District of Tepl

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Administrative map of the Reichsgau Sudetenland

The district of Tepl existed as a German district in the Sudetenland between 1938 and 1945. On January 1, 1945, it comprised seven cities:

and 108 other parishes.

On December 1, 1930, the area of ​​the district of Tepl had 38,614 inhabitants, on May 17, 1939 there were 35,993 and on May 22, 1947 18,109 inhabitants.

Administrative history

Czechoslovakia / German occupation

According to the Munich Agreement of September 29, 1938, German troops occupied the area of ​​the district from October 1 to 10, 1938 . The former political district Teplá of Czechoslovakia was now on the former German-Austrian name Tepl . It included the judicial districts of Bečov and Teplá . Since November 20, 1938, the political district of Tepl 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 Tepl was formally incorporated into the German Reich and came to the administrative district of the Sudeten German territories under the Reich Commissioner Konrad Henlein .

District administration office, the city was Tepl .

From April 15, 1939, the law on the structure of the administration in the Reichsgau Sudetenland (Sudetengaugesetz) came into force . Then the district of Tepl came to 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 Tepl was retained within its previous boundaries. From the disbanded district of Plan he received its eastern part, the judicial district of Weseritz .

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

Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic

From 1945 the area belonged to Czechoslovakia until its dissolution. Today it is part of the Czech Republic .

District administrators

1939–1945: Anton Stopfkuchen (1907–1983)

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 from 1918.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ (* July 23, 1907 Dörfles near Kaaden; † January 20, 1983 in Freiburg i.Br.), lawyer, clerk for the integration of the Sudeten German expellees in the Federal Republic of Germany, holder of the Order of Merit of the FRG.