Leitmeritz district
After the Sudetenland was annexed to the German Reich in October 1938 (Munich Agreement) , its Litoměřice district was rededicated as the Leitmeritz district, which existed until 1945. On January 1, 1945, it comprised four cities:
and 153 other parishes.
The area of the Leitmeritz district in the Nazi state had 79,200 inhabitants on December 1, 1930, 71,547 on May 17, 1939 and 54,133 on May 22, 1947.
The annexation was ended in the spring of 1945 due to the course of the war .
Administrative history
Czechoslovakia / German occupation
Before the Munich Agreement of September 29, 1938, which came about under military pressure , the political district of Litoměřice belonged to Czechoslovakia .
In the period from October 1st to October 10th, 1938, German troops occupied this area. The political district Litoměřice from then on carried the former German-Austrian name Leitmeritz . The political district of Leitmeritz included the judicial districts of Auscha, Leitmeritz and Lobositz. Since November 20, 1938, the political district of Leitmeritz 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 area of the district of Leitmeritz 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 seat of the district administration was the city of Leitmeritz . From April 15, 1939, the law on the structure of the administration in the Reichsgau Sudetenland (Sudetengaugesetz) came into force . Then the district of Leitmeritz 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. After that, the Dauba district was dissolved. Its western half ( judicial district Wegstädtl ) fell to the district of Leitmeritz, while the latter ceded the community of Schima to the district of Teplitz-Schönau . As early as August 1, 1939, the Dauba district was rebuilt within its former borders. The Wegstädtl judicial district resigned to this district. It remained in this state until the end of World War II . From 1945 the area belonged to Czechoslovakia until its dissolution. Today it is part of the Czech Republic .
District administrators
- 1939-1945: Paul Illing
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.
See also
Web links
- Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Leitmeritz district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- District of Leitmeritz Administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 31, 2013.