District of Markt Eisenstein

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The district market Eisenstein (tschech. Okres Železná Ruda ) was a result of the Munich Agreement with the forced cession of the Sudetenland from 1939 to 1945 the Bavarian government district of Lower Bavaria and Upper Palatinate . The administrative seat of the district was Markt Eisenstein (Czech: Železná Ruda ).

history

The Munich Agreement of September 30, 1938 was signed by the German Chancellor Adolf Hitler , the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain , the French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier and the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini . The Czechoslovakia and the allied with it the Soviet Union were not invited to the conference. The agreement stipulated that Czechoslovakia had to cede the Sudetenland to the German Reich and vacate it within ten days. The invasion of the Wehrmacht began on October 1, 1938. The Czechoslovak district of Klatovy was (partially) occupied and renamed Klattau. The district of Markt Eisenstein was attached to the state of Bavaria on March 25, 1939 as part of the reorganization of the administration of the Sudetenland, which was annexed to Germany by the Munich Agreement .

On January 1, 1945 it comprised:

On December 1, 1930, the district of Markt Eisenstein had 32,884 inhabitants, on May 17, 1939 there were 32,779.

The district area included the judicial district of Neuern and some localities in the judicial districts of Bischofteinitz , Ronsperg and Hartmanitz . On July 15, 1939, the municipality of Nimvorgut was reclassified from the district of Bischofteinitz to the district of Markt Eisenstein / Bavaria by way of a border straightening .

On July 1, 1940, the eleven communities Babilon, Böhmisch Kubitzen, Chodenschloß, Grafenried, Haselbach, Hochofen, Klentsch, Mauthaus, Meigelshof, Possigkau and water soups were incorporated into the district of Waldmünchen .

As early as 1942, the British Foreign Minister Anthony Eden , an opponent of Chamberlain's appeasement policy, declared that Germany had "deliberately destroyed" the agreement, which is why the United Kingdom no longer felt bound by its promises and His Majesty's government was free to settle future borders Let hand. A few weeks later, the French government-in-exile followed suit . The other allies also subsequently agreed.

After Germany surrendered in May 1945, the district of Markt Eisenstein was immediately reassigned to Czechoslovakia . As part of the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia , most of the German-speaking residents of the district were also expelled.

District administrators

1938–1939:?
1939-1943: Lippert
1943–1945: Reimann ( provisional )

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  1. ↑ Hans Lemberg : “Munich 1938” and the long-term consequences for the relationship between Czechs and Germans. In: Jörg K. Hoensch , Hans Lemberg (Ed.): Encounter and conflict. Spotlights on the relationship between Czechs, Slovaks and Germans 1815–1989 (= publications of the German-Czech and German-Slovak Historians Commission 12), Klartext, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-89861-002-0 , pp. 103–118, here p 115.