Posen-West Prussia
The Prussian province of Posen- West Prussia border, formed from the remaining western parts of the former provinces of Posen and West Prussia, consisted of the Association of the German Empire from 1922 until 1938.
- 5.1 Oberpräsident
- 5.2 municipal parliament
- 5.3 Provincial Governors (Posen - West Prussia )
Fit and size
Seat of the Higher President was Schneidemühl.
Seat of the provincial governor was Meseritz.
- Area: 7695 km ²
- Population: 332 443 (43 per km ²)
The predominantly agricultural province had great significance for the traffic on the Prussian Eastern Railway by the Polish Corridor to East Prussia and Poland.
History
In December 1918 and January 1919, the Greater Poland Uprising had brought most of the Polish heartland Greater Poland, which was since the Second Partition of Poland as a province of Posen under Prussian rule again in Polish hands. The Chief Minister and President of the Government in Poznan could only be active in the Polish-occupied part.
In the preliminary German still remaining edge portions of the Province of Posen in the south, west and north of the provincial government in Bromberg sat down next to his own powers provisionally true also of the Upper President and the government of President poses.
The District President at Bromberg moved its headquarters to Schneidemühl and took there on November 20, 1919 his new job as a government body for the County Grenzmark West Prussia poses on. This managed so that any remaining provisionally in Germany circles and debris from the provinces of Posen and West Prussia west of the Vistula and the Polish Corridor.
On 20 January 1920, the Treaty of Versailles formally joined into force.
The government office in Pila was from January 11, 1921 the name of border Posen- West Prussia. This development came on July 1, 1922 through the Ostmark law to conclude that the new Prussian province of Posen- West Prussia border einrichtete with the seat of the Higher President in Pila. On 1 August 1922, the government district Schneidemühl was formed for the entire area of the province yet.
Since the actual departure of the Upper President Hans of meibomian after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, the province was also managed from the top presidents of the province of Brandenburg in personal union.
On October 1, 1938, the province was dissolved.
The circles Bomst ( partially ) and Mrs. city were the province of Silesia, the circles Bomst (rest), and Meseritz Schwerin ( Warta ) assigned to the province of Brandenburg, and the remaining area of the Province of Pomerania.
Within the province of Pomerania, the area with the circles of Pomerania and Pommern and the reclassified from the province of Brandenburg circles Arnswalde and Friedeberg Nm was. declared a new independent government district, which had its seat in Pila. In order to preserve the tradition of the dissolved province, his term government district boundary Posen- West Prussia was settled.
After the Second World War the area was placed under Polish administration; the German population was expelled.
Administrative divisions
Since August 2nd, 1919, the German remaining residual circles Czarnikau, Filehne and Kolmar were i poses for the time being co-managed, by an official with the office of the Administrator in Schönlanke.
The Government Office for the County Grenzmark West Prussia, Posen supervised from November 20, 1919:
- Of the province of West Prussia the circles
- Of the province of Posen, the circles
On December 15, 1919, the remaining circles Czarnikau, Filehne and Kolmar poses for new networks county were combined with the seat of government in Schönlanke.
The Prussian province of Posen- West Prussia border comprised from 1922 to 1938 the administrative district of Schneidemühl with the appropriate number of urban and rural districts, which arises from the following list.
Circles in the border province of Posen- West Prussia in 1938
Region of Schneidemühl