Kutno district
During the Second World War, Kutno County was the name of a German administrative unit in occupied Poland (1939–45) .
Prehistory (1793 to 1807)
After the Second Partition of Poland from 1793 to 1807, the area around the western Polish city of Kutno belonged temporarily to the Gostin district in the Prussian province of South Prussia .
Administrative history
At the beginning of the Second World War , German troops occupied the western Polish powiat Kutno ; the district town of Kutno was captured on September 16, 1939.
On October 26, 1939, the powiat first became part of the Generalgouvernement .
On November 20, 1939, the powiat was annexed to the German Reich under the name of Kutno District , which, as a unilateral act of violence, was ineffective under international law. The district became part of the administrative district Hohensalza in the Reichsgau Wartheland .
The seat of the German district office was the district town of Kutno .
The German occupation ended with the invasion of the Red Army in January 1945.
politics
Land Commissioner
- 1939 : Ulrich von Mylius (1896–1974)
District administrators
- 1939–1940: Ulrich von Mylius (1896–1974)
- 1941– : Trende ( representative )
- 1944 : Knefeli
- 1944 : trend
- 1945 :?
Municipal structure
The localities in the Kutno district were grouped together in administrative districts . The district of Kutno-Stadt was named a city on January 1, 1942 according to the German municipal code of 1935.
expansion
The Kutno District had an area of 916 km².
population
The district of Kutno had in 1941: 111,542 mostly Polish inhabitants.
The German occupation authorities expelled almost 20,000 Poles from the area between December 1, 1939 and December 31, 1943.
The Jewish population was initially concentrated in ghettos in Kutno , Krośniewice and Żychlin and murdered in the Kulmhof extermination camp in 1942 .
The few temporarily settled Germans fled again towards the end of the German occupation.
Place names
On May 18, 1943, all places with a post or train station were given German names, mostly phonetic adjustments, translations or free inventions.
List of cities and administrative districts in Kutno County:
| Polish name | German name (1943–1945) | Polish name | German name (1943–1945) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bedlno | Bedlno | Oporów | Oporov |
| Dąbrowice | Dommstätt | Plecka Dąbrowa | Bleckau |
| Krośniewice | Kroßwitz | Rdutów | Duttau |
| Krzyżanówek | Krzyzanowek | Strzelce | Strelze |
| Kutno | Kutno | Żychlin | Zichlin |
| Łanięta | Laningen |
Web links
- District of Kutno Administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 20, 2013.