Scharfenwiese district
The district Scharfenwiese ( Polish Ostrołęka ; German Ostrolenka , 1941-1945 Scharfenwiese ) existed between 1939 and 1945 in occupied Poland . On January 1, 1945, it comprised ten administrative districts with the corresponding number of cities and municipalities.
Administrative history
Poland
At the beginning of the Second World War, the Ostrołęka district belonged to Poland , namely to the Warszawa Voivodeship (= Warsaw).
German Empire
After the invasion of Poland , on October 26, 1939, the largest part of the powiat Ostrołęcki with the main town Ostrołęka was annexed by the German Reich in violation of international law and became part of the new Zichenau district of the East Prussia province .
On December 29, 1939, the Ostrołęka district was first renamed Ostrolenka and on May 21, 1941 in Scharfenwiese .
The district office was in Ostrolenka / Scharfenwiese.
August 1, 1941 - coinciding with the formation of the district Bialystok - parts of the previous line of demarcation with the Soviet Union as a new east were District Troszyn affiliated with the district focus meadow. This gave the city of Scharfenwiese a little more hinterland to the southeast.
In the course of the Second World War, the Eastern Front advanced as far as the district in August 1944. Therefore the seat of the district office was moved from the city of Ostrolenka to Myszyniec ("Mischienietz"). In January 1945, the district was then occupied by the Red Army , which ended the organizational arrangements of the German occupation.
District administrators
Land Commissioner in Ostrołęka
- 1939 : Renken
- 1939 : Otto Bochum
District administrators from 1939 to 1945
- 1939–1940: Otto Bochum ( substitute )
- 1940–1943: Hermann Paltinat
- 1943–1945: Curt Wohlgemuth ( substitute )
Local constitution
After incorporation into the German Reich, which was contrary to international law, all cities and municipalities were grouped together in administrative districts and administered by official commissioners.
Place names
Due to an unpublished decree of December 29, 1939, the previous Polish place names continued to apply. It remained so until the end of the war, with the exception of the official renaming of Ostrolenka to "Scharfenwiese".
The renaming of all localities had already been prepared, but was no longer carried out.
Web links
- District Scharfenwiese Administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 11, 2013.
- German army map of Ostrołęka and the surrounding area, 1944
