Hohenstadt district

Administrative map of the Reichsgau Sudetenland

The German district of Hohenstadt existed between 1938 and 1945. On January 1, 1945, it comprised four cities and 84 other communities.

The area of the district of Hohenstadt had 62,169 inhabitants on December 1, 1930, 60,314 inhabitants on May 17, 1939 and 42,990 inhabitants on May 22, 1947.

Administrative history

Czechoslovakia / German occupation

Before the Munich Agreement of September 29, 1938, the political district of Zábřeh belonged to Czechoslovakia . In the period from October 1st to October 10th, 1938, German troops occupied the area. The political district of Hohenstadt included the judicial districts of Hohenstadt, Müglitz and Schildberg .

The political district of Zábřeh from then on bore the former German-Austrian name Hohenstadt. The southern part around the Czech-populated city of Loschitz was separated and remained with Czechoslovakia, the areas connected to the Litovel district . Since November 20, 1938, the political district of Hohenstadt 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 Hohenstadt 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 town of Hohenstadt became the seat of the district administration .

The district of Hohenstadt had the highest percentage of Czech residents in the German Empire. Most of the villages were almost exclusively inhabited by Czechs. The cities of Hohenstadt and Schildberg were mainly populated by Germans . In Rowenz , whose population consisted of over 99% Czechs in 1930 , the NSDAP candidates received 90% of the votes in the Sudeten German supplementary election to the National Socialist Reichstag on December 4, 1938. The resistance was not public, but underground. Many of the Czechs who were naturalized in the German Reich joined the resistance movement against the National Socialists.

From April 15, 1939, the law on the structure of the administration in the Reichsgau Sudetenland (Sudetengaugesetz) came into force . Then the district of Hohenstadt joined the Reichsgau Sudetenland and was assigned to the new administrative district of Troppau . On May 1, 1939, the partially cut districts in the Sudetenland were reorganized. Thereafter, the district of Hohenstadt was retained within its previous boundaries with the exception of the municipality of Lußdorf . This moved to the Landskron district .

It remained in this state until the end of World War II. At that time, the district was considered the center of the partisan movement within the German Reich.

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

District administrators

1938-1945: Hotop

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 in the German-Austrian version of 1918 essentially continued to apply. The municipality Wyschehor received the Germanized name Hochberg in 1940 .

cities and communes

(Residents 1930/1939)

Cities

Hohenstadt (4,827 / 6,554)
Moravian Aussee (1,493 / 1,420)
Müglitz (4,574 / 4,325)
Schildberg (1,567 / 1,366)

Communities

All Saints' Day (193/172)
Old Moletein (1.012 / 931)
Augezd (399/424)
Bezdiek (169/171)
Bohuslawitz (551/564)
Brünnles (819/819)
Budigsdorf (561/504)
Bushin (679/671)
Cerhof (394/409)
Chirles (437/405)
Chrises (362/360)
Drosenau (679/704)
Dubitzko (983 / 1.030)
Friesedorf (341/325)
Friesehof (148/125)
Großheilendorf (1.975 / 1.833)
Great Jestreby (651/631)
Great Poidl (426/376)
Großrasel (613/588)
Hakelsdorf (171/184)
Heinzhof (120/119)
Herautz (575/552)
Hniefke (441/396)
Hochstein (423/386)
Janoslawitz (427/471)
Jeedl (1,180 / 1,141)
Jokelsdorf (524/554)
Kaltenlautsch (608/580)
Kleinheilendorf (404/402)
Small rasp (630/630)
Klösterle (232/285)
Kloppe (496/454)
Kolleschau (484/543)
Kosse (526/515)
Kremetschau (281/247)
Kwittein (272/268)
Lenzhof (539/427)
Lesche (1.030 / 1.097)
Lesnitz (845/843)
Lexen (402/403)
Libein (311/286)
Lomigsdorf (807/700)
Lukawetz (386/372)
Lupelle (215/242)
Moravian Karlsdorf (677/627)
Mährisch Rothwasser , market (2.526 / 2.326)
Mürau , market (1.016 / 725)
Nebes (381/391)
Nemile (341/361)
New Moletein (94/97)
Ohrnes (235/212)
Philippsthal (226/238)
Piwonin (247/216)
Pobutsch (392/393)
Polleitz (455/450)
Raabe (854/840)
Rippau (386/385)
Rohle (896/869)
Rowenz (746/787)
Rudolfsthal (566/478)
Schmole (938/965)
Schoenau (564/535)
Schönwald (393/407)
Schreibendorf (1,516 / 1,521)
Schützendorf (315/302)
Schwägersdorf (312/268)
Pigs (355/282)
Schwilbogen (641/656)
Skalicka (546/510)
Stones (449/461)
Stonemason (254/244)
Strupschein (196/204)
Studinke (656/726)
Tattenitz (1,364 / 1,203)
Tritschein (475/496)
Unter Heinzendorf (714/698)
Watzelsdorf (406/414)
White water (579/529)
Welleborsch (261/254)
Wolledorf (184/165)
Wyschehor (311/331)
Zautke (1,548 / 1,450)
Zborow (378/383)
Ziadlowitz, castle (9 /?)
Zottkittl (1,141 / 1,121)

literature

Josef Bartoš et al .: Historický místopis Moravy a Slezska v letech 1848–1960. Sv. 4, okresy: Šumperk, Zábřeh, Rýmařov . Profile, Ostrava 1974, OCLC 462826615 .

Web links

District of Hohenstadt Administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 31, 2013.

Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Hohenstadt district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).