Kattowitz (district)

The district of Katowice ( Katowice District until 1899 ) was from 1873 to 1922, a Prussian administrative district in Upper Silesia. During the German occupation of Poland from 1939 to 1945 he was established as part of the district of Katowice again.

1910 included the county Katowice city Myslowitz and 42 more municipalities and estate districts.

  • 2.1 Country Councils 1873-1922
  • 2.2 Country Commissioner from 1939
  • 2.3 Country Councils 1939-1945

Administrative history

Kingdom of Prussia

The circle Katowice originated in 1873 from parts of the former circle Bytom. He belonged to the administrative district of Opole in the Prussian province of Silesia. On April 1, 1899, the Municipality of Katowice retired from the district Katowice and formed henceforth a separate urban district. This changed the name of the district in the district of Katowice Katowice. After the plebiscite in Upper Silesia, Katowice, the district was ceded to Poland in 1922.

Poland

The county was now Katowice Katowice as to the Polish state.

German occupation of Poland 1939-1945

In the Polish campaign the Polish Katowice district was occupied on 3 September 1939 by the Wehrmacht and 26 November 1939, under the name of Katowice part of the newly formed government district in the province of Silesia Katowice. November 20, 1939, the district Katowice by the county Pless communities Panewnik and Petrowitz. January 18, 1941, the province of Silesia was dissolved. From the previous government districts of Katowice and Opole Silesia, the new province was formed. In January 1945, the district became Polish again after it was liberated by the Red Army.

District administrators

District Administrators 1873-1922

Land commissioner from 1939

District Administrators 1939-1945

Communal Constitution

The circle Katowice initially divided into municipalities, rural communities and independent estate districts.

After the invasion of Poland the towns Laurahütte and Myslowitz and all the other villages of the district during the period from February to September in 1940, assumed in three waves of force in the Reich Germans municipal regulations dated 30 January 1935 which provided for the enforcement of the leader principle at the community level. Estate districts no longer existed.

For the entire district area was the county law applicable in the incorporated Eastern territories.

Place names (1939-1945)

At an official award purely German place names in Polish until 1939 the eastern part of the circle, it is not come until the war ended. This, however, was already prepared to the individual. These were to "improvements" of the provisionally in force since 1939 names from 1918, for example:

  • Baingow: Beingau,
  • Bielschowitz: Biel pit,
  • Brzenskowitz: Brenndorf,
  • Halemba: Heinrich Hammer,
  • Kochlowitz: Kochelberg,
  • Lipine: Ruberg,
  • Makoszowy: Maxenau,
  • Michalkowitz: Langenort O.S.,
  • Myslowitz: Müsselwitz,
  • Upper Lazisk: Prince Mine
  • Orzegow: Gotthard field,
  • Panewnik: Pan village,
  • Petrowitz: Peter Hain ( Kr Katowice),
  • Przelaika: Hammersfeld O.S.,
  • Ruda: Wolfgang O.S.,
  • Schoppinitz: Schoppenau,
  • Schwientochlowitz: Stahlhof.

Personalities

  • Michael Jary (* September 24 1906 in Laurahütte ), German composer
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