Administrative region of Köslin

Administrative division of Pomerania in 1913: Administrative region Köslin Administrative region Stralsund Administrative region Stettin




The administrative district of Köslin ( Cöslin in the 19th century ) in the Prussian province of Pomerania existed from 1816 to 1945.

history

In 1816 the city of Cöslin became the seat of the regional council for Western Pomerania . On December 1, 1900, the district had 587,783 inhabitants, on May 17, 1939 there were 597,869. In 1900 the area covered 14,030.73 km², to which 1900 cities and municipalities were distributed.

The seat of government was initially a building from the middle of the 18th century on the corner of Regierungsstrasse and Kleiner Wall. As the administration grew, the government was gradually spread over eleven buildings in the city of Köslin. A new, representative government building was not completed until 1939.

City and rural districts

Surname	Population 1900	Inhabitants 1939	comment
Stolp , city	27,293	59,377	Free from a circle since 1898.
Koslin , city	-	33,429	Independent since 1923.
Kolberg , city	-	37.051	Free from a circle since 1920.
Belgard (Persante)	47.097	79.183	1932 merged with the district of Schivelbein .
Bublitz	20,916	-	1932 merged with the district of Köslin .
Butow	26,021	28,018
Dramburg	35,863	-	1938 integrated into the new administrative region Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia .
Greifenberg i. Pom.	-	47,806	Until 1938 in the administrative district of Szczecin
Kolberg-Koerlin	57,871	38,785	The city of Kolberg was spun off as a city district in 1920.
Koslin	48,678	80.287	1932 merged with the district of Bublitz .
Lauenburg	45,986	63,985
Neustettin district	76.101	-	1938 integrated into the new administrative region Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia .
Rainforest	-	49,668	Until 1938 in the administrative district of Szczecin .
Rummelsburg	33,785	40,692
Schivelbein	19,656	-	1932 merged with the district of Belgard .
Slack	73.206	78,363
Stumble	75,310	83.009

District President

Government building in Koslin (1903)

Otto Junghann , District President from 1919 to 1925

• 1818–1832: Heinrich zu Dohna-Wundlacken
• 1832–1834: Wilhelm von Bonin
• 1834–1852: August Ludwig Leopold von Fritsche
• 1852–1856: Carl von Senden
• 1856–1864: Johann Gottlieb August Naumann
• 1864–1866: Hans Wilhelm von Kotze
• 1867–1871: Alexander von Götz and Schwanenflies
• 1872–1874: Ludwig von Kamptz
• 1874–1883: Achatius von Auerswald
• 1883-1893: Max Clairon d'Haussonville
• 1893–1898: Eberhard von der Recke
• 1898–1903: Viktor von Tepper-Laski
• 1903–1908: Kurt Detloff von Schwerin
• 1908–1911: Paul Johannes von Funck
• 1911-1915: Bill Drews
• 1915–1919: Heinrich von Zedlitz and Neukirch
• 1919–1925: Otto Junghann
• 1925-1934: Curt Cronau
• 1934–1936: Konrad Göppert
• 1936–1938: Albert Leister
• 1938–1944: Johannes Müller
• 1944–1945: Emil Popp

After 1945

After 1945, the city of Koszalin was the seat of the Köslin Voivodeship until 1998 , which then became part of the West Pomeranian Voivodeships (seat: Stettin ) and Pomerania (seat: Danzig ).

literature

• Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Dictionary. Special edition. Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-88189-394-6 .
• Official municipality register for the German Reich based on the 1939 population census . Published by the Statistical Reichsamt, Stettin 1941.

Footnotes

1. ↑ A Bauereignis in Koszalin. The new government building. In: The Pommersche Zeitung. No. 29/2012, p. 7.