Gdansk administrative district

Administrative division of the Province of West Prussia:

Marienwerder administrative district

Map of the administrative district of Gdansk

Gdansk Regional Council building

The administrative district of Danzig was an administrative district of the Prussian province of West Prussia from 1815 to 1919 . Most of its territory now belongs to the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship .

history

The administrative district of Danzig was established in 1815 in the province of West Prussia of the Kingdom of Prussia . It comprised the northern part of the province on both sides of the mouth of the Vistula and had an area of 7,735 km² when it was founded. The seat of the government president was in Gdansk . From 1829 to 1878 West Prussia was united with the Province of East Prussia to form a Province of Prussia , which had belonged to the German Empire since 1871 . After the end of the First World War , the Gdansk administrative district and its district structures were dissolved.

Due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty , part of the Gdansk administrative district had to be ceded to Poland for the purpose of establishing the Polish Corridor .

The League of Nations mandate, Free City of Danzig, was formed from another part , and part of the government district remained with the German Empire .

politics

District President

1816–1819: Theodor von Schön (1773–1856)

1819–1825: Theodor Nicolovius (1768–1831)

1825–1840: Johann Carl Rothe (1771–1853)

1841–1863: Robert von Blumenthal (1806–1892)

1863–1868: Robert von Prittwitz and Gaffron (1806–1889)

1868–1876: Gustav von Diest (1826–1911)

1876–1878: Otto von Hoffmann (1833–1905)

1878–1881: Heinrich von Achenbach (1829–1899)

1881–1883: Wilhelm von Saltzwedel (1820–1882)

1883–1887: Anton Rothe (1837–1905)

1887–1890: Adolf von Heppe (1836–1899)

1890–1902: Friedrich von Holwede (1841–1921)

1902–1909: Jaroslaw von Jarotzky (1851–1928)

1909–1918: Lothar Foerster (1865–1939)

Population development

	Gdansk administrative district
year	1820	1850	1880	1900	1910
Residents	274.985	412,547	569.181	665.992	742.619

Administrative division

1818–1887

city districts

Danzig
Elbing (since 1874)

Counties

1887–1919

city districts

Counties

Seat

The regional council of the Gdansk administrative district was located in Neugarten 12-16, Gdansk. After 1920 it was used by the Senate of the Free City of Danzig .

literature

Albrecht Vienna: The Prussian administration of the administrative district of Danzig (1870-1920), ISBN 3-7745-6325-X .
Georg Hassel : Complete and most recent earth description of the Prussian monarchy and the Free State of Krakow . Weimar 1819, pp. 577-586 ( full text ).
Prussian Ministry of Finance: Results of the property and trade tax assessment in the administrative district of Danzig . Danzig 1867 ( e-copy .)
H. Oelrichs: Statistical reports on the administrative district of Danzig . First sequel, edited from official sources. Danzig 1867 ( full text ).
H. Oelrichs: The administrative district of Danzig since 1816 . In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Fourth episode. Volume 5, Königsberg 1868, pp. 289-325.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Andreas Kunz: Danzig administrative district. (PDF; 25 kB) HGIS Germany, accessed on August 22, 2009 .
↑ Barbara Dettke: The Asian Hydra: The Cholera of 1830/31 in Berlin and the Prussian provinces, Posen, Prussia and Silesia . De Gruyter, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-11-014493-X , p. 102. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).
^ Uli Schubert: German community register 1910. Accessed on May 22, 2009 .

[hgis-1] A ^b Andreas Kunz: Danzig administrative district. (PDF; 25 kB) HGIS Germany, accessed on August 22, 2009 .

[2] Barbara Dettke: The Asian Hydra: The Cholera of 1830/31 in Berlin and the Prussian provinces, Posen, Prussia and Silesia . De Gruyter, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-11-014493-X , p. 102. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).

[3] Uli Schubert: German community register 1910. Accessed on May 22, 2009 .