District of Worbis (1945–1952)

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The district of Worbis in 1948

The district of Worbis , from its foundation until 1946, district of Eichsfeld , was a district that existed from 1945 to 1952 in the state of Thuringia of the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR . He had his seat in Heiligenstadt .

history

In an ordinance on the subdivision of the state of Thuringia from August 8, 1945, the former Prussian districts of Worbis and Heiligenstadt were initially merged to form the district of Eichsfeld with the administrative headquarters in Heiligenstadt . Only individual parts of the authorities remained at the Worbis site . At that time the district included the cities of Heiligenstadt, Worbis and Dingelstädt as well as about 115 rural communities.

As part of the Wanfrieder Agreement , the Eichsfeld district ceded the two communities Neuseesen and Werleshausen to the Hessian district of Witzenhausen in the American occupation zone on September 17, 1945 . In return, the Hessian communities Asbach , Sickenberg , Vatterode , Weidenbach and Hennigerode moved from the Witzenhausen district to the Eichsfeld district. On June 10, 1946, the Kraja community was reclassified from the Eichsfeld district to the Nordhausen district .

The result of the municipal elections on September 8, 1946, in which the Eastern CDU in the Eichsfeld district achieved 63.7% of the vote despite massive obstacles by the SED and SMAD in Thuringia, led to various countermeasures by the state:

  • The day after the election, 13 CDU local chairmen and 5 clergymen were arrested.
  • On the Sunday after the election, the rural district's farmers had to make a special delivery of agricultural products.
  • By order of the SMAD in Weimar, the district had to cede 22 communities to the neighboring districts of Nordhausen and Mühlhausen and the name of the district was changed to the district of Worbis , although the administrative headquarters were still in Heiligenstadt.

On September 30, 1946 the district gave the communities Bernterode , Bischofferode , Bockelnhagen , Breitenworbis , Deuna , Gerterode , Großbodungen , Hauröden , Haynrode , Holungen , Hüpstedt , Jützenbach , Neustadt , Niederorschel , Rüdigershagen , Silkerode , Vollenborn , Wallrode , Weißenborn-Lüderode , Fence clearing and clamp to the district of Nordhausen and the community Lengenfeld unterm Stein to the district of Mühlhausen . On January 15, 1948, the district consisted of 3 cities and 92 rural communities and had 92,192 inhabitants, the area of ​​the district was 657.61 square kilometers.

On July 25, 1952, the district of Worbis was divided into the two new districts of Worbis and Heiligenstadt as part of the district reforms in the GDR . The new Worbis district was simultaneously enlarged by 22 communities from the Nordhausen district and seven communities from the Mühlhausen district. Even before the German reunification, the Worbis district was renamed back to the Worbis district on May 17, 1990, before it merged with the neighboring district of Heiligenstadt on July 1, 1994 in what is now the Eichsfeld district.

District administrators

The castle in Heiligenstadt as the seat of the district council and the district administrator
  • 1945–1946 Aloys Schäfer (arrested 1946)
  • 1946 Fritz Sattler (provisional from September 19 to November 25)
  • 1946–1950 Adolf Braedel (1950 fled to the FRG)

Hugo Dornhofer was the chairman of the district council from 1946 until he had to resign in 1948 and was imprisoned from 1952 to 1956.

literature

  • Egon Grohmann, Martin Fischer: 30 years of socialist Eichsfeld districts of Heiligenstadt and Worbis. Contribution to the administrative and official history of the former "Eichsfeld district" and the "Worbis district with its seat in Heiligenstadt" as well as to the formation of both districts in 1952. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte. Vol. 22, No. 3 (1982), pp. 201 ff.
  • Josef Keppler: The mayors of the district of Worbis as of May 1, 1948. In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift. Volume 4 (2012), Verlag Mecke Duderstadt
  • Rolf Barthel: Major MB Dsilichow, first Soviet commander of the Eichsfeld district in 1945/46. Special edition Eichsfelder Heimathefte 1984

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Worbis (1945–1952)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Second ordinance on the subdivision of the state of Thuringia from August 8, 1945
  2. ↑ Eleventh ordinance on the subdivision of the state of Thuringia from June 6, 1946
  3. ↑ Thomas Speckmann: "A memorial for freedom" The synchronization of the Eastern CDU from the point of view of the Eichsfeld Christian Democrat Hugo Dornhofer . In: Historical Political Messages. 11th vol. (2004), pp. 317-318
  4. ^ Thirteenth ordinance on the subdivision of the state of Thuringia from September 26, 1946
  5. ^ Fourteenth ordinance on the subdivision of the state of Thuringia from October 15, 1946
  6. ↑ Johannes Müller: Short chronicle of the district of Worbis (Eichsfeld). In: Address book 1948 of the district of Worbis (Eichsfeld), Thüringer Volksverlag Weimar 1948, p. 7
  7. ↑ Law on the further democratization of the structure and functioning of state organs in the state of Thuringia of July 25, 1952
  8. ↑ Law on the self-administration of municipalities and districts in the GDR (municipal constitution) of May 17, 1990
  9. ↑ [1]