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in the years 1939-1945. The regional capital was Marienwerder in West Prussia (now Kwidzyn).

History

Most of

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Royal Prussia was annexed by King Frederick the Great of Prussia in the 1772 First Partition of Poland. The town of Marienwerder, previously in Ducal Prussia, became an administrative capital of the newly acquired territory, which became the Province of West Prussia on 31 January 1773. West Prussia was divided into the regions of Danzig and Marienwerder in 1815, following the Napoleonic Wars. While the governor and provincial authorities were based in Danzig (Gdańsk), the (1772-1943) was in the homonymous town. From 1815 to 1818, West Prussia was reorganised into ''

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'' (or Kreise), within each government region. The Marienwerder Region included the rural districts (''Kreise'') of (1818-1920), (1887-1920), (1772-1945),

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(1818-1945), (1818-1920), (1772-1920), (1818-1920), Marienwerder (1752-1945), (1818-1945), Schlochau (1818-1945), (1818-1920), (1818-1920), (1818-1945), (1818-1920), and (1875-1920). Up until 1920, the Marienwerder Region comprised the urban districts (''Stadtkreise'') of Graudenz (Grudziądz) and Thorn (Toruń), both established on 1 January 1900. The Marienwerder Region was placed under an

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from 1920 to 1922 and was eventually divided, with the western districts included within the newly established Polish Republic as part of the so-called Polish Corridor. The eastern part of Marienwerder that voted to be incorporated within the Weimar Republic was named the Region of West Prussia () while it was joined to the Province of East Prussia from 1922 to 1939, after which the original Marienwerder Region was restored until its dissolution in 1945.

Demographics

Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder had a majority

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population, with a large

minority.

Districts 1818 to 1920

Urban districts

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(1900-1920; 1939-1945), disentangled from Thorn District # Graudenz (1900-1920; 1939-1945), disentangled from Graudenz District

Rural districts

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(1818-1945), based in

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# Löbau (1818-1920; 1939-1945), based in Löbau in West Prussia # Marienwerder (1752-1945), based in Marienwerder in West Prussia # Rosenberg (1818-1945), based in Rosenberg in West Prussia # Schlochau (1818-1945), based in Schlochau # (1818-1920), based in Schwetz # (1818-1920; 1939-1945), based in Strasburg in West Prussia #

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(1818-1945), based in

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Regional presidents

Each of the nineteen ''Regierungsbezirke'' featured a non- legislative governing body called a ''Regierungspräsidium'' or ''Bezirksregierung'' (regional government) headed by a ''Regierungspräsident'' (regional president), concerned mostly with applying state law to administrative decisions on municipalities within their jurisdiction and their umbrella organisations (the

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, Rotterdam * 1814–1823 : Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel the Younger (1775–1843) * 1823–1825 : Johann Carl Rothe (1771–1853) * 1825–1830 :

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(1786–1865) * 1830–1850 : (1785–1854) * 1850–1875 : Botho Heinrich zu Eulenburg (1804–1879) * 1875–1881 : (1829–1909) * 1881–1891 : (1832–1904) * 1891–1901 : (1833–1911) * 1901–1905 : (1853–1930) * 1905–1920 : (1858–1931) * 1939–1945 :

Literature

* Michael Rademacher:
Deutsche Verwaltungsgeschichte Preußen, Provinz Westpreußen
'' (2006) * E. Jacobson: ''Topographisch-statistisches Handbuch für den Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder'', Danzig 1868
Online, Google
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References

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