Police district

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Police districts in terms of municipal law existed in Prussia / Germany from 1833 to 1945. In the Prussian province of Posen and its successor areas (provinces Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia, Pomerania, Mark Brandenburg, Silesia, Lower Silesia) several rural communities and manor districts were combined for joint administration.

history

In the predominantly Polish-populated province of Posen, so-called Woytbezirke (Polish “wójt” = German “Vogt”) were introduced from August 1, 1833 . The Bezirkswoyts, often nobles or (retired) officers, run several rural communities and manor districts on a voluntary basis .

Since this voluntary administration did not prove itself, from April 1, 1837, the districts were divided into much larger police districts, at the head of which a full-time district commissioner was appointed. For each police district an administrative seat with business premises was established, usually in the city that gave the police district its name. The cities themselves stood outside the police district.

With the entry into force of the Versailles Treaty on January 10, 1920, most of the province of Posen was ceded to Poland . Thereupon new large communities ( Gmina ) emerged from the police districts in the same or similar local layout , which in turn - with the abolition of the manor districts - comprised several local communities.

In the remaining parts of the province of Posen, which remained with the German Reich after the Treaty of Versailles , the division into police districts was maintained. These were the following areas:

• the Netzekreis in the province of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia , later the province of Pomerania ,
• the districts of Meseritz and Schwerin (Warthe) in the province of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia, later the province of Brandenburg ,
• the district of Züllichau-Schwiebus in the province of Brandenburg with the greater part of the former district of Bomst ,
• the district of Fraustadt in the province of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia, later the province of Silesia , finally Lower Silesia ,
• the district of Grünberg i. Schles. in the province of Silesia, later Lower Silesia with the smaller part of the former district of Bomst.