy At District Level, Waxmann, 1998, p. 105; ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).