Mielau district

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The district of Mielau ( Polish Mława , initially in German: Mlawa) existed in occupied Poland between October 1939 and 1945 .

Administrative history

Poland

The Polish district of Mława belonged to Poland at the beginning of the Second World War , namely to the Warszawa Voivodeship (= Warsaw).

German Empire

After the invasion of Poland , on October 26, 1939, the Mława district was incorporated into the German Reich as part of the new Zichenau district of the province of East Prussia and thus in violation of international law .

On December 29, 1939, the district of Mława was first renamed Mlawa and Germanized in Mielau on May 21, 1941 .

The district office was in Mlawa / Mielau .

On July 1, 1943, the district area was considerably enlarged to the east, by incorporating parts of the Mielau military estate district from the Praschnitz district and the Zichenau district .

The district of Mielau comprised on January 1, 1945:

  • 15 administrative districts with the corresponding number of cities and municipalities,
  • 1 manor district (military training area) with a training camp for the Reich Labor Service on the front lines.

In January 1945 the district was occupied by the Red Army and then became part of Poland again .

District administrators

Land commissioner in Mława

District administrators from 1939 to 1945

  • 1939–1940: Karl Graf von der Groeben ( substitute )
  • 1940–1945: Paul Funk

Local constitution

After the incorporation into the German Reich, all cities and municipalities were combined in administrative districts and were administered by official commissioners.

All districts and parts of office districts that belonged to the military training area "North" was dissolved on 1 July 1943 and the new Heeresgutsbezirk summarized Mielau. This extended over the districts of Mielau, Praschnitz and Zichenau . On the same day he was assigned in its entirety to the district of Mielau.

Extermination of the Jews

When the war broke out there were around 7,000 Jews in the city of Mielau. In November 1940 part of it was deported to the General Government and a ghetto was set up in Mielau , which was cordoned off in 1941. In the presence of District Administrator Paul Funk , the Jewish population of Striegenau had to line up near the local ghetto in the summer or autumn of 1942 , while a Jewish woman was shot to restore order. The chairman of the Judenrat, Striegenaus Baruch Rebek, and his son Majer were shot dead in a raid. On November 10, 1942, Mielau's ghetto residents were deported along with the Jews brought in from the area.

Place names

Due to an unpublished decree of December 29, 1939, the previous Polish place names continued to apply. The first official renaming in the district was the renaming of Mława in "Mielau". Later all places in which the seat of an administrative district was located were renamed. The following places or administrative units were involved:

Web links

  • Mielau district administrative history and the district administrators on territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 11, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Wolfgang Curilla : The murder of Jews in Poland and the German order police 1939–1945 .
  2. ↑ territorial.de