Katowice County
The district of Katowitz (until 1899 district of Katowice) was a Prussian district in Upper Silesia from 1873 to 1922 . Its district capital was the city of Katowice , which had formed its own urban district since 1899 . The former district area is now part of the Polish Silesian Voivodeship . The district of Katowice was also a German administrative unit in occupied Poland during the Second World War (1939–1945) .
Administrative history
The district of Katowice was established in 1873 from the southeastern part of the district of Beuthen , which had become too large for the standards of the time due to the strong increase in the population in the Upper Silesian industrial area . He belonged to the administrative district of Opole in the Prussian province of Silesia . On April 1, 1899, the city of Katowice left the district and formed its own urban district. This changed the name of the district of Katowice in the district of Katowice.
In the referendum in Upper Silesia on March 20, 1921, 44.4% of the voters in the district of Katowice voted to remain with Germany and 55.6% for a cession to Poland. As a result of the subsequent resolutions of the Paris Ambassadors Conference , the entire circle fell to Poland in June 1922 .
Population development
year | Residents | source |
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1885 | 105.358 | |
1900 | 151.660 | |
1910 | 216,807 |
In the 1910 census, 65% of the residents of the district of Katowice described themselves as purely Polish -speaking and 30% as purely German-speaking . In the 1900 census, 94% of the population were Catholic and 5% Protestant .
District administrators
- 1873–1877 Hans Hermann von Berlepsch (1843–1926)
- 1877-1883 Paul Grundmann
- 1883–1897 Ernst Holtz (1854–1935)
- 1897–1916 Ernst Eugen Gerlach
- 1916–1922 Gottfried Schwendy (1869–1958)
Communities
The following communities belonged to the district of Katowice around 1900:
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The rural community of Josephsdorf was incorporated into Domb in 1894 and the rural community of Radoschau to Kochlowitz before 1908. Klein Dombrowka was renamed Eichenau in 1905 , Bykowine in Friedrichsdorf in 1907 and Brzezinka in Birkental in 1906 .
Personalities
- Michael Jary (born September 24, 1906 in Laurahütte, † July 12, 1988 in Munich), German composer
The district of Katowice in occupied Poland
history
As part of the attack on Poland , the Polish district of Katowice was occupied by the Wehrmacht on September 3, 1939 , and on November 26, 1939, part of the newly formed Katowice administrative district in the province of Silesia, under the name of Katowice district. On November 20, 1939, the district of Kattowitz received the communities Panewnik and Petrowitz from the district of Pleß . On January 18, 1941, the province of Silesia was dissolved and the new province of Upper Silesia was formed from the previous administrative districts of Katowice and Opole . In January 1945, the district became Polish again after being captured by the Red Army .
District administrators
- 1939 : Erich Keßler
- 1939–1943: Philipp Karl Heimann (1881–1962)
- 1943–1944: Volkmar Hopf (1906–1997) ( substitute )
- 1944–1945: Kriele
Local constitution
The cities of Laurahütte and Myslowitz as well as all other municipalities in the district were subordinated in three phases between February and September 1940 to the German municipal code of January 30, 1935, which was valid in the Altreich and provided for the implementation of the Führer principle at the municipality level. The district law applicable in the incorporated eastern areas was valid for the entire district area .
literature
- Royal Statistical Bureau: The municipalities and manors of the Province of Silesia and their people. Based on the original materials of the general census of December 1, 1871. Berlin 1874, pp. 338–341 ( facsimile in the Google book search).
- M. Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. (online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006)
Web links
- District of Katowice (Rolf Jehke, 2006)
Individual evidence
- ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Silesia 1885
- ↑ a b c www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de
- ↑ Jakob Spett: Nationality map of the eastern provinces of the German Empire based on the results of the official census of 1910 designed by Ing.Jakob Spett . Justus Perthes, January 1, 1910 ( bibliotekacyfrowa.pl [accessed March 14, 2017]). , see also Silesia # The ethnolinguistic structure of Upper Silesia (1819–1910)
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. sch_kattowitz.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ District of Katowice administrative history and district list on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of July 27, 2013.