Katowice Governorate
The administrative district of Katowice was an administrative district of the Prussian province of Silesia from 1939 to 1941 and an administrative district of the province of Upper Silesia from 1941 to 1945 . Today the area belongs to Poland , to a small extent ( Olsa area and Hultschiner Ländchen ) also to the Czech Republic .
history
The administrative district of Katowice was established in 1939 in the Prussian province of Silesia . It comprised areas that had been annexed by the German Reich in autumn 1939 after the German occupation of Poland by the Wehrmacht . In addition, there were parts of the administrative district of Opole . The Katowice administrative district covered an area of 8,924 km² in 1939 and had 2,967,329 inhabitants. Due to the war, the district council of Katowice was relocated to Teschen at the beginning of 1945 , then to Karlsbad . After the end of the Second World War , the territory of the administrative district fell to Poland and Czechoslovakia.
Administrative division
City districts :
- Beuthen OS (until 1939 part of the German administrative district Opole)
- Gleiwitz (until 1939 part of the German administrative district Opole)
- Hindenburg OS (until 1939 part of the German administrative district of Opole)
- Königshütte (part of Poland until 1939)
- Katowice (until 1939 to Poland)
Counties :
- Bendsburg (until 1939 Powiat Będziński , Poland)
- Beuthen-Tarnowitz (partly until 1939 Powiat Tarnogórski , Poland)
- Bielitz (until 1939 Powiat Bielski , Poland)
- Blachstädt (until 1939 Powiat Częstochowski , Poland)
- Katowice (until 1939 Powiat Katowice, Poland)
- Krenau (until 1939 Powiat Chrzanów, Poland)
- Ilkenau (until 1939 Powiat Olkusz, Poland)
- Pless (until 1939 Powiat Pszczyński , Poland)
- Rybnik (until 1939 Powiat Rybnicki , Poland)
- Saybusch (until 1939 Powiat Żywiecki , Poland)
- Teschen (until 1939 Powiat Cieszyński , Poland)
- Tost-Gleiwitz (until 1939 part of the German administrative district of Opole)
- Warthenau (until 1939 Powiat Zawierciański , Poland)
District President
- Ministerialdirigent Walter Springorum from the Reich Ministry of the Interior in Berlin (provisional from October 26, 1939, final from May 1940)
- Government Vice President Erich Keßler (representing from October 21, 1943 to September 1944)
- District President Otto Müller-Haccius from the authority of the Reich Governor in Graz (substitute from September 1944)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the German Reich 1941. (No longer available online.) In: DigiZeitschriften. Formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 16, 2009 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
