East Upper Silesia
As the eastern Upper Silesia Upper Silesia was named, which was ceded to Poland after the First World War by virtue of the Treaty of Versailles and after a plebiscite and riots on June 20 in 1922 by the German Reich. It comprised a substantial part of the Upper Silesian industrial district. In him were, among others, the cities and industrial sites Katowice, Chorzów, Laurahütte, Myslowitz, Pless, Ruda, Schwientochlowitz, Tarnowitz and parts of the district Bytom.
History
- Poland before the partition of Upper Silesia
- German Empire without the Upper Silesian plebiscite area
- Czechoslovakia including Hultschiner Ländchen
- Unexploded part of Upper Silesia to Poland
- Remaining in Germany part of Upper Silesia
As a result of the uprisings in Upper Silesia, in which numerous Polish insurgents involved from the troops Wojciech Korfanty who " were situated in Silesia ," began the occupation of part of Upper Silesia, which was to be ceded to Korfanty ideas to Poland. Even a large number of Polish priest came from other countries including America to Upper Silesia to agitate against Germany. Pastor Joseph Kubis sent a petition to the Cardinal and to the Prince Bishop's Curia in Wroclaw and asked for help because of the excesses of the foreign minister.
On 20 March 1921, a plebiscite was held. This provided for the voting area as a whole, a 60 - % majority for Germany ( proportion of votes: 700 605 for Germany, 479 359 for Poland). Then the voting area was divided by the German -Polish Convention on Upper Silesia ( Geneva Convention ) of 15 May 1922 area ratio 2:1. When the German Empire remained West Upper Silesia, while the area and population larger body, but especially more agriculturally structured, sparsely populated part of the voting area. With Upper Silesia, most of the Upper Silesian industrial district went to Poland. In the ceded territory had a total of a 60 - % majority voted for Poland, where many cities and industrial towns, especially Katowice and Chorzow, some considerable majorities for Germany had.
The new demarcation, the uniformly grown Upper Silesian industrial area was intersected. The boundary separating blast furnaces of its processing companies and vice versa. From 67 coal mines 53 went to Poland as well as the majority of Zinkerzgruben and the entire coal chemical industry. The 22 large companies in the mining industry were affected by the disruption of their half acquis. This was particularly the Upper Silesian Railway Commodities AG and the Upper Silesian Iron Industry Ltd., whose holdings now West, lay partly in German, partly in Polish Upper Silesia. Of the approximately 3000 km2 ostoberschlesischen coal deposits were 2200 km2 in Poland. Of an estimated 80 to 90 million tons of Upper Silesian coal reserves Poland got 90%. Three of the eight Upper Silesian iron and steel enterprises with 37 blast furnaces remained with 18 blast furnaces in Germany.
Upper Silesia was formed in the Second Polish Republic, together with the Cieszyn Silesia the Autonomous Silesian Voivodeship. In the Polish campaign in September 1939, the Wehrmacht conquered Upper Silesia, which was connected to the " Greater German Reich" and thus again in Upper Silesia, or the Gau Silesia came up.