District Friedland (Jizera Mountains)

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The German district of Friedland (Jizera Mountains) (initially: Friedland) existed between 1938 and 1945. On January 1, 1945, it comprised:

On December 1, 1930, the area of ​​the Friedland district had 39,800 inhabitants, on May 17, 1939 there were 36,595 and on May 22, 1947 23,609 inhabitants.

Administrative history

Czechoslovakia / German occupation

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

In the period from October 1st to October 10th, 1938, German troops occupied this area. From then on, the political district of Frýdlant bore the former German-Austrian name Friedland . It comprised the judicial districts Friedland and Neustadt an der Tafelfichte . Since November 20, 1938, the political district Friedland 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 Friedland district was formally incorporated into the German Reich and became part of the administrative district of the Sudeten German Territories under Reich Commissioner Konrad Henlein .

The seat of the district administration was the city of Friedland .

From April 15, 1939, the law on the structure of the administration in the Reichsgau Sudetenland (Sudetengaugesetz) came into force . Then the district of Friedland 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. After that, the Friedland district was retained within its previous boundaries. Only the village of Klein Iser in the municipality of Weißbach changed to the district of Gablonz on the Neisse .

Since November 30, 1939, the district town and the district had the name Friedland (Jizera Mountains) .

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 .

Localities

District administrators

1938–1942:?

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.

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