District of Szczecin
The Administrative district Stettin in the Prussian province of Pomerania was from 1808 to 1945. Its predecessor was the western part of the district, which was founded in 1723 Pomeranian War and Domain Chamber based in Szczecin , in turn, from the merger of in Stargard in Pomerania local authorities war department and office chamber was created. The province was divided into three since 1815/18 administrative regions divided: the administrative district of Stettin, the administrative region of Pomerania , the eastern part of Eastern Pomerania included, and in the western part Vorpommern lying Region of Stralsund . The latter was dissolved in 1932 and incorporated into the Stettin district.
history
The city of Szczecin was the capital of the Prussian province of Pomerania from 1815 to 1945. Since 1808 it was also the seat of the regional president of the administrative district of Stettin.
On December 1, 1900, the administrative district of Stettin had 830,709 inhabitants, on May 17, 1939 there were 1,237,782. In 1900 the area covered 12,078.93 km², in which 1,850 cities and municipalities were distributed.
City and rural districts
In 1818 a new district division was carried out, and the administrative district of Stettin has since been divided into the following 13 administrative districts:
- District Demmin
- Circle Anklam
- Ueckermünde district
- Usedom-Wollin district
- Randow district
- City district of Stettin (from 1826 to 1857 part of the Randow district)
- Greifenhagen district
- Pyritz district
- Saatzig circle
- Regenwald district
- Naugard district
- District of Greifenhagen and
- Kammin district
In 1900 the administrative district continued to consist of a city district and 12 districts. From 1939 there were four urban and 13 rural districts. The most important change in the area was the annexation of the Stralsund administrative district in 1932.
Surname | Population 1900 | Inhabitants 1933 | Inhabitants 1939 | comment |
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Szczecin , city | 210.702 | 270,747 | 382,984 | Independent city (Stadtkreis) from 1818 to 1826 and since 1857 |
Stargard in Pomerania , city | - | 35,804 | 39,760 | Free from a circle since 1901. |
Greifswald , city | - | 29,488 | 37.051 | Until 1932 in the Stralsund administrative district . Independent since 1913. |
Stralsund , city | - | 43,630 | 52,931 | Until 1932 in the Stralsund administrative district . Free from a circle since 1874. |
Anklam | 32,693 | 35,279 | 39,527 | |
Cammin | 42,485 | 45,046 | 45,694 | |
Demmin | 48,090 | 50.206 | 54,769 | Changes in 1937 |
Franzburg-Barth | - | 44,569 | 55,542 | Seat of the district administration: Barth . Until 1932 in the Stralsund administrative district |
Greifenberg | 37,483 | 43,794 | - | To the 1938 Administrative district Köslin submitted |
Greifenhagen | 48,258 | 55.281 | 69,326 | |
Greifswald , district | n / A | 40,605 | n / A | From 1913 without the city of Greifswald |
Grim | - | 41,065 | 39.207 | Until 1932 in the Stralsund administrative district |
Naugard | 52,777 | 61,848 | 61,320 | |
Pyritz | 42,686 | 47,717 | 48,418 | |
Randow | 94,859 | 113.276 | 139.061 | Largest district in Pomerania, dissolved in 1939 |
Rainforest | 44,954 | 49,739 | - | To the 1938 Administrative district Köslin submitted |
to reprimand | - | 53,289 | 62,261 | Seat of the district administration: Bergen on Rügen . Until 1932 in the Stralsund administrative district |
Cumbersome | 69,762 | 44,458 | 43,258 | District administration: Stargard . The figure for 1900 still includes the town of Stargard, which was still part of the district at that time, but not for 1939. |
Ueckermünde | 56,767 | 59,422 | 79.996 | |
Usedom-Wollin | 52.193 | 69.111 | 83,479 | Seat of the district administration: Swinoujscie |
After 1945
After 1945, Szczecin was the seat of the Szczecin Voivodeship until 1998 , when it was united with the Köslin Voivodeship to form the West Pomeranian Voivodeship , whose official seat remained in Szczecin. The parts of the area that remained German in the GDR belonged to the districts of Frankfurt (Oder) , Neubrandenburg and Rostock and, since 1990, to Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
people
District President
The regional presidents of the administrative district of Szczecin were:
- 1818-1821: vacant
- 1821–1828: Karl Ludwig Böhlendorff
- 1828–1831: Johann August Sack , also President of the Province of Pomerania
- 1831–1835: Moritz Haubold von Schönberg , also President of the Province of Pomerania
- 1835–1852: Wilhelm von Bonin , also President of the Province of Pomerania
- 1852–1866: Ernst Senfft von Pilsach , also President of the Province of Pomerania
- 1867–1882: Ferdinand von Münchhausen , also President of the Province of Pomerania
- 1882–1887: Richard Wegner
- 1887–1899: Hugo von Sommerfeld
- 1899–1911: Heinrich Otto Guenther
- 1911–1922: Kurt von Schmeling
- 1922–1927: Leopold Höhnen
- 1927–1930: Carl von Halfern
- 1930–1931: Hans Simons , provisional district president
- 1931–1932: Karl Simons
- 1932–1934: Konrad Göppert
- 1934–1935: Rudolf zur Bonsen
- 1935–1939: Gottfried von Bismarck-Schönhausen
- 1939–1944: Karl Ferdinand Edler von der Planitz
- 1944–1945: Hugo Lotz
literature
- Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Dictionary. Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-88189-394-6 .
- Dirk Mellies: Modernization in the Prussian Province? The administrative district of Stettin in the 19th century (= critical studies on historical science . Volume 201). Göttingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-525-37023-0 .
- Official municipality register for the German Reich based on the 1919 census. Published by the Statistical Reichsamt, Stettin 1941
- List of localities of the government district of Stettin according to the new district division from 1817 including alphabetical register. Stettin 1817, printed by Carl Wilhelm Struck ( online ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Administrative history of the city of Stettin and the Randow district, Heinrich Berghaus: History of the city of Stettin . In: Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . tape 8 . F. Riemschneider, Berlin and Wriezen 1875, p. 106 ff . ( Digitized version ).