Lentschütz district
Lentschütz district was the name of a German administrative unit in occupied Poland (1939–45) during World War II .
Prehistory (1793 to 1807)
After the Second Partition of Poland from 1793 to 1807, the area around the western Polish city of Łęczyca temporarily belonged to the Prussian province of South Prussia as a separate district of Lentschitz .
Administrative history
At the beginning of the Second World War , German troops occupied the western Polish powiat Łęczyca , the district town of Łęczyca was captured on September 12, 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 Landkreis Lentschütz , which as a unilateral act of violence was ineffective under international law. The district became part of the administrative district Kalisch (from 1941: administrative district Litzmannstadt) in the Reichsgau Wartheland .
The city of Ozorków became the seat of the German District Office .
The German occupation ended with the invasion of the Red Army in January 1945.
politics
Land Commissioner
- 1939 : Vogel
District administrators
- 1939–1942: Vogel ( acting )
- 1942 : Kollmeier ( acting )
- 194? : Bork
- 1944–1945: Herbert Wagner ( substitute )
Municipal structure
The district of Lentschütz was divided into two municipalities ( Łęczyca and Ozorków ) and initially 15, from 1943 then 11 rural communities, which were combined in administrative districts .
expansion
The district of Lentschütz had an area of 1316 km².
population
The Lentschütz district had in 1941: 127,734 mostly Polish inhabitants.
The German occupation authorities expelled over 30,000 Poles from the area between December 1, 1939 and December 31, 1943, the Jewish population was initially concentrated in ghettos and murdered in the Chełmno extermination camp in 1942 .
The temporarily settled Germans (15,951 people in 1942, about 13% of the population) left the area again after 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 the Lentschütz district:
| Polish name | German name (1943–1945) | Polish name | German name (1943–1945) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chociszew | Rebenau | Poddębice |
1939–1943 Poddembice 1943–1945 Wandalenbrück |
| Dalików | Dallikau | Rogoźno | Rogozno |
| Grabów | Moat pond | Sobotka | Sopken |
| Łęczyca | 1939–1945 Lentschütz | Stary Gostków | Gostkov |
| Leśmierz | Lesmierz | Tkaczew | Tkaczew |
| Mazew | Masau | Topola Królewska | Topola |
| Ozorków | Brunnstadt | Tum | Tum |
| Parzęczew | 1939–1943 Parzenczew 1943–1945 Parnstätt |
Witonia | Expanse |
| Piątek | 1939–1943 Piontek 1943–1945 Quadenstädt |
literature
- Alexander Hohenstein (pseudonym): Wartheländisches Tagebuch , Deutsche Verlagsanstalt 1961 (Diary of the Commissioner of the Poddębice District from 1940 to 1942)
Web links
- Lentschütz district administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 20, 2013.