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Administration of West Prussia before 1919

Administration of West Prussia before 1919

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The Administration of West Prussia before 1919 consisted of the following officials:

Danzig Region

Regional Presidents of Danzig - Regierungspräsidenten von Danzig

  • 18691876 Paul Friedrich Heinrich Gustav von Diest
  • 18761878 Franz Otto Theodor von Hoffmann
  • 18781879 Heinrich Karl Julius von Achenbach
  • 18791880 Karl Adolf August Ernst von Ernsthausen
  • 18811882 Wilhelm A. Theodor von Wiendowski "von Saltzwedell"
  • 18831887 Konrad Anton Robert Rothe
  • 18871890 Adolf Eduard von Heppe
  • 18901902 Friedrich Heinrich Ehrenreich
  • 19021902 Hans von Holwede
  • 19021908 Jaroslaw von Jarotzky
  • 19091918 Lothar Foerster

Due to Treaty of Versailles of 1919 the Danzig Region ceased to exist and was ceded in 1920 to the Free City of Danzig, the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and the Prussian Province of East Prussia.[1]

Berent County

Supervisors/Landräte:

  • 18531896 ... Engler
  • 18961919 ... Trüstedt

Danzig City County

Lord Mayors/Oberbürgermeister:

  • 18621890 Leopold von Winter
  • 18911896 Karl Adolf von Baumbach
  • 18961903 Clemens G. Ernst Delbruck
  • 19031910 Heinrich Otto Ehlers
  • 19101918 Heinrich Scholtz
  • 19191920 Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Martin Sahm

Danzig-Land (Rural) County

Supervisor/Landrat:

  • 18671887 - Archibald August von Gramatzki

In 1887, Kreis Danzig Land was divided into Danziger Höhe, Danziger Niederung and Dirschau.[citation needed]

Danziger Höhe County (created in 1887)

Supervisors/Landräte:

  • 18871904 ... Maurach
  • 19041915 Emil Venske
  • 19161919 ... von Unger

Danziger Niederung County (created in 1887)

Supervisors/Landräte:

  • 18871895 Archibald August von Gramatzki
  • 18951919 ... Brandt

Dirschau County (created in 1876)

Supervisors/Landräte:

  • 18761887 ... von Sanden
  • 18871908 ... Döhn
  • 19091919 ... von Kries

Elbing-Land (Rural) County

Supervisors/Landräte:

  • 18681879 ... Bax
  • 18791883 ... Birkner
  • 18831888 Eugen Karl Hugo Dippe
  • 18881907 Rüdiger Etzdorf
  • 19071925 Arthur Adolph Graf von Posadowski-Wehner, after 1919 only for the part that remained German[citation needed]

Karthaus County

Supervisors/Landräte:

  • 18331851 Georg Kaspar Otto von Kleist
  • 18751884 Werner Freiherr von Schleinitz
  • 1885 Ernst Ferdinand Julius Bruno von Schwichow*
  • 18851893 ... von Krosigk
  • 18931901 ... Keller
  • 19011910 Gottfried Hagemann
  • 19111914 ... Römhild
  • 19151919 ... Simon

Marienburg County

Supervisors/Landräte:

  • 18711877 Gustav Gottfried Keil
  • 18771890 ... Doehring
  • 18901895 ... von Zander
  • 18951901 ... von Glasennapp
  • 19011910 ... Freiherr Senfft von Pilsach
  • 19101918 Gottfried Hagemann
  • 19181920 ... von Rönne*, since 1919 only for the part that remained German[citation needed]

Neustadt County

Supervisors/Landräte:

  • 18681879 Friedrich Eberhard Vormbaum
  • 18791881 ... Wenzel*
  • 18811893 ... Gumprecht
  • 18931907 Robert Graf von Keyserlingk-Cammerau
  • 19071919 Theodor Christian Traugott Graf von Baudissin

Marienwerder Region

Regional Presidents of Marienwerder - Regierungspräsidenten von Marienwerder

Due to Treaty of Versailles of 1919 the Marienwerder Region ceased to exist and its territory was ceded partially to the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship and the Prussian Provinces of East Prussia and Posen-West Prussia.[citation needed]


References

  1. Hassel, Georg (1819). Vollstandige und neueste Erdbeschreibung der Preussischen Monarchie und des Freistaates Krakaw (in German). Geographische Institut.

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