Waldrode district
Waldrode district was the name of a German administrative unit in occupied Poland (1939-45) 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 Gostynin belonged temporarily to the Prussian province of South Prussia as a separate district of Gostin .
Administrative history
At the beginning of the Second World War , German troops occupied the western Polish powiat Gostynin , the district town of Gostynin was captured on September 16, 1939.
On October 26, 1939, the powiat first became part of the Generalgouvernement .
On November 20, 1939, the powiat was annexed to the German Reich under the name Landkreis Waldrode , which, as a unilateral act of violence, was ineffective under international law. The district became part of the administrative district Hohensalza in the Reichsgau Wartheland .
The district town of Gostynin became the seat of the German District Office .
The name of the district was subsequently changed several times (on May 21, 1941 in the Gasten district , on July 24, 1942 in the Waldrode district (Gostynin) and finally back in the Waldrode district on October 7, 1942 ).
The German occupation ended with the invasion of the Red Army in January 1945.
politics
Land Commissioner
- 1939 :?
District administrators
- 1939–1940:?
- 1941–1945: Wolfgang Stäber
Municipal structure
The district of Waldrode was divided into one municipality ( Gostynin ), the remaining localities were initially divided into 13, from October 1, 1942 into 9 districts .
size
The district of Waldrode had an area of 1146 km².
population
The Waldrode district had in 1941: 81,312 mostly Polish inhabitants.
The German occupation authorities drove over 18,000 Poles from the area between December 1, 1939 and December 31, 1943.
The Jewish population was initially concentrated in ghettos in Gostynin , Gąbin and Sanniki and murdered in the Chełmno extermination camp in 1942 .
A small German minority had lived in the district since the 16th century (13% of the district's population in 1897, but since then it has shrunk and assimilated), the German occupation authorities also settled Germans. Towards the end of the occupation, most of them left the district.
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 "Landkreis Waldrode":
| Polish name | German name (1943–1945) | Polish name | German name (1943–1945) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Czermno | Czermno | Nowy Duninów | Dunau |
| Dobrzyków | Weichselhöh | Pacyna | Patzingen |
| Gąbin | 1939-1945 Gombin | Sanniki | Sannikau |
| Gostynin | 1939–1941 Waldrode 1941–1942 guests 1942–1945 Waldrode |
Skrzany | Skrzany |
| Kozice | 1939–1943 Kozice 1943–1945 Kositz |
Slubice | Slit |
| Paint | 1939–1943 Lack 1943–1945 Lonsch |
Szczawin Kościelny | Schauenkirch |
| Lucień | 1939–1943 Lucien 1943–1945 Lutzen |
Web links
- Waldrode district administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 19, 2013.
- German Army Map (1944) of Gostynin and the surrounding area
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