Opole administrative district

Administrative division of Silesia (1905): District Liegnitz District Breslau District Opole

The administrative district of Opole in Silesia, 1905

Administrative districts and counties in the Upper Silesia Gau (1943)

The old government building on Government Square (today Plac Wolności )

The government building from the 1930s with the Piast Tower

Seal of the district president

The administrative district of Opole was an administrative district in the Prussian province of Silesia . It existed from 1813 to 1945 and covered the south-eastern part of Silesia. 1919–1938 and from 1941 Silesia was divided into two provinces; the old administrative district of Opole then formed the province of Upper Silesia . In 1939, because of the annexations of Polish territory, the administrative district of Katowice and a newly delimited administrative district of Opole were formed, which existed until 1945.

geography

The administrative seat of the administrative district was in the Upper Silesian city of Opole . Other important cities in the administrative district were mainly the large cities of the Upper Silesian coal mining area, i. hu a. Katowice , Gleiwitz , Beuthen , Königshütte and Hindenburg , outside of this metropolitan area mainly Ratibor , Neustadt , Neisse and Kreuzburg .

The northwestern part of Silesia belonged to the Wroclaw administrative district . In the north the administrative district bordered for a few kilometers on the Kempen district in the province of Posen , in the east on Russia , from 1919 on Poland , in the south on the Austrian crown lands Galicia (from 1919 Poland) and Austrian Silesia (from 1919 Czechoslovakia ).

The administrative district comprised the following urban and rural districts (as of 1910):

City districts

Counties and counties

Bytom district
District of Cosel
Falkenberg district
Groß Strehlitz district
Grottkau district
District of Zabrze (from 1915 "Hindenburg OS")
Katowice County
Kreuzburg district
District of Leobschütz
Lublinitz district
Neisse district
Neustadt district
Opole district
District of Pless
Ratibor district
Rosenberg district
Rybnik district
Tarnowitz district
Tost-Gleiwitz district

District President

1816–1820: Carl Heinrich Fabian von Reichenbach
1820-1823: NN
1823–1837: Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Younger
1835–1858: Erdmann von Pückler
1858–1871: Georg von Viebahn
1871–1877: Robert Eduard von Hagemeister
1878–1881: Konstantin von Quadt and Hüchtenbruck
1881–1886: Robert von Zedlitz-Trützschler
1886–1888: Traugott von Baudissin
1888–1898: Rudolf von Bitter the Younger
1898–1900: Friedrich von Moltke
1900–1901: Max von Pohl
1901–1907: Ernst Holtz
1907–1916: Friedrich Ernst von Schwerin
1916–1917: Oskar Hergt
1917–1919: Walther von Miquel
1919–1921: Joseph Bitta
1921–1923: Roland Brauweiler
1923–1929: Alfons Proske
1929–1933: Hans Lukaschek
1933–1936: Artur Schmidt-Kügler
1936–1937: Josef Adamczyk
1937–1941: Hans Rüdiger
1941–1944: Albrecht Schmelt
1944–1945: Herbert Mehlhorn ( substitute )

population

Development of the ethnolinguistic structure

Number of Polish and German-speaking population in the Opole administrative district
year	Polish		German		Others (including bilingual)
year	absolutely	percentage	absolutely	percentage	absolutely	percentage
1819	0377.100	67.2%	0162,600	29.0%	021,503	3.8%
1828	0418,437	61.1%	0255.483	37.3%	010,904	1.6%
1831	0456.348	62.0%	0257.852	36.1%	013,254	1.9%
1834	0468.691	62.6%	0266,399	35.6%	013,120	1.8%
1837	0495,362	62.1%	0290.168	36.3%	012,679	1.6%
1840	0525.395	58.6%	0330.099	36.8%	041,570	4.6%
1843	0540.402	58.1%	0348.094	37.4%	042,292	4.5%
1846	0568,582	58.1%	0364.175	37.2%	045,736	4.7%
1852	0584.293	58.6%	0363,990	36.5%	049,445	4.9%
1855	0590.248	58.7%	0366,562	36.5%	048,270	4.8%
1858	0612,849	57.3%	0406,950	38.1%	049,037	4.6%
1861	0665.865	59.1%	0409.218	38.3%	051.187	4.6%
1867	0742.153	59.8%	0457,545	36.8%	041,611	3.4%
1890	0918.728	58.2%	0566,523	35.9%	092,480	5.9%
1900	1,048,230	56.1%	0684.397	36.6%	0135,519	7.3%
1905	1,158,805	56.9%	0757.200	37.2%	0117,651	5.8%
1910	1,169,340	53.0%	0884.045	40.0%	0154,596	7.0%

Web links

Commons : Opole District - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Administrative district of Opole Administrative history and list of regional presidents on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of July 22, 2013.

Individual evidence

↑ Georg Hassel: Statistical outline of all European and the most distinguished non-European states, in terms of their development, size, population, financial and military constitution, presented in tabular form; First issue: Which represents the two great powers Austria and Prussia and the German Confederation ; Verlag des Geographisches Institut Weimar (1823), p. 34; (Total population in 1819: 561,203; Moravians: 12,000; Jews: 8,000 and Czechs: 1,600)
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Paul Weber: The Poles in Upper Silesia: a statistical study ; Julius Springer's publishing bookstore in Berlin (1913), pp. 8–9
^ ^A ^b ^c ^d Paul Weber: The Poles in Upper Silesia: a statistical study ; Julius Springer's publishing bookstore in Berlin (1913), p. 27

[Georg_Hassel-1] Georg Hassel: Statistical outline of all European and the most distinguished non-European states, in terms of their development, size, population, financial and military constitution, presented in tabular form; First issue: Which represents the two great powers Austria and Prussia and the German Confederation ; Verlag des Geographisches Institut Weimar (1823), p. 34; (Total population in 1819: 561,203; Moravians: 12,000; Jews: 8,000 and Czechs: 1,600)

[Paul_Weber1-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Paul Weber: The Poles in Upper Silesia: a statistical study ; Julius Springer's publishing bookstore in Berlin (1913), pp. 8–9

[Paul_Weber2-3] A ^b ^c ^d Paul Weber: The Poles in Upper Silesia: a statistical study ; Julius Springer's publishing bookstore in Berlin (1913), p. 27