Landkreis Sprottau

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. Its present-day successors are Powiat Żagański and Powiat Polkowicki. On 1 January 1945 it included:

• 3 cities, Primkenau (Przemków), Sagan (Å»agań) 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.

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".

1811–1831: Kaspar von Knobelsdorff

1831–1857: Alexander Maximilian von Schkopp

1857–1869: Robert von Reder <small>(† 1869)</small>

1869–1877: Hans Graf von Kanitz-Podangen <small>(1813–1941)</small>

1877–1890: Günther von Dallwitz <small>(1838–1910)</small>

1890–1910: Henning von Klitzing

1910–1919: Wilhelm Freiherr von Kottwitz

1919: Eichert (Commissar)

1920–1925: Dietrich

1925–1932: Hermann Kranold

1932–1933: Oskar von Bezold

1933: Pintzke

1933–: Hans-Walter Friderici

References

External links

• http://www.geschichte-on-demand.de/sprottau.html