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Landkreis Sprottau

Former administrative division

51°34′00″N 15°30′00″E / 51.566667°N 15.500000°E / 51.566667; 15.500000

• 1910

0.730 km² (0.282 sq mi)Population

• 1910

39,882 History

• Established

1816

• Disestablished

1945 Today part ofPoland

The Landkreis Sprottau was a district of the German state Prussia from 1816 to 1945. It was part of the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia, before 1919 the Prussian Province of Silesia. In 1932 it was merged with Landkreis Sagan.^[1] Its present-day successors are Powiat Żagański and Powiat Polkowicki. On 1 January 1945 it included:

3 cities, Primkenau (Przemków), Sagan (Żagań) and Sprottau (Szprotawa).
102 municipalities,
4 Gutsbezirke (forests and the military training area Neuhammer am Queis).

Demographics

The district had a majority German population, with a small Polish minority.^[2]

Ethnolinguistic structure in the district^[2]
	1890		1900
German	36,337	98.85%	38,175	97.78%
Polish	307	0.84%	570	1.46%
Bilingual	84	0.23%	124	0.32%
Total	36,759		39,042

History

Municipal constitution

Placenames

Names of two communes were renamed in 1936:

Puschkau → Hirtenau (does not exist)
Tschirndorf → Hammerfeld

District heads

Oskar von Bezold (1932–1933)

Representatives in Provincial Parliament of Lower Silesia

Holders of these political positions were called "Landsrat".^[1]

1811–1831: Kaspar von Knobelsdorff

1831–1857: Alexander Maximilian von Schkopp

1857–1869: Robert von Reder († 1869)

1869–1877: Hans Graf von Kanitz-Podangen (1813–1941)

1877–1890: Günther von Dallwitz (1838–1910)

1890–1910: Henning von Klitzing

1910–1919: Wilhelm Freiherr von Kottwitz

1919–9999: Eichert (Commissar)

1920–1925: Dietrich

1925–1932: Hermann Kranold

1932–1933: Oskar von Bezold

1933–9999: Pintzke

1933–0000: Hans-Walter Friderici

References

^ ^a ^b Rademacher, Michael. "Landkreis Sprottau". verwaltungsgeschichte.de. Michael Rademacher. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
^ ^a ^b 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.