Podersam county

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Administrative map of the Reichsgau Sudetenland

The German district of Podersam existed between 1938 and 1945. On January 1, 1945 it comprised:

On December 1, 1930, the area of ​​the Podersam district had 44,925 inhabitants, on May 17, 1939 there were 39,903 and on May 22, 1947 26,996 inhabitants.

Administrative history

Austria-Hungary, Czechoslovakia and German occupation

The Podersam / Podbořany district belonged to Austria-Hungary until 1919, to Czechoslovakia from 1919 to 1938 and to the Reichsgau Sudetenland from 1938 to 1945.

The Podersam political district consisted of the Podersam and Jechnitz judicial districts. He belonged in the Kingdom of Bohemia to Saaz circle and bordered to the north by the district Saaz, on the west by the district Kadan , on the south by the districts Luditz and Kralowitz , on the east by the district Laun .

  • Judicial district Podersam with the places: Flöhau, Ledau, Knöschitz, Kriegern, Liboritz, Maschau, Michelsdorf, Mohr, Oberklee, Podersam, Podletitz, Pomeisl, Puschwitz, Rudig, Schaab, Strojeditz, Weiten Trebetitsch, Widhostitz.
  • Judicial district Jechnitz with the places: Alberitz, Dekau, Groß-Chmelischen, Hochlibin, Luck, Jechnitz, Kolleschowitz, Reschwitz, Petersburg, Podersanka, Scheles, Steben, Woratschen.

In the period from October 1st to October 10th, 1938, German troops occupied this area. The political district Podbořany from then on bore the former German-Austrian name Podersam . Since November 20, 1938, the Podersam district has been known as the “district”.

German Empire

On November 21, 1938, the Podersam district was formally incorporated into the German Reich and became part of the administrative district of the Sudeten German Territories under Reich Commissioner Konrad Henlein . The seat of the district administration was the town of Podersam .

From April 15, 1939, the law on the structure of the administration in the Reichsgau Sudetenland (Sudetengaugesetz) came into force . Then the district Podersam came to the Reichsgau Sudetenland and was assigned to the new administrative district Eger with the seat of the district president in Karlsbad .

When the partially cut districts in the Sudetenland were reorganized on May 1, 1939, the Podersam district remained within its previous boundaries until the end of the Second World War.

Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic

Since 1945 the area belonged to Czechoslovakia again. Since its division on January 1, 1993, it has belonged to the Czech Republic .

District administrators

1939–1940: Gerhard Melcher
1940–1945: Leopold Reinelt

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.

cities and communes

literature

  • Wenzel Rott: The political district Podersam (judicial districts Podersam and Jechnitz). A local history for school and home, with many pictures and a district map . Verlag des Bezirkslehrerverein Podersam, 1902. (New edition: (= local and family chronicles from the countries of the Bohemian Crown. Volume 5). Böhmische-Dörfer-Verlag, Trier 2005, ISBN 3-937369-81-3 )
  • Hugo Zumpf, Josef Schuldes (ed.): Saazerland - Hopfenland. Homeland book for the Saaz and Podersam districts . Edited by Franz J. Schreil. Munich 1959.
  • Rudolf Hemmerle: Sudetenland. Signpost through an unforgettable country . Bechtermünz Verlag, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-86074-183-X . Podersam pp. 311-312.
  • Dorothea Eichelberger, Alfred Sykora: Heimatkreis Podersam-Jechnitz In words and pictures (approx. 1100 illustrations). 862 pages. Helmut Preußler Verlag, Nuremberg, 2006, ISBN 3-934679-19-6 .
  • Erich Hentschel: Memorial book for the victims of displacement 1945/46. A documentation of the murders carried out on the German population of Saaz-Postelberg-Podersam and many localities in the Saaz region . Self-published, Soest 1995. (Manuscript in the Sudeten German House in Munich)

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