Wroclaw Governorate

Administrative division of Silesia (1905): District Liegnitz District Breslau District Opole




Historical map of the Wroclaw administrative district in Silesia, 1905

Royal Government Building in Wroclaw (now the National Museum ).

Government building around 1885

The administrative district of Breslau was a Prussian administrative district in the province of Silesia . It existed from 1813 to 1945 and covered the central part of Silesia. Between 1919 and 1938 and from 1941 onwards, Silesia was divided into two provinces, the administrative district of Breslau being part of the province of Lower Silesia . The administrative seat was in the provincial capital Wroclaw . Other important cities in the administrative district were Waldenburg , Schweidnitz , Glatz , Ohlau , Brieg , Namslau and Oels .

The east bordering Upper Silesia belonged to the administrative district Opole , the west bordering part of Lower Silesia to the administrative district Liegnitz . Until 1820, the short-lived administrative region of Reichenbach lay to the southwest . In the north the area bordered the province of Posen , from 1919 on Poland , in the south on the Austrian crown lands of Bohemia , Moravia and Silesia and from 1919 on Czechoslovakia .

The administrative district of Breslau was designated as Central Silesia in the organizational edict of 1815 .

In 1819 there were 838,253 people living in the administrative district of Breslau (area status 1822), of which 755,553 were Germans, 66,500 Poles, 8,900 Czechs and 7,300 Jews.

The administrative district comprised the following urban and rural districts (as of 1910):

City districts Wroclaw Brieg (since 1907) Schweidnitz

Counties and counties Wroclaw district Brzeg district Frankenstein district Circle of Glatz Groß Wartenberg district District of Guhrau District of Habelschwerdt Militsch district Münsterberg district Namslau district Neumarkt district Neurode district Nimptsch district District of Oels Ohlau district Reichenbach district Schweidnitz district Steinau district Circle chasing Striegau district Trebnitz district Waldenburg district District Wohlau

District President

• 1813–1845: Friedrich Theodor von Merckel
• 1845–1848: Wilhelm von Wedell
• 1848–1856: Johann Eduard von Schleinitz (provisional)
• 1856–1863: Robert von Prittwitz and Gaffron
• 1863–1869: Johann Eduard von Schleinitz
• 1869–1872: Eberhard zu Stolberg-Wernigerode
• 1873–1874: Ferdinand von Nordenflycht
• 1874–1877: Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg
• 1877–1879: Robert von Puttkamer
• 1879–1881: Otto Theodor von Seydewitz
• 1881–1894: Woldemar Junker von Ober-Conreuth
• 1894–1903: Wilhelm von Heydebrand and the Lasa
• 1903–1909: Friedrich von Holwede
• 1909–1911: Philipp von Baumbach
• 1911–1916: Georg von Tschammer and Quaritz
• 1916–1919: Traugott von Jagow
• 1919–1930: Wolfgang Jaenicke
• 1930–1933: Wilhelm Happ
• 1933–1945: Georg Kroll

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistical outline of all European and the most distinguished non-European states . January 1, 1823 ( google.pl [accessed April 26, 2018]).