District of Trautenau

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Administrative map of the Reichsgau Sudetenland

The German district of Trautenau existed between 1938 and 1945. On January 1, 1945, it comprised four cities:

and 94 other parishes.

The area of ​​the district of Trautenau had 79,007 inhabitants on December 1, 1930, 73,376 on May 17, 1939 and 50,633 on May 22, 1947.

Administrative history

Czechoslovakia / German occupation

Before the Munich Agreement of September 29, 1938, the political districts of Dvůr Králové and Trutnov belonged to Czechoslovakia .

In the period from October 1st to October 10th, 1938, German troops occupied this area. The political districts of Trutnov and parts of Dvůr Králové from then on carried the former German-Austrian names Trautenau and Königinhof . The part of the political district of Königinhof that has become German - excluding the city of the same name - comprised parts of the judicial districts of Jaromersch and Königinhof. The political district of Trautenau comprised the judicial districts of Marschendorf , Schatzlar and Trautenau . Since November 20, 1938, the political districts of Königinhof and Trautenau have been known as “district”. Until that day you were 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 Trautenau district and parts of the Königinhof district became part of the administrative district of the Sudeten German territories under Reich Commissioner Konrad Henlein .

The town of Trautenau became the seat of the district administration .

From April 15, 1939, the law on the structure of the administration in the Reichsgau Sudetenland (Sudetengaugesetz) came into force. Then the district of Trautenau and parts of the district of Königinhof were allocated to the new administrative district of Aussig in the Reichsgau Sudetenland .

On May 1, 1939, the partially cut districts in the Sudetenland were reorganized. Thereafter, the Trautenau district remained within its previous boundaries. He gave the community of Switschin to the district of Hohenelbe and received the entire remaining district of Königinhof.

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

Czechoslovakia / Czech Republic

From 1945 the area belonged again to Czechoslovakia. Today it is part of the Czech Republic .

District administrators

1939–1945: Sölter

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.

cities and communes

The following places were in the district:

Place names

The previous place names continued to apply, namely in the German-Austrian version of 1918. New community names emerged in 1943:

  • Groß Aupa I with Groß Aupa II (merger): Großaupa,
  • Groß Aupa III: Petzer,
  • Schurz, village with Schurz, market (merger): Schurz.

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