Torgau district (1816–1952)
The district of Torgau , until 1938 Kreis Torgau , was a district that existed from 1816 to 1945 in the Prussian province of Saxony and from 1945 to 1952 in the state of Saxony-Anhalt of the SBZ or GDR .
Administrative history
Kingdom and Free State of Prussia
On October 1, 1816, the Torgau district was established in the Merseburg administrative district in the province of Saxony . The district office was in the city of Torgau . The district essentially emerged from the Saxon authorities of Annaburg and Torgau ; there were also smaller parts of the Liebenwerda , Mühlberg , Schweinitz and Wurzen offices .
On August 10, 1876, the rural community Mahlitzsch was reclassified from the Wittenberg district to the Torgau district.
On September 30, 1929, a regional reform took place in the Torgau district in line with developments in the rest of the Free State of Prussia, in which almost all previously independent manor districts were dissolved and assigned to neighboring rural communities. After the dissolution of the province of Saxony on July 1, 1944, the district belonged to the new but short-lived province of Halle-Merseburg .
In the spring of 1945 the district was occupied by the US Army from the west and the Red Army from the east . Soldiers from both sides met near Torgau on April 25, 1945, Elbe Day , on the Elbe .
SBZ / GDR
After the dissolution of Prussia in 1947, the Torgau district became part of the new state of Saxony-Anhalt . In the course of the administrative reforms of 1950 and 1952 , the Torgau area was reorganized:
- The communities Audenhain , Graefendorf , Falkenberg , Mockrehna , Pressel , Schöna , Strelln , Wildenhain and Wildschütz came to the Eilenburg district in the Leipzig district .
- The city of Annaburg and the communities of Axien , Bethau , Groß Naundorf , Hohndorf , Labrun , Lebien , Plossig , Prettin and Purzien came to the Jessen district in the Cottbus district .
- The communities of Beyern , Löhsten , Rehfeld and Züllsdorf came to the Herzberg district in the Cottbus district .
- The communities Außenig and Schirmeitz came to the district of Oschatz in the district of Leipzig
- The communities Lößnig and Paußnitz came to the Riesa district in the Dresden district .
- The remaining communities together with the communities Blumberg and Stehla of the district of Liebenwerda and the communities of Dahlenberg , Proschwitz , Greudnitz and Wörblitz of the district of Wittenberg formed the district of Torgau in the district of Leipzig .
Local constitution
The district of Torgau was divided into cities, rural communities and - until their complete dissolution - into independent manor districts. With the introduction of the Prussian Municipal Constitution Act of December 15, 1933, there was a uniform municipal constitution for all Prussian municipalities from January 1, 1934. With the introduction of the German Municipal Code of January 30, 1935, a uniform municipal constitution came into force in the German Reich on April 1, 1935, according to which the rural communities were now referred to as municipalities . These were grouped together in administrative districts . A new district constitution was no longer created; The district regulations for the provinces of East and West Prussia, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Silesia and Saxony from March 19, 1881 continued to apply.
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
|---|---|---|
| 1816 | 33,657 | |
| 1843 | 47,343 | |
| 1871 | 55,145 | |
| 1890 | 55,218 | |
| 1900 | 56,936 | |
| 1910 | 59,399 | |
| 1925 | 58,879 | |
| 1933 | 60,706 | |
| 1939 | 63,957 | |
| 1946 | 85.052 |
District administrators
- 1825–1827 Wilhelm von Rappard
- 1841 / 42–1872 Max von Seydewitz
- 1872–1880 Ludwig Curt von Ponickau
- 1881–1893 Georg Wilhelm Wiesand
- 1893–1919 Wilhelm Wiesand
- 1919–1921 Günther Gereke ( DNVP )
- 1921 / 22–1925 Arthur Drews
- 1925–1933 Julius Wehr
- 1933–1934 Wilhelm Jung
- 1934–1938 Werner Oberst
- 1939–1945 Hartmann Sommerlatte
cities and communes
In the 1930s, the Torgau district comprised the following cities and communities:
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The two parish-free districts of Annaburger Heide and Dübener Heide were also located in the district .
Name changes
The municipality of Cöllitzsch was renamed Köllitsch in 1937 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Official Journal of the Royal Government of Merseburg 1816, p. 334
- ^ Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein: Handbook of Geography and Statistics of the Prussian State . Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1819, The administrative region of Merseburg, p. 345 ( digitized version [accessed on May 5, 2016]).
- ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony . Rubachsche Buchhandlung, Magdeburg 1843, Neustadt-Magdeburg, p. 258 ( digitized version [accessed June 6, 2016]).
- ↑ Royal Statistical Office of Prussia (ed.): The municipalities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Saxony. Publishing house d. Royal Extra Bureaus, Berlin 1873 ( digitized version [accessed on May 5, 2016]).
- ↑ a b c d e f g Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Torgau district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ 1946 census
