Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt

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Regierungsbezirk Frankfurt
1905 Administrative Map Province of Brandenburg.svg
Map of Brandenburg highlighting the former Regierungsbezirk of Frankfurt (in red)
Country Prussia/German Empire
Province/State Brandenburg/Prussia
Established1815
Disestablished1945
Region seat Frankfurt (Oder)
Area
  Total20,731 km2 (8,004 sq mi)
Population
 (1939)
  Total1,316,590
  Density64/km2 (160/sq mi)
Frankfurt former regional Government House, now Viadrina University, main building. 2006-01 Viadrina2.jpg
Frankfurt former regional Government House, now Viadrina University, main building.

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, roughly corresponding to the Lubusz Voivodeship.

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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 Friedeberg  [ de ] 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 Oder and Western Neisse rivers (the Oder–Neisse line) became part of Poland while the western part fell within the Soviet Zone of occupation in Germany. West of the Oder–Neisse line, the Land of Brandenburg, 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 )
Rural districts ( Kreise [3] )

Regional presidents (Regierungspräsidenten)

Sealing stamp of the Frankfurt Region, Weimar period Siegelmarke Regierung-Frankfurt an der Oder W0204295.jpg
Sealing stamp of the Frankfurt Region, Weimar period

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References

  1. "Statistische Jahrbücher für das Deutsche Reich". DigiZeitschriften. Archived from the original on 19 July 2012. Retrieved 16 August 2009.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 .