Koenigsberg administrative district
The Prussian government district of Königsberg in East Prussia , with Königsberg as its capital, existed from 1808 to 1945, initially under the name of the government district of East Prussia zu Königsberg . Together with the administrative district of Litthauen zu Gumbinnen , it was part of the province of East Prussia and the province of Prussia .
tasks
The regional council was an intermediate authority of the Prussian state administration for the administrative region of Königsberg. It was responsible for all matters that were not expressly assigned to other authorities and had the right to oversee all subordinate authorities. It consisted of three departments:
- Presidential department responsible for police matters and home affairs
- Department for Church and School System
- Direct Taxes, Domains and Forests Department.
The original collegial system was replaced by the monocratic system (as in the presidential department). A district committee was attached to the district president, which made decisions on administrative and procedural matters.
The regional council published the official gazette of the Prussian government in Königsberg , in which the government's ordinances and pronouncements were published.
Administrative division
In 1905 the southern part of the administrative district with the districts of Allenstein ( city and country ), Ortelsburg , Osterode , Rößel and Neidenburg was separated. From these and four other districts of the Gumbinnen administrative district , the Allenstein administrative district was newly formed.
In 1920 the district of Memel , along with the rest of the Memelland , was ceded by the German Reich in accordance with the Versailles Treaty and later handed over to Lithuania . In 1939, after the area was returned to Germany, all the districts there were incorporated into the Gumbinnen administrative district.
City and rural districts
City / district | Residents | surface | Population density | Municipalities, cities / spots / municipalities |
---|---|---|---|---|
Koenigsberg district | 372.164 | 192.76 km² | 1930.7 inh / km² | 1/0/0 |
Bartenstein district | 50,448 | 880.55 km² | 57.3 inh / km² | 4/2/73 |
Braunsberg district | 62,317 | 946.34 km² | 65.9 inh / km² | 4/0/93 |
District of Gerdauen | 35,013 | 844.41 km² | 41.5 inh / km² | 2/1/68 |
District of Heiligenbeil | 53.207 | 907.86 km² | 58.6 inh / km² | 2/2/110 |
Heilsberg district | 56.214 | 1095.64 km² | 61.3 inh / km² | 2/0/105 |
Labiau County | 51,885 | 1065.65 km² | 48.7 inh / km² | 1/3/123 |
District of Mohrungen | 56,255 | 1265.36 km² | 44.5 inh / km² | 3/0/109 |
District of Preussisch Eylau | 56,385 | 1228.49 km² | 45.9 inh / km² | 3/0/114 |
District of Prussian Holland | 37,492 | 858.28 km² | 43.7 inh / km² | 2/1/91 |
Rastenburg district | 57,223 | 871.08 km² | 65.7 inh / km² | 3/1/75 |
Samland County | 120,246 | 1922.92 km² | 62.5 inh / km² | 2/2/193 |
Wehlau district | 50,236 | 1067.27 km² | 47.1 inh / km² | 3/0/116 |
total | 1,059,085 | 13146.61 km² | 80.6 inh / km² | 32/12/1269 |
District President
- 1815–1818: Ludwig von Wißmann (1770–1854)
- 1818–1825: Theodor von Baumann
- 1825–1832: Friedrich Ferdinand Meding (1774–1838)
- 1835–1843: Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Wundlacken
- 1843–1850: Carl Wilhelm von Bötticher
- 1850–1869: Franz August Eichmann
- 1869–1881: Karl von Horn
- 1881–1882: Adolf von Schmeling
- 1882–1886: Conrad von Studt
- 1887–1889: Eberhard von der Recke von der Horst
- 1890–1894: Wilhelm von Heydebrand and the Lasa
- 1894–1899: Bernhard Tieschowitz von Tieschowa (1841–1909)
- 1899–1903: Wilhelm von Waldow
- 1903–1908: Nikolaus von Werder
- 1909–1915: Robert von Keyserlingk-Cammerau
- 1915–1919: Friedrich Karl Gramsch
- 1919–1924: Matthias von Oppen and Ernst Bolck
- 1925–1932: Max von Bahrfeldt
- 1932–1936: Werner Friedrich
- 1936–1941: Paul Hoffmann
- 1941–1945: Kurt Angermann
seal
Seal mark of the royal government as it was used until 1918, possibly even until 1921.
Seal mark of the district president with the Prussian coat of arms eagle , which was introduced in June 1921 and abolished in October 1933.
literature
- Rüdiger Döhler : Corps students in the administration of East Prussia. In: then and now. Volume 54, 2009, pp. 240-246.
- Klaus von der Groeben : The country of East Prussia. Self-preservation, self-organization, self-administration 1750 to 1945. (= sources on administrative history. Volume 7). Lorenz von Stein Institute, Kiel 1993, DNB 930875869 .
- Reinhard Hauf: The Prussian administration of the government district of Königsberg, 1871-1920 . Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 1980, ISBN 3-7745-6447-7 . (books.google.de)
- Adolf Schlott: Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Königsberg according to official sources . Hartung, Königsberg 1861. (books.google.de , full text)
- Adolf Schlott: Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Königsberg . Reyländer, Tilsit 1848. (digitalis.uni-koeln.de , digitized version)
References and comments
- ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Wurzburg 2002.
- ↑ Home Atlas for the Province of East Prussia. Weltbild publishing group, Augsburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8289-0832-1 .
- ↑ 1825 President in Poznan
- ↑ a b as President
- ↑ as an interim solution in office
Web links
- Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Königsberg administrative region. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- Royal Government Building in Königsberg, set of plans by the architect Karl Friedrich Endell from 1881 ( high-resolution digital copies of the Architecture Museum of the Technical University of Berlin )