Poznan Government District (Wartheland)
The administrative district of Posen was an administrative district in the new Reichsgau Posen from 1939 to 1940 and an administrative district in the now renamed Reichsgau Wartheland from 1940 to 1945 . Today the area belongs to Poland .
location
The city of Poznan was designated as the seat of government . In the north, the government district bordered on Pomerania and the Reichsgau Gdansk-West Prussia . In the east were the administrative districts of Hohensalza and the administrative districts of Litzmannstadt . The district bordered Lower Silesia to the south and southwest and Brandenburg to the west .
history
Poznan Province
There was already an administrative district of the same name in the Prussian province of Posen , which existed from 1815 to 1919.
Reichsgau Wartheland
After the end of the Second World War , the area of the administrative district fell to the People's Republic of Poland .
District President
- 1939–1945: Viktor Böttcher (1880–1946)
Administrative division
City districts
Counties
- Pear tree (Wartheland)
- Gostingen
- Graetz (Wartheland)
- Jarotschin
- Kolmar (Wartheland)
- Costs (Wartheland)
- Krotoschin
- Lissa (Wartheland)
- Obornik
- Poses
- Rawitsch
- Velvet
- Scharnikau (Wartheland)
- Schrimm
- Schroda
- Wollstein
- Wreschen
Web links
- Administrative district of Posen (Wartheland) Administrative history and the regional presidents on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 28, 2013.