District of Sankt Avold
The German-Lorraine district of Sankt Avold existed between 1940 and 1944.
history
The French arrondissements of Boulay-Moselle and Forbach in the Moselle department were occupied by Wehrmacht troops after the start of the German campaign in the west in June 1940 and placed under German military administration. As the district of Bolchen and the district of Forbach, they were subordinate to the head of civil administration in the Lorraine region from August 2, 1940 , but still formally belonged to France. German land commissioners were employed in the cities of the same name to manage it.
On December 1, 1940, the districts of Bolchen and Forbach were merged to form the new district of Sankt Avold. The town of Sankt Avold became the seat of the Land Commissioner .
On April 1, 1941, the boundaries to the neighboring districts were changed slightly:
- Integration of the communities of Adinghofen , Weintal and Wittenhofen ad Nied from the Sankt Avold district into the Metz district ,
- Integration of the communities of Behren bei Spichern , Buschbach (Westmark) , Dieblingen , Etzlingen , Kerbach , Metzingen (Westmark) , Nußweiler bei Forbach and Tentelingen from the Sankt Avold district into the Saargemünd district ,
- Integration of the communities Brittendorf , Karlsheim am Wald and Rollingen from the district of Metz into the district of Sankt Avold ,
- Integration of the communities of Eschen bei Mörchingen and Pewingen from the Salzburgen district into the Sankt Avold district .
In anticipation of an enlargement of the city of Saarbrücken , the administration of the city of Forbach , which had already been enlarged to include Stieringen and Schönecken , and the communities of Alstingen , Kleinrosseln and Spichern from the district of Sankt Avold was removed from the district of Sankt Avold and - as a special administrative district Forbach - Subordinated to the administration of the Lord Mayor of the Saarbrücken district. A formal integration did not take place until the end of the war.
In November / December 1944, the district was occupied by an attack by the US Army and again placed under French administration. It corresponds roughly to today's Arrondissement Forbach-Boulay-Moselle .
politics
Land Commissioner
- 1940 :?
District administrators
- 1940 : Hieronymus Merkle
- 1941 : Ludwig Schäfer
- 1941–1942: Lutwin Zimmer
- 1942–1943: Werner Heinze
- 1943–1945: Karl Roth (substitute)
Local constitution
Until the end of 1940, the municipal ordinance for Alsace-Lorraine of June 6, 1895 was in effect. From January 1, 1941, all municipalities in the German Reich were subject to the German municipal ordinance of January 30, 1935, which provided for the enforcement of the Führer principle at community level.
For this purpose, an implementing ordinance was issued on February 1, 1941, according to which joint mayor's offices could be formed from several municipalities .
On April 1, 1941, the district regulations for Lorraine of March 25, 1941 were introduced, according to which, among other things, the previous cantons were dissolved.
The district was last divided into the cities of Bolchen , Mörchingen and Sankt Avold and 95 other communities. Depending on their size, these communities formed their own local police districts or were grouped together in communal mayor's offices.
Place names
After August 2, 1940, the official German place names valid in 1918 initially continued to apply. On January 25, 1941, all place names were finally set in a German version, some of which differed from the one in 1918, e.g. B .:
- Bouzonville : 1918: Busendorf, 1941: Busendorf (Westmark)
- Farschviller : 1918: Farschweiler, 1941: Farschweiler (Westmark)
- Faulquemont : 1918: Falkenberg, 1941: Falkenberg near Sankt Avold
- Hellimer : 1918: Hellmer 1941: Hellmer (Westmark)
- Hestroff : 1918: Heßdorf, 1941: Heßdorf (Westmark)
- L'Hôpital : 1918: Spittel, 1941: Spittel (Westmark)
- Vahl-Ebersing : 1918: Vahl-Ebersing, 1941: Ebersingen
- Thicourt : 1918: Diedersdorf, 1941: Diedersdorf (Westmark)
Web links
- District of Sankt Avold Administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of October 4, 2013.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Landesplanungsgemeinschaft Westmark (ed.): Map "Political Limits in Gau Westmark", as of August 1941, printed as map supplement 8 in: Walther Hubatsch (Ed.): Outline of German Administrative History 1815-1945. Volume 7, Marburg / Lahn 1978; it shows "Stieringen (Wm.)" and "Schönecken (Wm.)" as parts of the city of Forbach, marked as dissolved with a "former municipality boundary" and the municipality name in brackets