Marienwerder administrative district

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Administrative division of the Province of West Prussia :
  • Gdansk administrative district
  • Marienwerder administrative district

    • The Marienwerder administrative district was the area of ​​a central Prussian administrative district in the province of West Prussia and existed from 1815 until the Treaty of Versailles came into force in 1920. From the autumn of 1939 until the end of the Second World War , there was another Marienwerder administrative district.

    Location and scope

    The administrative seat was Marienwerder . In the north, the area bordered the Gdansk administrative district . In the east the administrative district of Königsberg ( East Prussia Province ) bordered. Also to the east was the Kingdom of Poland as part of Russia . In the south was the administrative district of Bromberg ( province of Posen ). To the west was the Frankfurt administrative region ( Brandenburg province ) and the Köslin administrative region ( Pomerania province ). In 1821 the area was about 17,621 km².

    structure

    In 1820 the administrative district was divided into:

    The districts of Graudenz and Thorn were formed in 1900 .

    Population and economy

    In 1820 the population was 379,062, this rose to 630,405 by 1850 and to 932,434 by 1905.

    The administrative district was dominated by agriculture. Forestry also played a role. Mining was carried out on lignite to a limited extent. The industry concentrated on the processing of agricultural and forestry products as well as the necessary manufacture of machines. The production of linen was mostly operated as a sideline. Thorn and Graudenz were shaped by trade. Since 1852 the area was opened up by the Prussian Eastern Railway . Further rail connections followed. The Vistula served as a waterway.

    politics

    Politically, national liberals (26.3%) and conservatives (22.9%) were roughly equally represented at the beginning of the German Empire (1871). The strongest political force, however, were the Poles, who were represented in the Reichstag and in the Prussian House of Representatives by the Polish parliamentary group with 45.3%. As an agricultural district, the Social Democrats played no role. Hardly anything changed about that until 1912. The National Liberals were largely able to maintain their position and came up with 20.7%. The Conservatives fell below 7%, while the Free Conservative Party fell to 20.8%. The Poles still made up the strongest force with 39.7%.

    The End

    As a result of the Versailles Treaty , the government district was dissolved when it came into force in early 1920. Parts fell to the newly formed Second Republic of Poland , the rest fell to the West Prussian government district or the Posen-West Prussia border region .

    After the German occupation in 1939, a new Marienwerder administrative district was formed in the Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia . In 1945 the entire area fell to Poland.

    District President

    literature

    • Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Province of West Prussia. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
    • E. Jacobson: Topographical-statistical manual for the administrative district Marienwerder . Danzig 1868 ( Google ).
    • Georg v. Hirschfeld: The old Germanic residents of the government district of Marienwerder since 320 BC. Chr., Old Germanic cultural status, agrarian constitution, fortificatory national defense (fortified refuge for cases of war), places to live, housing conditions and agriculture of the old Germanic peoples. A contribution to the old Germanic country and culture history. In: Journal of the Historical Association for the Marienwerder Administrative Region , Volume 1, Marienwerder 1876, pp. 10–46.

    Web links

    Wikisource: Official gazettes of the Prussian district government Marienwerder  - sources and full texts