Kaaden district

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Administrative map of the Reichsgau Sudetenland

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

and 64 other parishes.

The area of ​​the district of Kaaden had 43,337 inhabitants on December 1, 1930, 39,517 on May 17, 1939 and 22,357 on May 22, 1947.

Administrative history

Czechoslovakia / German occupation

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

German troops occupied this area between October 1 and 10, 1938. The political district of Kadaň from then on bore the former German-Austrian name Kaaden . It included the judicial districts of Duppau and Kaaden . Since November 20, 1938, the political district of Kaaden 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 Kaaden district was formally incorporated into the German Reich and came to the administrative district of the Sudeten German Territories under Reich Commissioner Konrad Henlein .

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

From April 15, 1939, the law on the structure of the administration in the Reichsgau Sudetenland (Sudetengaugesetz) came into force . Then the district of Kaaden became part of 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 Kaaden district was retained within its previous limits. The following municipalities were reclassified:

  • Ober Lomnitz and Ranzengrün from the Karlsbad district in the Kaaden district ,
  • Petersdorf from the Kaaden district in the Karlsbad district .

The district of Kaaden received from the dissolved district of Preßnitz its judicial district of Preßnitz without the municipality of Zobietitz . These area changes were not carried out until 1945 , because the final decision on the continued existence of the Preßnitz district was no longer made. In fact , the Preßnitz district continued to exist.

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: Drautz ( provisional )
1939–1945:?

Local constitution

On the day before the formal incorporation into the German Reich, on November 20, 1938, all municipalities were subject to the German municipal code of January 30, 1935, which provided for the enforcement 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 of 1918.

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