District of Krenau
The German district of Krenau , previously Chrzanow , was incorporated into the German Reich as a result of the German occupation of Poland in 1939 and existed between 1939 and 1945. On January 1, 1945 it comprised:
- 4 cities administered according to the German municipal code of January 30, 1935,
- 8 administrative districts with 45 municipalities.
Administrative history
Poland
At the beginning of the Second World War , the Chrzanów district belonged to Poland , namely to the Kraków Voivodeship .
After the German occupation in September 1939, the Polish district of Chrzanów initially belonged to the German-administered General Government for the occupied Polish territories from October 26, 1939 .
German Empire
On November 20, 1939, the border to the Generalgouvernement was finally determined. The district of Chrzanów (now: Chrzanow) was annexed - without the eastern part with the city of Krzeszowice - as part of the new administrative district of Katowice in the Prussian province of Silesia .
The district office was in Chrzanów .
On January 18, 1941, the province of Silesia was dissolved. The new province of Upper Silesia was formed from the previous administrative districts of Katowice and Opole .
On May 21, 1941, the name of the district of Krenau was Germanized.
In the spring of 1945, the district was occupied by the Red Army and then became part of Poland again.
politics
Land Commissioner
- 1939 :?
District administrators
- 1939–1940:?
- 1940 : Theo Schulz (by order )
- 1940–1943: Walter Cantner
- 1943 : Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg ( substitute )
- 194? : Heinrich Groll ( substitute )
Local constitution
After the attack on Poland until 1945 only the cities of Jaworzno , Krenau, Schakowa (= Szczakowa ) and Trzebinia were subject to the German municipal code of January 30, 1935, which was valid in the old Reich and provided for the enforcement of the Führer principle at the municipal level. All other municipalities were grouped together in administrative districts and were administered by office commissioners.
Place names
Due to an unpublished decree of December 29, 1939, the previous Polish place names continued to apply.
There was no final assignment of purely German place names until the end of the war. However, this was already prepared in detail. These were phonetic adjustments, translations or new creations of the names provisionally valid since 1939, for example:
- Babice : Frauenhübel,
- Chełmek : Helmsmühlen,
- Dąb : prime oak,
- Dąbrowa-Narodowa: chess oaks,
- Jaworzno : Arnshalde,
- Jelen : Long deer,
- Libiąż Mały: Dear,
- Libiąż Wielki: Liebenzberg,
- Młoszowa : Molschau,
- Rozkochów: Roshau (Vistula),
- Schakowa (= Szczakowa): Schachenau,
- Siersza: Serschengrube,
- Trzebinia : Trebing (see today at Powiat Chrzanowski )
Web links
- District of Krenau administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), status August 20, 2013.