Chomutov County

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Administrative map of the Reichsgau Sudetenland

The Komotau district was a German district in Bohemia on what is now the Czech Republic . It existed during the occupation by the German Reich between 1938 and 1945 . On January 1, 1945, it comprised eight cities:

and 77 other parishes. It corresponded roughly to the Okres Chomutov .

On December 1, 1930, the area of ​​the Komotau district had 89,898 inhabitants, on May 17, 1939 it was 85,363 and on May 22, 1947 59,676 inhabitants.

Administrative history

Czechoslovakia / German occupation

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

In the period from October 1st to October 10th, 1938, German troops occupied this area. The political district of Chomutov from then on bore the former German-Austrian name Komotau . The political district of Komotau included the judicial districts of Görkau , Komotau and Sebastiansberg . Since November 20, 1938, the political district of Komotau 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 Komotau district was formally incorporated into the German Empire and became part of the administrative district of the Sudeten German Territories under Reich Commissioner Konrad Henlein .

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

From April 15, 1939, the law on the structure of the administration in the Reichsgau Sudetenland (Sudetengaugesetz) came into force . Then the Komotau district came to the Reichsgau Sudetenland and was assigned to the new district of Aussig .

On May 1, 1939, the partially cut districts in the Sudetenland were reorganized. Thereafter, the Komotau district was retained within its previous boundaries. The following minor changes in the district boundaries resulted from the reclassification of municipalities:

The incorporation of the municipality of Zobietitz from the repealed district of Preßnitz , which was also ordered , was not carried out until 1945, as the final decision on the continued existence of the district of Preßnitz was no longer made. In fact, the Preßnitz district lasted until the end of the war.

It remained in this state until the end of World War II .

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

District administrators

1939–1945: garden

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 1943 the municipality of Sporitz was incorporated into the city of Komotau.

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