District of Brüx
The German district of Brüx existed between 1938 and 1945. On January 1, 1945 it comprised:
- 4 cities: Brüx , Katharinaberg , Ober Georgenthal , Ober Leutensdorf
- 39 other parishes.
The area of the rural district of Brüx had 108,678 inhabitants on December 1, 1930, 90,929 on May 17, 1939 and 86,671 on May 22, 1947.
Administrative history
Czechoslovakia / German occupation
Before the Munich Agreement of September 29, 1938, the political district of Most belonged to Czechoslovakia .
In the period from October 1st to October 10th, 1938, German troops occupied this area. The political district of Most from then on bore the former German-Austrian name Brüx . The political district of Brüx included the judicial districts of Brüx , Katharinaberg and Oberleutensdorf . Since November 20, 1938 , the political district of Brüx carried the designation " district ". Until that day he was 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, the area of the district of Brüx was formally incorporated into the German Reich and came to the administrative district of the Sudeten German territories under the Reich Commissioner Konrad Henlein .
The city of Brüx 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 district of Brüx came to the Reichsgau Sudetenland and were assigned to the new administrative district of Aussig .
On May 1, 1939, the partially cut districts in the Sudetenland were reorganized. After that, the district of Brüx was retained within its previous boundaries. He received the communities of Kallich ( district Gabrielahütten) from the Komotau district and Patokrey from the Bilin district .
It remained in this state until the end of World War II .
Since 1945 the area belonged to Czechoslovakia again. Today it is part of the Czech Republic .
District administrators
- 1938–1942: Wolfgang Geißler
- 1942–1945: Paul Wirtz
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 church - parish
- 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.
1941 were incorporated:
- the city of Kopitz and the communities of Rudelsdorf an der Biela , Strimitz and Tschausch in the city of Brüx ,
- the communities of Maltheuern and Nieder Leutensdorf in the town of Ober Leutensdorf .
1943 was incorporated:
- the municipality of Bergesgrün in the town of Ober Leutensdorf.
In 1943 the new town of Ober Georgenthal was formed by:
- Merger of the cities of Nieder Georgenthal and Ober Georgenthal.
See also
Web links
- District of Brüx Administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 28, 2013.
- Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Brüx (Czech. Most). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).