District of Dux

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Administrative map of the Reichsgau Sudetenland

The German district of Dux existed between 1938 and 1945. On January 1, 1945, it comprised four cities:

and seven other parishes.

The area of ​​the district of Dux had 50,272 inhabitants on December 1, 1930, 39,486 on May 17, 1939 and 31,189 on May 22, 1947.

Administrative history

Czechoslovakia / German occupation

Before the Munich Agreement of September 29, 1938, the political district of Duchcov belonged to Czechoslovakia .

In the period from October 1st to October 10th, 1938, German troops occupied this area. The fully occupied political district of Duchcov from then on bore the former German-Austrian name Dux . It included the judicial districts of Bilin and Dux. Since November 20, 1938, the political district of Dux led 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, 1938, the area of ​​the district of Dux 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 town of Dux 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 Dux came to the Reichsgau Sudetenland and was assigned to the new administrative district of Aussig .

On May 1, 1939, the partially cut districts in the Sudetenland were reorganized. Thereafter, the new district of Bilin was created from the judicial district of Bilin - without the municipality of Patokrey . The rest of the area was retained as the district of Dux .

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:?
1939–1942: Alfred Karl Emil Pönisch
1942–1945: Richard Noltsch (* 1888, † 1962 in Hersbruck )

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

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

However, phonetic adjustments have taken place, such as:

In 1943 the communities of Schellenken and Sobrusan were merged to form the new community of Neubergen.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gravestone inscription on March 28, 2013 in the New Cemetery in Hersbruck, gravestone was removed in 2014

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