District of Gmünd

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The district of Gmünd was from 1938 to 1945 a regional authority in the Greater German Reich in the northern part of Lower Austria . The administrative seat was Gmünd in Lower Austria .

history

With the annexation of the Republic of Austria to the German Reich on March 13, 1939, the previously Austrian district of Gmünd also became part of the German Reich. On January 1, 1939, the name was changed to the district of Gmünd. On April 15, 1939, the district of Gmünd-Bahnhof (Gmünd III) and the Sudeten German communities Beinhöfen, Erdweis, Gundschachen, Kößlersdorf, Naglitz, Rottenschachen, Tannenbruck, Weißenbach and Witschkoberg were incorporated into the Gmünd district. These places historically belonged to Lower Austria and were annexed to Czechoslovakia after the end of the First World War.

Communities

Cities

Market towns

Remaining municipalities

District administrators

  • 1938–1939: Karl Siedl
  • 1939–1941: Wilderich Graf von Merveldt
  • 1941 -9999: Hans Eisenkolb (1905–1978)
  • 1941–1942: Alfons Sedivy ( executive )
  • 1941–1943: Hubert Kern ( executive )

Web links

  • District of Gmünd Administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of November 23, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Pongratz, Paula Tomaschek: Local history of the district of Gmünd , Verlag d. Stadtgemeinde, Kulturreferat, 1986, p. 321. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).