Colin Muir Barber#Barber Lyashchenko Agreement

The Barber Ljaschtschenko Agreement (even Barber Lyaschenko Agreement after the English version of the contract and in the German translation of it or Gadebuscher contract ) of 13 November 1945, a Soviet- British agreement on the border between Mecklenburg cleanup and Schleswig -Holstein.

Agreement

It was signed at Castle Gadebusch Gadebusch by British Major General Colin Muir Barber (Agent of the headquarters of the British Army of the Rhine ) and the equal- Soviet officer Nikolai Grigoryevich Ljaschtschenko (Agent of the commander of the Red Army ).

Reasons the British occupying power for the exchange of land were the poor accessibility of the members of the British zone of occupation surfaces, and strategic considerations. The British occupying power held for testing: The area east of the Schaalsees is economically pinched, hard to reach and undesirable from a strategic point of view. In the field Dechow and Thurow are poor road conditions, it is strategically unfavorable. The newly added area have good roads and lies strategically well positioned.

Were exchanged territories east of the Ratzeburger of Schaalsees. In this way, the neighboring communities of Ratzeburg Ziethenstraße, Mechow, Baek and Römnitz came on 26 November 1945 the Duchy of Lauenburg and thus to the British occupation zone. They belonged until then to the Soviet occupation zone and the Mecklenburg County Schönberg ( until 1934 part of Mecklenburg -Strelitz ). In exchange, the Lauenburg communities Dechow, big and small Thurow ( districts of the municipality Roggendorfstraße today ) and Lassahn ( district of the city Zarrentin am Schaalsee today ) came to the Soviet occupation zone. The agreement saw that the evacuation of the territories had to be completed on November 28, 1945 by 13 clock time in Berlin.

This exchange was not reversed in the wake of German reunification after 1990.

Resettlement

A result of the agreement was a transfer of population from the discontinued by the British military government area. She put the German inhabitants of the territories that fell into Soviet responsibility, free to stay or go, just as Soviet citizens. Stateless persons were resettled without exception.

However, the British commander Ashworth told the District Administrator of the Duchy of Lauenburg: no farmer (...) is allowed to hold more than one horse, if he prefers to stay on his farm under RUSSIAN control ( ... ) also remained them each farm a cow, a sheep, a pig, a wagon, a plow, a harrow and other equipment. Even the ones who remain were allowed to keep any reserves for more than 30 days. Fishing boats were bringing to the western shore of Schaalsees.

The population of the Lassahn was informed on 14 November 1945 by Dechow and Thurow on 15 November 1945 by the proposed exchange of territory. First of livestock and agricultural equipment were transported. This has already started on 16 November 1945. There British amphibious vehicles were used, also tanks, horse carts and the ferry Stintenburg Peninsula. Alone from Dechow 1,130 cattle, 309 horses and foals, 406 sheep and 554 pigs were taken away.

The resettlement of people started on 23 November 1945 and was finished three days later. The evacuees were housed in the basement Schützenhof and in the Council of Ratzeburg and in the castles Farchau and Tüschenbeck in the refugee transit camp Schmilau. No one was allowed to even look for an accommodation. Only those who could stay with relatives or acquaintances who needed organized accommodation not be accepted. Prerequisite for this, however, was that the mayor of the selected place of residence expressly agreed. In Dechow remained 120 of 1,237 people, in Thurow 79 of 256

On the morning of November 27, 1945, the British military governor made ​​one last sightseeing tour of the vacated area.

The population in Ziethenstraße, Mechow, Baek and Römitz increased significantly. The date 268 residents of Ziethenstraße were added 340; Mechow grew from 104 to 230, the population of Bäk increased by 204 to 454 Römnitz, which until then had 51 inhabitants, grew to 91 people.

At Mecklenburg coincided with the area around Great Thurow, Klein Thurow and Dechow a total area of ​​1460.89 acres, of which 119.65 hectares of forest and 41.42 hectares of water. The area was east of Schaalsees to Lassahn, Bernstorff, Hakendorf, Stintenburg, Stintenburg Hut and Techin 3419.81 hectares with 405.88 hectares of forest and 773.59 hectares of water, which essentially comprised the eastern part of the Schaalsees.

At the British zone an area of ​​about 2,442 hectares fell in the southeastern area of the Ratzeburger with Hohenleuchte, Mechow, Römnitz, Wieting Beck and Ziethenstraße.