District of Preßnitz

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Administrative map of the Reichsgau Sudetenland

The German district of Preßnitz existed between 1938 and 1945.

On January 1, 1945, the Preßnitz district comprised:

On December 1, 1930 the area of ​​the Preßnitz district had 28,709 inhabitants, on May 17, 1939 there were 26,907 and on May 22, 1947 9,925 inhabitants.

Administrative history

Czechoslovakia / German occupation

Before the Munich Agreement of September 29, 1938, the political district of Přísečnice belonged to Czechoslovakia .

In the period from October 1st to October 10th, 1938, German troops occupied this area. The political district Přísečnice from then on carried the former German-Austrian name Preßnitz . The political district of Preßnitz included the judicial districts of Preßnitz and Weipert. Since November 20, 1938, the political district of Preßnitz has been known as the "district". Until that day he was subordinate to the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Colonel General Walther von Brauchitsch , as head of the military administration.

German Empire

On November 21, the area of ​​the Preßnitz district was formally incorporated into the German Reich and came to the administrative district of the Sudeten German Territories under the Reich Commissioner Konrad Henlein .

The town of Preßnitz became the seat of the district administration .

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

On May 1, 1939, the partially cut districts in the Sudetenland were reorganized. Thereafter, the resolution of the Preßnitz district was ordered :

These area changes were not carried out until 1945 , because the final decision on the continued existence of the Preßnitz district was no longer made. In fact , the Preßnitz district continued to exist.

It remained in this state until the end of World War II.

Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic

From 1945 the area belonged to Czechoslovakia until its dissolution. Today it is part of the Czech Republic .

District administrators

1940 -9999: Merzdorf ( provisional )
1940–1942: Ballmeier
1942 -9999: Anton Heiser
1942 -9999: Raw leather ( provisional )
1942–1945:?

Local constitution

On the day before the formal incorporation into the German Reich, namely on November 20, 1938, all municipalities were granted the right of 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.

See also

Web links

  • Preßnitz district administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 31, 2013.