District of German Gabel

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The German district of Deutsch Gabel existed between 1938 and 1945. On January 1, 1945, it comprised five cities:

and 59 other parishes.

The area of ​​the district of Deutsch Gabel had 49,050 inhabitants on December 1, 1930, 45,468 on May 17, 1939 and 30,090 on May 22, 1947.

Administrative history

Czechoslovakia / German occupation

Before the Munich Agreement of September 29, 1938, the political districts belonged to Něm. Jablonné and Mnichovo Hradiště to Czechoslovakia .

In the period from October 1st to October 10th, 1938, German troops occupied this area. The political districts of Něm. Jablonné and Mnichovo Hradiště (partly) from then on carried the former German-Austrian names Deutsch Gabel and Münchengrätz . The political district Deutsch Gabel comprised the judicial districts Deutsch Gabel and Zwickau. The part of the political district of Münchengrätz that had become German - excluding the city of the same name - comprised the municipalities and municipal parts of the judicial districts of Münchengrätz and Weißwasser belonging to the German Empire. Since November 20, 1938, the political districts Deutsch Gabel and Münchengrätz 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 area of ​​the districts Deutsch Gabel and Münchengrätz was (partially) formally incorporated into the German Reich and came to the administrative district of the Sudeten German territories under the Reich Commissioner Konrad Henlein .

The town of Deutsch Gabel 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 Deutsch Gabel and Münchengrätz (partially) 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. Thereafter, the district of Deutsch Gabel was retained within its previous boundaries. He received parts of the districts Bohemian Leipa ( judicial district Niemes ) and the German parts of the district Münchengrätz. In addition, the following municipalities were reclassified:

It remained in this state until the end of World War II .

From 1945 the area belonged again to Czechoslovakia. Today it is part of the Czech Republic .

District administrators

1938–1939: Bökelmann ( provisional )
1939–1945: Hofmann

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.

In 1942 the communities Böhmischdorf, Groß Walten (district Neu Falkenburg) and Markersdorf were incorporated into the town of Deutsch Gabel.

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