Landskron district

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Administrative map of the Reichsgau Sudetenland

The Landskron district existed between 1938 and 1945. On January 1, 1945, it comprised a town and 42 other communities.

The area of ​​the Landskron district had 34,674 inhabitants on December 1, 1930, 32,637 inhabitants on May 17, 1939 and 22,491 inhabitants on May 22, 1947.

Administrative history

Czechoslovakia / German occupation

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

On October 10, 1938, German troops occupied this area. From then on, the town and district of Lanškroun bore the former German-Austrian name Landskron . The political district Landskron comprised the judicial district Landskron and the communities and parts of the district of the judicial district Wildenschwert belonging to the German Reich . Since November 20, 1938, the political district Landskron carried the designation "Landkreis". 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 Landskron district was formally incorporated into the German Reich and came to the administrative district of the Sudeten German territories under the Reich Commissioner Konrad Henlein .

The town of Landskron became the seat of the district administration .

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

On May 1, 1939, the partially cut districts in the Sudetenland were reorganized. After that, the Landskron district remained within its previous boundaries. He received the community of Lußdorf from the district of Hohenstadt and from the district of Grulich the communities and parts of the district of Senftenberg that belonged to the German Empire , insofar as they bordered the district of Landskron.

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

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

District administrators

1939-1945: Vogel

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.

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