Reichskommissariat Caucasia

The Reichskommissariat Caucasia was a planned Reichskommissariat of the Greater German Reich , which was to be set up after the intended German victory in the war against the Soviet Union . For the area between the Black Sea , Caspian Sea and Caucasus with an area of around 500,000 km² and a population of around 18 million, Tbilisi was intended as the administrative seat. According to Alfred Rosenberg's concept , the “decomposition” of Russia, a certain independence of the diversity of peoples in this area should be promoted. The aim was to instrumentalize both the Cossacks and the Christian and Muslim peoples of the Caucasus, even though they were viewed as "non-racial" and thus not as allies of equal rank. These ethnic groups were considered to be particularly willing to collaborate because they had suffered badly under the Bolshevik regime. The "crude party journalist" Arno Schickedanz was planned as Reich Commissioner .

Planned territorial division

The Reichskommissariat should be divided into seven general commissariats with several special commissariats.

General Commission of Georgia

Headquarters: Tbilisi

20 district commissariats (75 districts)

to:

Special Commissioner Adjara
Abkhazia special commissioner

Special Commissioner for South Ossetia

General Commissariat of Azerbaijan

Headquarters: Baku

30 district commissariats (87 rayons) including Nagorno-Karabakh

Nakhichevan special commissioner

General Commissariat Kuban

Headquarters: Krasnodar

30 district commissariats (83 rayons) including southwest. Part of the Rostov region

General Commissariat Terek

Headquarters: Voroshilovgrad ( Stavropol )

20 district commissariats (60 districts)

General Commissariat for the Territories of the Mountain Peoples (Mountain Caucasus)

Headquarters: Ordzhonikidze ( Vladikavkaz )

30 district commissariats (93 districts) including the Kisljar region

Special Commissariat North Ossetia - Headquarters: Ordzhonikidze - 3 District Commissariats (10 Rayons)

Dagestan special commissariat - seat: Makhachkala - 10 district commissariats (32 districts)

Chechen- Ingushetia Special Commissariat - Headquarters: Grozny

Special commissariat Kabardino-Balkaria - 5 district commissariats (15 districts)

Karachay Special Commissioner - 2 district commissioners (6 districts)

Special Commissariat Circassia - 1 District Commissariat (4 Rayons)

Sonderkommissariat Adyge

General Commissariat of Armenia

Headquarters: Yerevan

12 district commissariats (42 districts)

General Commissariat Kalmykia

Seat: Astrakhan

including ASSR Kalmykia , Astrakhan Region and the southeastern part of the Rostov Region

Individual evidence

^ Rolf-Dieter Müller: On the side of the Wehrmacht. Hitler's foreign helpers in the “Crusade against Bolshevism” 1941–1945. Links Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-448-8 , p. 229.
↑ Dieter Pohl: The rule of the Wehrmacht. German military occupation and local population in the Soviet Union 1941–1944. Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-48658-065-5 , p. 300.

[1] Rolf-Dieter Müller: On the side of the Wehrmacht. Hitler's foreign helpers in the “Crusade against Bolshevism” 1941–1945. Links Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-448-8 , p. 229.

[2] Dieter Pohl: The rule of the Wehrmacht. German military occupation and local population in the Soviet Union 1941–1944. Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-48658-065-5 , p. 300.