Liegnitz administrative district

The administrative district of Liegnitz was an administrative district in the Prussian province of Silesia . It existed from 1815 to 1945 and covered the north-western part of Silesia.

The administrative district of Liegnitz became known colloquially as Lower Silesia .

history

As original components of the administrative district 1815 in the were regulation division of the Prussian state to its new limit the circles Bunzlau , Frey city , Glogau , Goldberg , Grunberg , Liegnitz , Lowenberg , Lüben , Sagan and Sprottau and Prussian share of the Oberlausitz with the exception of Hoyerswerda reign established.

In 1816 the three new districts of Görlitz , Lauban and Rothenburg were established in Upper Lusatia . In 1820 the administrative district was enlarged to include the districts of Bolkenhain , Hirschberg , Jauer , Landeshut and Schönau from the dissolved administrative district Reichenbach and in 1825 the district of Hoyerswerda moved from the province of Brandenburg to the administrative district of Liegnitz.

The administrative seat was in the city of Liegnitz . Other important cities in the administrative district were Görlitz , Grünberg , Glogau , Bunzlau , Hoyerswerda (since 1825) and Hirschberg .

The eastern part of Lower Silesia belonged to the Wroclaw administrative district . In the northeast the area bordered the province of Posen , from 1919 on Poland , in the northwest on the province of Brandenburg , in the west on Saxony and in the south on the Austrian crown land of Bohemia , from 1919 on Czechoslovakia . 1919–1938 and from 1941 Silesia was divided into two provinces, the administrative district Liegnitz then belonged to the province of Lower Silesia .

Administrative division

Administrative division of Silesia (1905): Liegnitz administrative district


The administrative district comprised the following urban and rural districts:

City districts Glogau , from 1920 Görlitz , from 1873 Grünberg in Silesia , 1922–1933, then to Grünberg district Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains , from 1922 Liegnitz , from 1874

Counties Bolkenhain , 1932 to Landeshut district Bunzlau Fraustadt , 1938 from the district of Schneidemühl Freystadt , transferred to Grünberg district in 1932, restituted in 1933 Glogau Goldberg , from 1932 through the merger of the Goldberg-Haynau and Schönau districts Goldberg-Haynau , 1932 to Goldberg district Goerlitz Grünberg Hirschberg Hoyerswerda Jauer , 1932 in Liegnitz district, enlarged in 1933 State hat Lauban Liegnitz Löwenberg Lüben Rothenburg Sagan , 1932 on Sprottau district Schönau , 1932 in the Goldberg district Sprottau

District President

• 1818–1820: Kiekhöfer
• 1820–1823: Friedrich Troschel
• 1823–1828: Friedrich von Erdmannsdorff
• 1828–1831: Friedrich von Troschel (2nd term of office)
• 1831–1844: Ferdinand zu Stolberg-Wernigerode
• 1844–1848: Hartmann von Witzleben
• 1848 -9999 : Johann Eduard von Schleinitz (acting)
• 1848–1851: Ferdinand von Westphalen
• 1851–1855: Werner von Selchow
• 1855–1868: Carl von Zedlitz-Trützschler
• 1868–1885: Constantin von Zedlitz-Neukirch
• 1885–1895: Nicolaus von Handjery
• 1895–1902: Gustav von Heyer
• 1902–1915: Günther von Seherr-Thoß
• 1915 -9999 : Oskar Hergt
• 1915-1919: Hans Ukert
• 1919–1925: Robert Büchting
• 1925–1931: Hans Poeschel
• 1931-1932: Hans Simons
• 1932–1934: Adolf von Hahnke
• 1934–1936: Herbert Suesmann
• 1936–1939: Max Engelbrecht
• 1939–1942: Friedrich Bachmann
• 1942–1945: Alfred Bochalli

Web links

• Administrative district of Liegnitz Administrative history and list of district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of July 14, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ordinance on the division of the Prussian state according to its new delimitation . 1815 ( digitized ).
2. ↑ Preliminary announcement of the district division of Upper Lusatia in the administrative district of Liegnitz . In: Official Journal of the Prussian Government in Liegnitz . tape 1816 . Liegnitz May 28, 1816, p. 1 ( digitized version ).

• Liegnitz [1]. In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon. Volume 12, Leipzig 1908, p. 540. (zeno.org)
• Liegnitz [1]. In: Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 10, Altenburg 1860, pp. 368-369.