Lissa district (Wartheland)
Lissa (Wartheland) district was the name of a German administrative unit that existed from 1815 to 1919 and from 1939 to 1945.
Prehistory (1815 to 1920)
The area around the city of Leszno ( Lissa ) belonged from 1815 to 1920 as the district of Lissa to the administrative district of Posen of the Prussian province of Posen of the German Empire . In the course of the Wielkopolska Uprising , part of the district came under Polish control in January 1919.
Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , the Lissa district had to be ceded to Poland on June 28, 1919 along with other areas . The evacuation of the German state authorities and the handover to Poland took place between January 17 and February 4, 1920.
The district continued to exist under its Polish name Powiat Leszczyński ( Lissascher district ).
Administrative history
As part of the attack on Poland in 1939, the district came back to the German Reich; Control of the county seat was established on September 4, 1939. On October 26, 1939, the district under the name Lissa District (from May 21, 1941 Lissa District (Wartheland) ) was incorporated into the Posen administrative district, which was now part of the Reichsgau Wartheland , in violation of international law . The district was in the southwest of the administrative district. The district town of Lissa became the seat of the district administration .
In January 1945 the Red Army occupied the district, which has now become part of Poland again. In the period that followed, the remaining German population was largely expelled from the Lissa district by the local Polish administrative authorities . Some of the newly settled residents belonged to the Polish ethnic minority in areas east of the Curzon line that had fallen to the Soviet Union .
politics
Land Commissioner
1939: Reinfried von Baumbach
District administrators
- 1939–1940: Reinfried von Baumbach (substitute)
- 1940–1945: Karl Wollner
Municipal structure
The 86 localities of the district were combined into 8 administrative districts . On October 26, 1941, the district of Lissa-Stadt was named a city according to the German municipal code of 1935.
expansion
The district of Lissa (Wartheland) had an area of 740 km².
population
The district of Lissa (Wartheland) had 63,307 mostly Polish inhabitants in 1941. Between December 1, 1939 and December 31, 1943, the German occupation authorities expelled over 7,000 Poles from the area.
Place names
The local occupation authorities immediately gave all localities in the district with German names, although officially according to the unpublished decree of Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick of December 29, 1939, the German names valid from 1918 should initially continue to apply. On May 18, 1943, German names were set for all places with a post or train station in Wartheland , although there were again deviations.
List of cities and administrative districts in the district of Lissa (Wartheland):
Polish name | German name (1918) | German name (1939-1945) |
---|---|---|
Brenno | Brenno | Sea ford |
Krzemieniewo | Flint | Flint |
Leszno | Lissa | Lissa |
Lipno | Leiperode | Leiperode |
Osieczna | Stork nest | Stork nest |
Rydzyna | to travel | to travel |
Święciechowa | Schwetzkau | Schwetzkau |
Włoszakowice | Luschwitz | Luschwitz |
Web links
- Lissa district (Wartheland) Administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 18, 2013.
- Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Lissa district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).