Poznan Governorate

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Administrative division of the Prussian province of Posen.
  • Poznan Governorate
  • Bromberg administrative district

    • The administrative district of Posen was an administrative district of the Prussian province of Posen from 1815 to 1919 . Most of its territory is now part of the Polish Greater Poland Voivodeship .

    history

    The administrative district of Posen was established in 1815 in the Prussian province of Grand Duchy of Posen . It comprised the southern part of the province and had an area of ​​17,839 km² when it was founded. The seat of the district president was in Poznan . The majority of the population of the administrative district was Polish-speaking. The province of Posen had belonged to the German Empire since 1871 . After the end of the First World War , most of the government district had to be ceded to Poland in accordance with the provisions of the Versailles Peace Treaty . When the German Reich of the county remained Schwerin on the Warta River and parts of circles Bomst , Fraustadt , Meseritz , Krotoschin , Lissa and Rawitsch .

    Population development

    Poznan Governorate
    year 1820 1850 1880 1900 1910
    Residents 621.099 900.756 1,095,873 1,198,252 1,335,884

    Administrative division

    Map of the Province of Poznan 1905

    1815-1887

    Urban district

    Counties

    1887-1919

    Urban district

    Counties

    District President

    Government Vice Presidents

    Individual evidence

    1. ↑ a b Andreas Kunz: Posen administrative region. (PDF; 69 kB) HGIS Germany, accessed on August 22, 2009 .
    2. ^ Uli Schubert: German community register 1910. Accessed on May 22, 2009 .