Administrative district of Schneidemühl

Map of the province of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia with district boundaries (1938)

The administrative district of Schneidemühl was rebuilt on August 1, 1922 in the Prussian province of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia . It consisted of three non-contiguous areas of different sizes with a total of nine districts, which bordered the Prussian provinces of Pomerania, Brandenburg and Silesia to the east.

history

Former seat of government of the province Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia, which was newly formed in 1922 (1938–1945 seat of the administrative district of the same name) on the former horse market, Danziger Platz .

Seal of the government of Schneidemühl

On November 20, 1919, the District President of Bromberg in Schneidemühl took up his new role as a government agency for the administrative district Grenzmark West Prussia-Posen . For the time being it administered all the districts and debris from the former Prussian provinces of Posen and West Prussia west of the Vistula and the Polish corridor, which were separated from the German Empire by the Treaty of Versailles . On October 1, 1938, after the dissolution of the Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia Province, the administrative district was incorporated into the Pomerania Province , but was given the name Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia for reasons of tradition .

District President

1922–1933: Friedrich von Bülow (1868–1936)

1933–1935: Hermann Bresgen (1883–1955)

1935–1940: Friedrich Bachmann (1884–1961)

1940 -9999: Müller ( substitute )

1940–1944: Paul Eckhardt (1898–1948)

1944–1945: Karl Wicklmayr (1904–1983) ( substitute )

Administrative division

The administrative district consisted of eight districts until 1938 and the city district of Schneidemühl, formed in 1914 . The seat of the district government was Schneidemühl. From October 1, 1938, after the swap of some districts with neighboring districts, the city district of Schneidemühl and four of the original districts and four newly added districts (called districts from 1939) belonged to the district now known as Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia zu Schneidemühl .

The administrative district comprised the following urban and rural districts:

Urban district

As of 1922 and 1939

1. Schneidemühl , until 1918 district of Bromberg

Circles 1922 Bomst , until 1918 Poznan district, in 1938 divided into districts Grünberg and Züllichau-Schwiebus Deutsch Krone , 1922 from Marienwerder district Flatow , 1922 from Marienwerder district Fraustadt , until 1918 district of Posen, 1938 to district of Liegnitz Meseritz , 1938 to the Frankfurt district Netzekreis , created in 1919 from residual circles Schlochau , 1922 from Marienwerder district Schwerin (Warthe) , until 1918 district of Posen, 1938 to district of Frankfurt

Counties 1939 Arnswalde , 1938 from the Frankfurt district Deutsch Krone , 1922 from Marienwerder district Dramburg , 1938 from the district of Köslin Flatow , 1922 from Marienwerder district Friedeberg in the Neumark , 1938 from the Frankfurt district Netzekreis , created in 1919 from the remaining areas of the districts of Czarnikau, Filehne and Kolmar in the former Bromberg district Neustettin , 1938 from the district of Köslin Schlochau , 1922 from Marienwerder district

See also

• Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia

Web links

• Administrative history Schneidemühl Administrative history and the regional presidents on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of August 21, 2013.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gunthard Stübs: Pommern - Das Land am Meer: The administrative region Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia (2001), accessed on January 25, 2013.