Falkenau an der Eger district

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Administrative map of the Reichsgau Sudetenland

The German district of Falkenau an der Eger existed between 1938 and 1945. On January 1st, 1945 it comprised:

On December 1, 1930, the area of ​​the district of Falkenau an der Eger had 61,629 inhabitants, on May 17, 1939 there were 58,559 and on May 22, 1947 38,571 inhabitants.

Administrative history

Czechoslovakia / German occupation

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

In the period from October 1st to October 10th, 1938, German troops occupied this area. The political district of Falknov from then on bore the former German-Austrian name Falkenau an der Eger . It included the judicial district of Falkenau an der Eger. Since November 20, 1938, the political district of Falkenau an der Eger has been known as the “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 Falkenau an der Eger was formally incorporated into the German Empire and came to the administrative district of the Sudeten German areas under the Reich Commissioner Konrad Henlein .

The town of Falkenau an der Eger 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 Falkenau an der Eger came to the Reichsgau Sudetenland and was 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. After that, the district of Falkenau an der Eger was retained within its previous boundaries.

This was the situation until the collapse of the German Empire at the end of World War II .

Since 1945 the area belonged to Czechoslovakia again. Today it is part of the Czech Republic . The town of Falkenau an der Eger has been called Sokolov since 1948 .

District administrators

1939 -9999: Heinz Wirsching
1940–1945: Ekkehard Geib (* 1909)

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

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel file at the Bavarian Main State Archives