Potsdam administrative district

Map of the administrative district of Potsdam 1905

The administrative district of Potsdam was an administrative district of the Prussian province of Brandenburg from 1815 to 1945 . Most of its area now belongs to the German federal states of Berlin and Brandenburg .

history

The Potsdam administrative district was established in 1815 in the Brandenburg province of the Kingdom of Prussia . It covered the western half of the province and had an area of ​​20,214 km² when it was founded. The seat of the district president was in Potsdam . The government district included the Prignitz , the Uckermark and the Mittelmark . The city of Berlin formed its own administrative district from 1815 to 1822 and had been an independent city in the administrative district of Potsdam since 1822 . When the Empire was founded in 1871 , the Kingdom of Prussia belonged to the German Empire . In 1875 Berlin was again separated from the administrative district. When Greater Berlin was formed in 1920, numerous cities and municipalities in the administrative district of Potsdam were given to Berlin. In 1939 the administrative district still had an area of ​​19,888 km².

After the end of the Second World War , the territory of the administrative district fell into the Soviet occupation zone . In the newly formed state of Brandenburg in 1946 , no more administrative districts were established.

Population development

Potsdam administrative district
year	1820	1850	1880	1900	1910	1925	1933	1939
Residents	554.296	853,668 (without Berlin)	1,161,158	1,929,304	2,859,427	1,299,767	1,415,288	1,691,343

Administrative division

Province of Brandenburg (around 1905) / Reg.-Bez. Frankfurt (green) and Potsdam (red)

City districts :

• Berlin (1822–1881)
• Brandenburg an der Havel (since 1881)
• Charlottenburg (1877-1920)
• Eberswalde (since 1911)
• Lichtenberg (1908–1920, since 1912 Berlin-Lichtenberg )
• Schöneberg (1899–1920, since 1912 Berlin-Schöneberg )
• Deutsch-Wilmersdorf (1907–1920, since 1912 Berlin-Wilmersdorf )
• Rixdorf (1899–1920, Neukölln since 1912 )
• Potsdam
• Rathenow (since 1925)
• Spandau (1886-1920)
• Wittenberge (since 1922)

Counties :

• Angermünde
• Beeskow-Storkow (since 1836)
• Jueterbog-Luckenwalde
• Niederbarnim
• Oberbarnim
• East Havelland
• Ostprignitz
• Prenzlau
• Ruppin
• Teltow (until 1835 Teltow-Storkow )
• Templin
• West Havelland
• Westprignitz
• Zauch-Belzig

District President

1810–1840: Friedrich Magnus von Bassewitz 1842–1850: August Werner von Meding 1850–1862: Eduard von Flottwell 1862–1879: Gustav von Jagow 1879–1881: Heinrich von Achenbach 1881–1889: Karl von Neefe 1889–1900: Robert Hue de Grais 1900–1903: Friedrich von Moltke 1903–1914: Rudolf von der Schulenburg

1914–1915: Friedrich von Falkenhausen 1915–1917: Friedrich Ernst von Schwerin 1917–1919: Adolf von Massenbach 1919–1924: Franz Schleusener 1924–1930: Wilhelm Momm 1930–1933: Wolfgang Jaenicke 1933–1938: Ernst Fromm 1938–1944: Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Andreas Kunz: Administrative region of Potsdam. (PDF; 25 kB) HGIS Germany, accessed on August 22, 2009 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Statistical yearbooks for the German Empire. (No longer available online.) In: DigiZeitschriften. Archived from the original on July 19, 2012 ; Retrieved August 16, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Uli Schubert: German community register 1910. Accessed on May 22, 2009 .