District of Sankt Joachimsthal

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Administrative map of the Reichsgau Sudetenland

The German district of Sankt Joachimsthal existed between 1938 and 1945. On January 1, 1945, it comprised three cities:

and 22 other parishes. The main town that gave it its name was the Czech Jáchymov, renamed Sankt Joachimsthal .

On December 1, 1930, the city of Jáchymov had 17,997 inhabitants, on May 17, 1939 there were 19,284 (as Sankt Joachimsthal) and on May 22, 1947 (again as Jáchymov) 10,119 inhabitants.

Administrative history

Czechoslovakia / German occupation

Before the Munich Agreement of September 29, 1938, the political district of Jáchymov belonged to the Republic of Czecho-Slovakia .

In the period from October 1st to October 10th, 1938, German troops occupied this area. The political district of Jáchymov from then on carried the former German-Austrian name Sankt Joachimsthal . It included the judicial district of Sankt Joachimsthal. Since November 20, 1938, the political district of Sankt Joachimsthal 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 district of Sankt Joachimsthal 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 city of Karlsbad remained the provisional seat of the district administration until the end of the war .

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

On May 1, 1939, the partially cut districts in the Sudetenland were reorganized. Thereafter, the district of Sankt Joachimsthal was retained within its previous limits.

He received the judicial district of Weipert from the dissolved district of Preßnitz . 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

Since 1945 the area belonged again to Czechoslovakia (Czechoslovak Republic, ČSR or from 1960 Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, ČSSR). Today it is part of the Czech Republic .

District administrators

1939–1942: Helmut Fütterer
1942–1945: Henning von Winterfeld

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 place names were only valid in the German-Austrian version from before 1918.

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