District of Süderdithmarschen
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Coordinates: 54 ° 6 ' N , 9 ° 4' E |
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| Basic data (as of 1970) | ||
| Existing period: | 1867-1970 | |
| State : | Schleswig-Holstein | |
| Administrative headquarters : | Meldorf | |
| Area : | 776.49 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 72,318 (May 27, 1970) | |
| Population density : | 93 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| License plate : | MED | |
| Circle key : | 01 0 46 | |
| Circle structure: | 67 parishes | |
| District Administrator : | Karl-Heinrich Buhse | |
| Location of the district of Süderdithmarschen in Schleswig-Holstein | ||
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The district of Süderdithmarschen was a district in the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein (1867–1932, 1933–1945) and then a district in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein (1946–1970).
geography
location
The district was on the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein.
Neighboring areas
Beginning in 1970, the district bordered clockwise to the north on the districts of Norderdithmarschen , Rendsburg and Steinburg . In the south it bordered the Elbe , in the west on the North Sea .
history
Süderdithmarschen as a territorial unit was created in 1559 after the last feud when the previously independent peasant republic of Dithmarschen was divided among the victors. Süderdithmarschen came to King Frederick II of Denmark .
District seat was Meldorf , other cities Marne and Brunsbüttel . On February 18, 1891, the island of Helgoland, which had previously belonged to Great Britain , was also incorporated into the district. Helgoland left the Süderdithmarschen district on October 1st, 1922 and formed its own district.
Süderdithmarschen was an early stronghold of National Socialism . An anti-republican and anti- modern mood led to the fact that the blood-and-soil ideology of the National Socialists fell on fertile ground in Dithmarschen .
| choice | Süderdithmarschen | Schleswig-Holstein | German Empire |
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| 1924 (I) | 6.8% | 7.4% | 6.6% |
| 1924 (II) | 3.8% | 2.7% | 3.0% |
| 1928 | 17.8% | 4.0% | 2.6% |
| 1930 | 36.3% | 27.0% | 18.3% |
| 1932 (I) | 59.8% | 51.0% | 37.4% |
| 1932 (II) | 57.5% | 45.7% | 33.1% |
| 1933 | 63.7% | 53.2% | 43.9% |
On October 1, 1932, the district was temporarily combined with the district of Norderdithmarschen to form the district of Dithmarschen . On October 1, 1933, the two districts were separated again.
Large parts of the district of Süderdithmarschen were divided into parish land communities until 1934 . The parish land parishes were typical regional and historically grown administrative units. They were dissolved on April 1, 1934 and their individual villages were raised to independent rural communities. After a series of parish mergers in the course of the 1930s, the district comprised two cities and 83 rural parishes in 1945.
After further community mergers, there were still 67 communities in the Süderdithmarschen district in early 1970, including the three cities of Brunsbüttel, Marne and Meldorf. As part of the Schleswig-Holstein administrative reform, the district was merged with the Norderdithmarschen district on April 26, 1970 to form today's Dithmarschen district, which again corresponds in its borders to the territory of the former peasant republic.
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1867 | 39,485 | |
| 1890 | 43,883 | |
| 1900 | 48,526 | |
| 1910 | 55,953 | |
| 1925 | 53,438 | |
| 1939 | 53,676 | |
| 1946 | 102.273 | |
| 1950 | 98,225 | |
| 1960 | 71,800 | |
| 1968 | 73,300 |
politics
District administrators
- 1868 to 1884 Eduard Müllenhoff
- 1885 to 1897 Peter Junker Jürgensen
- 1898 to 1910 Adolf Johanssen (1863–1936)
- 1911 to 1919 Otto Wachs (1874–1941)
- 1919 to 1932 Friedrich Pauly
- 1933 to 1936 Ernst Kracht (without democratic legitimation)
- 1936 to 1939 Erich Buchholz (without democratic legitimation)
- 1939 to 1945 Karl Eger (without democratic legitimation)
- 1942 to 1944 Johannes Beck (without democratic legitimation)
- 1944 to 1945 Fritz Rietdorf (without democratic legitimation)
- 1945 Klinkhardt, member of the government
- May 10, 1945 to April 30, 1946: Dr. Karl Henningsen, District Court Director a. D. (provisional)
- May 1, 1946 to October 20, 1946: Fritz Bremer , businessman
- October 21, 1946 to November 12, 1948: Hermann Schwieger , carpenter
- November 13, 1948 to June 30, 1956: Carl Albers, farmer
- July 1, 1956 to December 31, 1966: Christoph Bernhard Schücking , lawyer
- March 1, 1967 to April 25, 1970: Karl-Heinrich Buhse, lawyer
District Presidents
- April 14, 1950 to May 25, 1951 Hermann Schlueter, senior government school councilor
- May 25, 1951 to April 25, 1970 Ernst Schoof, lawyer and notary
Communities
(Administrative division from April 25, 1970, population from May 27, 1970)
Cities (inhabitants) (area in ha)
- Brunsbuettel (12,225) (5875)
- Marne (5,383) (471)
- Meldorf (7,489) (1772)
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Other municipalities (inhabitants) (area in ha)
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Former parishes
Parish land parishes until 1934
The following list contains the parish land communities of the district of Süderdithmarschen, which were dissolved on April 1, 1934 and their respective successor communities:
Incorporation 1934–1970
The following list contains all municipalities in the Süderdithmarschen district that were incorporated into other municipalities between 1934 and the dissolution of the district on April 26, 1970:
License Plate
On July 1, 1956, the district was assigned the distinctive symbol MED when the vehicle registration number that is still valid today was introduced . It is derived from the former district town of Meldorf and was issued until April 25, 1970. Since April 20, 2015, it has been available again in connection with the license plate liberalization .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b territorial.de: municipality register 1945
- ↑ State Statistical Office Schleswig-Holstein (ed.): The population of the communities in Schleswig-Holstein 1867 - 1970 . State Statistical Office Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel 1972, p. 21 .
- ↑ Genwiki: District of Süderdithmarschen
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. suederdithmarschen.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ 1946 census
- ↑ Statistical Yearbook for the Federal Republic of Germany 1969