District of Warthenau

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The district of Warthenau , previously Zawiercie , existed in occupied Poland between 1939 and 1945 . On January 1, 1945, it comprised a city ​​administered in accordance with the German municipal code of January 30, as well as seven administrative districts with the corresponding number of cities and municipalities.

Administrative history

Poland

At the beginning of the Second World War , the Zawiercie district belonged to Poland , namely to the Kielce Voivodeship .

After the attack on Poland in September 1939, the Polish district of Zawiercie initially belonged to the German-administered General Government for the occupied Polish territories from October 26, 1939 .

German Empire

On November 20, 1939, the border to the Generalgouvernement was finally determined. The larger western part of the district of Zawiercie became part of the administrative district of Opole in the Prussian province of Silesia .

The district office was in Zawiercie.

On January 18, 1941, the province of Silesia was dissolved. The new province of Upper Silesia was formed from the previous administrative districts of Katowice and Opole, in violation of international law .

On May 21, 1941, the name of the district of Warthenau was "Germanized".

In the spring of 1945, the Red Army captured the district and ended the German occupation.

politics

Land Commissioner

1939 -9999:?

District administrators

1939–1940:?
1940–1943: Paul Hampel (* 1907)
1943–1945: Kurt Becker (* 1910) ( substitute )

Local constitution

After the attack on Poland until 1945 only the town of Warthenau (= Zawiercie) was subject to the German municipal code of January 30, 1935, which was valid in the old Reich and provided for the enforcement of the Führer principle at the municipal level. All other municipalities were grouped together in administrative districts and were administered by office commissioners.

Place names

Due to an unpublished decree of December 29, 1939, the previous Polish place names continued to apply.

There was no final allocation of “purely German” place names until the end of the war. However, this was already prepared in detail. These were phonetic adjustments, translations, new creations or improvements to the names that have been valid since 1939, for example:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Stelbrink: The Prussian District Administrator In National Socialism: Studies On National Socialist Personnel And Administrative Policy At District Level, Waxmann, 1998, p. 105; ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).