Reichenberg district

Administrative map of the Reichsgau Sudetenland

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

5 cities ( Böhmisch Aicha , Grottau , Kratzau , Liebenau and Oschitz )
3 markets ( Alt Habendorf , Dörfel , Maffersdorf )
58 other parishes.

On December 1, 1939, the area of the Reichenberg district had 71,496 inhabitants, on May 17, 1939 there were 64,070 and on May 22, 1947 42,528 inhabitants.

Administrative history

Czechoslovakia / German occupation

Before the Munich Agreement of September 29, 1938, the political districts of Liberec and Turnov belonged to Czechoslovakia .

In the period from October 1st to October 10th, 1938, German troops occupied this area. The political districts Liberec and Turnov (partly) from then on carried the former German-Austrian names Reichenberg and Turnau. The political district of Reichenberg included the judicial districts of Kratzau and Reichenberg . The part of the political district of Turnau that had become German - without the city of the same name - comprised the judicial district of Böhmisch Aicha. From November 20, 1938, the political districts of Reichenberg and Turnau were known as “district”. Until that day you were 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 districts of Reichenberg and Turnau was (partially) 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 Reichenberg 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 districts of Reichenberg and Turnau (partially) became part of the Reichsgau Sudetenland and were assigned to the new administrative district of Aussig .

On May 1, 1939, the partially cut districts in the Sudetenland were reorganized. After that, the Reichenberg district was retained within its previous boundaries. He also received the remaining Turnau district. In addition, the following municipalities were reclassified:

Alt Harzdorf , Alt Paulsdorf, Franzendorf, Johannesthal, Neu Paulsdorf, Nieder Hanichen, Ober Rosenthal, Röchlitz, Rosenthal I and Ruppersdorf from the Reichenberg district in the Reichenberg district ,
Bad Kunnersdorf , Drausendorf, Johannesthal , Kessel, Nahlau, Oschitz , Sabert, Sobaken and Zetten from the district of Böhmisch Leipa in the district of Reichenberg,
Gränzendorf, Friedstein (the parts of the municipality belonging to the German Empire) and Hermannsthal (village Kohlstadt) from the district of Reichenberg in the district of Gablonz an der Neisse ,
Spittelgrund from the Deutsch Gabel district in the Reichenberg district.

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

Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic

From 1945 the area belonged again to Czechoslovakia. Today it is part of the Czech Republic .

Localities

District administrators

1939 -9999: Herbert Neumann (1888–1976)

1939–1945: Hübner

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 of 1918.

Since 1943, the city of Bohemian Aicha has been renamed Aicha (Sudeten).

In 1944 the following amalgamations of municipalities took place:

Berzdorf and Ober Berzdorf to form the new municipality of Berzdorf (Jeschken),
Nieder Wittig and Ober Wittig form the new municipality of Wittig.

Web links

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

Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Reichenberg. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).