Karlsbad district

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Administrative map of the Reichsgau Sudetenland

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

The area of ​​the district of Karlsbad had 35,875 inhabitants on December 1, 1930, 34,068 on May 17, 1939 and 15,915 on May 22, 1947.

Administrative history

Czechoslovakia / German occupation

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

In the period from October 1st to October 10th, 1938, German troops occupied this area. The political district of Karlovy Vary from then on bore the former German-Austrian name Karlsbad . It included the judicial district of Karlovy Vary. Since November 20, 1938, the political district of Karlovy Vary 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 Karlsbad 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 Karlovy Vary .

From April 15, 1939, the law on the structure of the administration in the Reichsgau Sudetenland (Sudetengaugesetz) came into force. Thereafter, the district of Karlsbad 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. Thereafter, the district of Karlsbad was retained with changed borders. The city of Karlsbad left the association of the district and from then on formed its own urban district . It increased to the detriment of the district through the incorporation of the communities Aich , Drahowitz, Espenthor , Fischern , Kohlhau , Maierhöfen, Pirkenhammer and Weheditz.

Furthermore, the communities of Ober Lomnitz and Ranzengrün came from the district of Karlsbad to the district of Kaaden , while the community of Petersdorf moved from the district of Kaaden to the district of Karlsbad.

This was the situation until the end of the Second World War.

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

District administrators

1938: Fritz von Born-Fallois00000
1939–1945: Karl Utischill

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.

In 1942, the new community Gießhübl-Sauerbrunn was formed from the communities Rittersgrün (partially), Rodisfort, Schömitz (partially), Unter Lomitz and Zwetbau (partially). Altdorf and Mühldorf incorporated into Zwetbau.

cities and communes

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