Schieratz district
The district of Schieratz was the name of a German administrative unit in occupied Poland (1939-1945) during World War II .
Prehistory (1793 to 1807)
After the Second Partition of Poland from 1793 to 1807, the area around the western Polish city of Sieradz belonged temporarily to the Prussian province of South Prussia as a separate district of Sieradz .
Administrative history
At the beginning of the Second World War , German troops occupied the western Polish powiat Sieradz , the district town of Sieradz was captured on September 3, 1939.
On October 26, 1939, the powiat was annexed to the German Reich under the name of the district of Sieradz (from May 21, 1941, the district of Schieratz ) , which as a unilateral act of violence was ineffective under international law. The district became part of the administrative district Kalisch (from 1941: administrative district Litzmannstadt) in the Reichsgau Wartheland .
The seat of the German district office became the district town of Sieradz .
In 1944 a military training area for the Wehrmacht was established in the south of the district , and on October 1, 1943, part of the rural community Konopnica from the neighboring district of Wieluń , as well as parts of the rural communities of Sędziejowice, Widawa and Zapolice from the neighboring district of Łask .
The German occupation ended with the invasion of the Red Army in January 1945.
politics
Land Commissioner
- 1939 : Friedrich Rippich
District administrators
- 1939–1942: Friedrich Rippich ( acting )
- 1942–1945: August Pfeiffer
Municipal structure
The district of Schieratz was divided into two municipalities ( Sieradz and Zduńska Wola ) and 19 rural municipalities, which were combined in administrative districts .
size
The district of Schieratz had an area of 1422 km².
population
In 1941 the district of Schieratz had: 168,191 mostly Polish inhabitants.
The German occupation authorities expelled almost 29,000 Poles from the area between December 1, 1939 and December 31, 1943, the Jewish population was initially concentrated in ghettos in Sieradz , Zduńska Wola and Złoczew and murdered in the extermination camps Chełmno and Auschwitz in 1942 .
The temporarily settled Germans (20,637 people in 1942, about 13% of the population) fled again towards the end of the German occupation.
Place names
On May 18, 1943, all places with a post or train station were given German names, mostly phonetic adjustments, translations or free inventions.
List of cities and administrative districts in the district of Schieratz:
| Polish name | German name (1943–1945) | Polish name | German name (1943–1945) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Barczew | Barczew | Rossoszyca | Rosshagen |
| Bartochów | Bartochow | Sieradz |
1939–1941 Sieradz 1941–1945 Schieratz |
| Bogumiłów | Bogumilov | Szadek |
1939–1943 Schadek 1943–1945 Schadeck |
| Brzeźnio | Birch country | Warta | Warta |
| Charłupia Mała | Charlupia Mala | Wierzchy | Wierzchy |
| Godnice | Godnice | Wojsławice | Wojslawice |
| Gruszczyce | Gruschütz | Wróblew | Fortified castle |
| Klonova | Clear reason | Zadzim | Scharhausen |
| Krokocice | Krokocice | Zduńska Wola | Free House |
| Majaczewice | Majaczewice | Złoczew | Schlötzau |
| Męka | 1939-1945 Menka | ||
| Urszulin | Primary schoolgirl |
Web links
- District of Schieratz administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 19, 2013.