Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt | |
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Country | Prussia/German Empire |
Province/State | Brandenburg/Prussia |
Established | 1815 |
Disestablished | 1945 |
Region seat | Frankfurt (Oder) |
Area | |
• Total | 20,731 km2 (8,004 sq mi) |
Population (1939) | |
• Total | 1,316,590 |
• Density | 64/km2 (160/sq mi) |
The Frankfurt Region was a government region in the Prussian Province of Brandenburg between 1815 and 1945. Its administrative capital was Frankfurt (Oder). Today its western part is in the State of Brandenburg while the eastern part, following frontier changes agreed by the Soviet Union in 1945, is part of Poland.
It was created in 1815, when Prussia reorganised its internal administration. It comprised the mostly rural eastern part of Brandenburg, including the New March and Lower Lusatia. From 1871 Prussia itself was part of the newly founded German Empire.
In 1938 the districts of Arnswalde and were disentangled from the Frankfurt Region and merged into the new government region called Frontier of Posen-West Prussia, which was incorporated into the Province of Pomerania. At the same time the districts of Meseritz and Schwerin (Warthe), were transferred out of what had previously been defined as the Province of Posen-West Prussia, now becoming part of the Frankfurt Region.
In aggregate these changes reduced the land area of the Frankfurt Region from 20,731 km2 to 18,390 km2.[1]
In 1945 the part of the region to the east of the River Oder became part of Poland while the western part fell within the Soviet Zone of occupation in Germany. West of the Oder, the Land of Brandeburg, created in 1946, was not administratively subdivided into "government regions". Three years later, however, the newly evolving East German state undertook further administrative reforms in 1952 and the western areas of the former Frankfurt Region became part of the new Frankfurt Bezirk (district).
Demographics[]
According to the Prussian census of 1890, the Frankfurt Region had a population of 1,137,157, of which 1,090,794 (95.92%) spoke German, 36,720 (3.23%) spoke Sorbian, 4,813 (0.42%) spoke Polish, 413 (0.04%) spoke Czech, and 3,993 (0.35%) identified as bilingual (speaking German and another language).[2]
Administrative Districts[]
- Urban districts (Stadtkreise)
- Cottbus/Chóśebuz (1886–1950, and from 1954; 1947–1952, and from 1990 part of Brandenburg state)
- Forst (Lusatia)/Baršć (1897–1950; quarters west of the Oder merged in Cottbus district; from 1947 part of Brandenburg state)
- Frankfurt upon Oder (till 1827, 1877–1950, and from 1952; 1947–1952, and from 1990 part of Brandenburg state)
- Guben (1884–1950; quarters west of the Oder merged in Cottbus district; from 1947 part of Brandenburg state)
- Landsberg upon Warthe (1892–1945)
- Neuwedell (till 1908), thereafter in Arnswalde (1818–1945; from 1938 part of Pomerania province), based in
- Calau (1818–1950; from 1947 part of Brandenburg state), based in
- Cottbus/Chóśebuz (1818–1952; from 1947 part of Brandenburg state), based in
- Crossen upon Oder (1818–1945), based in
- (till 1836; merged in Königsberg district), based in Küstrin
- Friedeberg in the New March (1816–1945; from 1938 part of Pomerania province), based in
- Guben (1818–1950; from 1947 part of Brandenburg state), based in
- Königsberg in the New March (1816–15 March 1946, remainder west of the Oder merged into , Lebus and ), based in
- Landsberg upon Warthe (1818–1945), based in
- Frankfurt upon Oder (1816–1950; from 1947 part of Brandenburg state), based in
- Luckau (1816–1952; from 1947 part of Brandenburg state), based in
- Lübben in Spreewald/Lubin (Błota) (1816–1952; in 1835 Beeskow area ceded to ; from 1947 part of Brandenburg state), based in
- Meseritz (1818–1945; till 1938 part of Posen-West Prussia), based in Meseritz
- Zielenzig (1873–1945; partitioned from Sternberg district), based in
- Schwerin (Warthe) (1887–1945; till 1938 part of Posen-West Prussia), based in Schwerin upon Warthe
- Soldin (1818–1945), based in
- Sorau in Lower Lusatia (1816–1 April 1946, remainder west of the Oder merged into Cottbus, Forst and Spremberg districts), based in
- Spremberg (1818–1993; in 1825 southern area ceded to the Silesian ; 1947–1952, and from 1990 part of Brandenburg state), based in
- Zielenzig (till 1852), thereafter in Drossen , (1816–1873; partitioned into Ost- and Weststernberg), based in
- Drossen (till 1904), thereafter in Reppen , (1873–1945; partitioned from Sternberg district), based in
- Züllichau ; (1818–1945), based in
Regional presidents (Regierungspräsidenten)[]
- 1848–1849:
- 1850–1851:
- 1851–1855:
- 1856–1862:
- 1862–1867:
- 1867–1873:
- 1890–1902:
- 1902–1903:
- 1903–1906:
- 1906–1908:
- 1908–1918: Count
- 1918–1919:
- 1919–1930:
- 1930–1932:
- 1932–1933:
- 1933–1935:
- 1935–1936:
- 1937–1945:
External links[]
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References[]
- ^ "Statistische Jahrbücher für das Deutsche Reich". DigiZeitschriften. Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
- ^ Belzyt, Leszek (1998). Sprachliche Minderheiten im preussischen Staat: 1815 - 1914 ; die preußische Sprachenstatistik in Bearbeitung und Kommentar. Marburg: Herder-Inst. ISBN 978-3-87969-267-5.
- ^ As of 1939 Nazi centralism levelled terminological regional peculiarities and Prussian rural Kreise were —— like their non-Prussian comparable administrative units — all uniformly termed as Landkreise.
- Frankfurt (Oder)
- Regions of Brandenburg
- 1815 establishments in Prussia
- States and territories established in 1815
- Government regions of Prussia
- States and territories disestablished in 1945
- Former subdivisions of Brandenburg
- 1945 disestablishments in Germany
- Former government regions of Germany