[82], In the first days of May, Wehrmacht abandoned Usedom and Wollin islands, and on May 5, the last German troops departed from Sassnitz on the island of Rügen. [59], In 1934, many of the heads of the Pomeranian Nazi-movement were exchanged. [18] This part had been Swedish only until 1720, thereafter it was merged into the Prussian Province of Pomerania (1653-1815). We hope to inspire others to also share their records to help advance genealogical research for everyone. [30], From 1910 to 1912, most of the province was supplied with electricity as the main lines were built. Of the 21 Landrat officials, only five were replaced, while of the three heads of the government regions ("Regierungspräsident") two were replaced (in Stralsund and Köslin) in 1919. [45], When the Treaty of Versailles entered into force on January 10, 1920, the province's eastern frontier became the border to the newly created Second Polish Republic, comprising most of Pomerelia in the so-called Polish Corridor. [37], On March 2, 1850, a law was passed[38] settling the conditions on which peasants and farmers could capitalize their property rights and feudal service duties, and thus get a long-term credit (41 to 56 years to pay back). Search your ancestors in the #1 genealogy database in Continental Europe. Vahlen retired from the Gauleiter position in 1927 and was replaced by Walther von Corswandt, a Pomeranian knight estate holder. Pommern Database: Person Search This database is currently under development, but is still available for searching. this data (ha of farmland substitute for monetary payment) is marked in the source as referring to Regierungsbezirk Stettin and Köslin only; note that the Stralsund district with its Swedish law had a somewhat different standing. Stettin, the former ducal residence, was made capital of the province and also was the administrative center of the Regierungsbezirk Stettin.[18]. Emigration to overseas ended in 1893, when in America the free availability of soil claims ended. 1858: 1,125,000 people, 28% of whom lived in towns. [81], Western part of the former province (Western Pomerania, Vorpommern, red) in modern Germany (grey), Pomeranian part as of 1937 (orange) of the former eastern territories of Germany (dark green) now in post-war Poland, Posen-West Prussia (former Grenzmark Posen-Westpreußen) as of 1937 (orange, bulk in Pomerania since 1938) within the former German territories. 795 of the Trial of Adolf Eichmann. The city boundaries were expanded in 2009 to include the surrou… Following World War I, most of the Prussian provinces Posen and West Prussia became part of the Second Polish Republic. Stettin was abandoned the next day. [76], The invasion of Poland by the Nazi Germany on September 1, 1939, which marked the beginning of World War II, was in part mounted from the province's soil. Arbeitsgemeinschaft pommersche Kirchengeschichte. Gross Krossin (Krosino), Kreis Neustettin, Pommern. With the war going on, food shortages occurred, especially in the winter of 1916/17. He moved the headquarters to Stettin and replaced many of the party officials predominantly with young radicals. Kirchenbuchduplikat, 1792-1874. Municipalities hence elected a Gemeindevorstand (head) and a Gemeindevertretung (communal parliament). Farther Pomerania was cut off from Danzig by the corridor. By then it had been decreed in Berlin that the victims of the round-up should not be sent to Poland but be kept within the so-called Altreich, i.e. The smaller western part became part of the East German State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. [94], Polish seasonal workers were employed in Pomeranian agriculture since the 1890s, initially to replace the emigrants. Gross Mangelmuhle (Medromiez Wielki), Kreis Tuchel, West Prussia . Between 1881 and 1890, 132,100 people emigrated to America; 95,000 of these emigrated between 1881 and 1885. Also, the districts of Schivelbein and Dramburg, formerly belonging to the Neumark, were merged into the new province. As in all of Nazi Germany, the Nazis established totalitarian control over the province by Gleichschaltung. The provinces that came from the former Prussia are colored. The same territory corresponding to 1939 Provinz Pommern east of the Oder-Neisse line (which became part of Poland in 1945) was inhabited as of December 1950 by: Over 90% of the 1950 population were newcomers to the region, with less than 10% residing in German Province of Pomerania already back in August 1939 (so-called autochthons, who had German citizenship before World War II and were granted Polish citizenship after 1945). 1871: 1,431,492 people, 68,7% of those lived in communities with less than 2,000 inhabitants. Hardenberg issued a decree on September 14, 1811, defining the terms by which serfs were to be released (Hardenbergsches Regulierungsedikt). [54], The province also reacted to the availability of new traffic vehicles. Only one young woman from Schneidemühl survived the hell of Auschwitz-Birkenau and the death marches of mid-January 1945. Demmin and Greifswald surrendered on April 30. [52], As a counter-measure, Prussia invested in the Stettin port since 1923. My Pomerania is self-funded. It resembled the territory of the former Duchy of Pomerania, which after the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 had been split between Brandenburg-Prussia and Sweden. The Landtag was responsible for streets, welfare, education, and culture. Of the 498,000 dead, 375,000 were civilians, and 123,000 were Wehrmacht soldiers. In 1933, about 7,800 Jews lived in Pomerania, of which a third lived in Stettin. The farmers reacted by modernizing their equipment, improving the quality of their products, and applying new technical methods. Insufficient evacuation left the population subject to murder, war rape, and plunder by the successors.[16]. If you encounter additional problems with this collection, feel free to report them at support@familysearch.org. [49], In 1920 (changed in 1921 and 1924), the Free State of Prussia adopted a democratic constitution for her provinces. Thanks to this data it is possible to reconstruct the pre-war geographical origin of the post-war population. [81], In Demmin, more than 1,000 people committed mass suicides after the Red Army had conquered the town facing only modest resistance. (1999) say that in 1910, 7,921 Poles lived steadily in the province;[67][68] Skóra (2001) says that in 1925, according to German data, 5,914 Poles lived in the province (1,104 in the Stettin and 4,226 in the Köslin government regions), while the Polish consul "boldly assumed" that over 9000 Poles lived in the province. Modern estimates for just eastern parts of Pommern in early 1800s range between 40,000 (Leszek Belzyt) and 25,000 (Jan Mordawski, Zygmunt Szultka). Before the territorial changes, it had been on the export route from the Katowice (Kattowitz) industrial region in now Polish Upper Silesia. [5], In rural areas, many narrow-gauge railways were built for faster transport of crops. Słupsk Voivodeship was split off from this voivodeship in 1975, there were also territorial exchanges with neighboring voivodeships. [91], Most people emigrated from Regierungsbezirk Köslin, where the population numbers of 1880 were only reached again in 1899. [19] In 1925, the province had an area of 30,208 km2 (11,663 sq mi), with a population of 1,878,780 inhabitants. It is no longer neccessary to sign-in to see our records. [68], On October 1, 1938, the bulk of the former Province of Posen-West Prussia was merged into the Province of Pomerania, adding an area of 5,787 km2 (2,234 sq mi) with a population of 251,000. Search your ancestors in the #1 genealogy database in Continental Europe. [49], Also, counter-revolutionary Pomeranians formed Freikorps participating in fights in the Ruhr area. Hae esivanhempiasi manner-Euroopan #1 sukututkimustietokannasta. Prussian law (Allgemeines Preußisches Landrecht and Preußisches Stadtrecht) was not enforced, and the Swedish jurisdiction with the court in Greifswald was left in place.[83]. The German invasion of Poland in 1939 was launched in part from Pomeranian soil. During this beta test, please report any errors to [email protected] We are working the kinks out so this database can be fully searchable and intuitive. [7], The "Provinzialverband", which included all self-governmental institutions of the province such as the provincial parliament (Provinziallandtag), gained influence on the formerly Berlin-led provincial government: The Provinzialverband would hence elect the "Oberpräsident" (head of the administration) and appoint representatives for the Reichsrat assembly in Berlin. In the Reichstag elections of September 14, 1930, the party gained a significant 24.3% of the Pomeranian votes and thus became the second strongest party, the strongest still being the DNVP, which however was internally divided in the early 1930s. He concludes that "while the deportations of the Jews of Schneidemühl had indeed been planned by the Gestapo to coincide with the terrible events that occurred in Stettin – those actions were not carried out together. From 1918, Pomerania was a province of the Free State of Prussia until it was dissolved in 1945 following World War II, and its territory divided between Poland and Allied-occupied Germany. [3], Tumults arose in 1847 in the towns of Stettin and Köslin due to food shortages, as a result, prices for some foods were fixed. [18], In 1905 the Province of Pomerania had 1,684,326 inhabitants, among them 1,616,550 Protestants, 50,206 Catholics, and 9,660 Jews. [79], On February 14, the remnants of German Army Group Vistula (Heeresgruppe Weichsel) had managed to set up a frontline roughly at the province's southern frontier, and launched a counterattack (Operation Solstice, "Sonnenwende") on February 15, that however stalled already on February 18. [81], On March 20, the Wehrmacht abandoned the last bridgehead on the Oder rivers eastern bank, the Altdamm area. Emilie was born on July 9 1856, in Klaushagen, Neustettin, Pommern, Prussia Germany. [71] In 1939, all Polish organisations in Stettin were disbanded by the authorities. For as little as $3 a year, you can help provide the support we need to keep our website open. Two days later, Wehrmacht surrendered unconditionally to the Red Army. Subsequently, the previous rural structure changed dramatically as farmers, who used this credit to bail out their feudal duties, were now able to self determine how to use their land (so-called "regulated" peasants and farmers, regulierte Bauern). In March 1933, the NSDAP gained 56.3%. The Gauleiter’s personal goal was to be the first in the Reich to declare his Gau Judenrein – cleansed of Jews". Thus, German-held central Farther Pomerania was cut off, and taken after the Battle of Kolberg (March 4 to 18). The default sort is by Locality and Author (the organization which created the records). Streets and canalisation of the towns were modernized. This line left the Oder river north of Gartz (Oder) and included the Stettin and Swinemünde area (Stettiner Zipfel) into the Polish state. Until 1932, the province was subdivided into the government regions (Regierungsbezirk Köslin (eastern part, Farther Pomerania), Stettin (southwestern part, Old Western Pomerania), and Stralsund (northwestern part, Neuvorpommern). [14][15] When Dr. Hildegard Böhme of the Reichsvereinigung had become aware of Gauleiter Schwede-Coburg's plan – and fearing a repetition of the events on the scale of the Stettin deportations – her timely and tireless intervention on behalf of the Reichsvereinigung with the RSHA in Berlin resulted in a modification of the planned deportations of Schneidemühl's Jews. [2], The Hardenberg decree reformed all Prussian territories, which henceforth formed ten (later eight) provinces with similar administrations. Evacuation orders were issued not at all or much too late. Albert was born on December 6 1844, in Grumsdorf, Neustettin, Pommern, Prussia. [2], The province was headed by a governor (Oberpräsident, literally "senior president") with his seat in the capital, Stettin. Yet, Sweden had been one of the most important players in the war and as such, she was awarded some of her territorial gains in Pomerania after the war by the Peace of Westphalia, thwarting Brandenburg-Prussia's ambitions for inheritance of the whole former Duchy of Pomerania. Authors: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [33], With the infrastructural improvements, mass tourism to the Baltic Coast started. Neustettin, Pommern, Prussia. After Wilhelm II's abdication, it was part of the Free State of Prussia. Aiming at a farming career, he studied agriculture at the academy in Greifswald-Eldena. [44], After the Kaiser was forced to resign, the province became part of the Free State of Prussia within the Weimar Republic. [47], On November 12, 1918, a decree[48] was issued allowing farmworkers' unions to negotiate with farmers (Junkers). During the war, two teachers from Polish school: Golisz and Omieczyński were murdered. They had 7 children: Maria Otilia Ditberneer Pinke (born Ditberner), Louise Auguste Dittberner and 5 other children. Search your ancestors in the #1 genealogy database in Continental Europe. It is in Kreis Danziger H�he and the estate is a few kilometers west of Danzig in West Prussia; it was in the Wonneberg Lutheran parish. Twenty weeks after the Nazis seized power, the number of Jewish Pomeranians had already dropped by eight percent. The historical entry for Wulflatzke, Neustettin, Köslin, Pommern, Preussen, including parish and jurisdiction information, in the Meyers Gazetteer of the German Empire also known as Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs. Martin Gilbert, Eilert Herms, Alexandra Riebe. [1], The province was created from the former Prussian Province of Pomerania, which consisted of Farther Pomerania and the southern Western Pomerania, and former Swedish Pomerania. Germany, selected Protestant church books 1518-1921 - at Ancestry.com, index and images ($). During the war, the provincial administrative institutions were subordinate to the military and headed by military officials. The constitution granted a number of civil rights to the Prussian population and enhanced the self-government of the provinces. Births or christenings, 1837-1870. The results were mixed. If you love My Pomerania, please consider saying “thank you” with a small donation. 1993.A.059). 1907: 440,000 people born in the province lived in other areas of Germany. He based his statement on doc. Landkreis Fürstenthum comprised the earlier secular possessions of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Kammin prince-bishops, and was ruled by administrators from the Pomeranian ducal house since the aftermath of the Reformation till 1650. In Stettin, heavy industry was settled, making it the only industrial center of the province. The remainders of these provinces formed the province of Posen-West Prussia, combining small German-settled regions all along the new German-Polish border (Grenzmark meaning border march). In 1938, Grenzmark Posen-Westpreußen (southeastern part, created from the former Prussian Province Posen-West Prussia) was merged into the province. [25][26], Throughout its existence, the province was a stronghold of the Conservative Parties. [34], Already in 1807, Prussia issued a decree (Steinsches Oktoberedikt) abolishing serfdom. Between 1871 and 1880, 61,700 people emigrated to America. In Stettin-Bredow, at the site of the bankrupt Vulcan shipyards, the Nazis set up a short-lived "wild" concentration camp from October 1933 to March 1934, where SA maltreated their victims. [49], The provincial and county parliaments (Landtag and Kreistag) were hence elected directly by the population, including women, in free and secret votes. Please expand the article to include this information. Carl had 6 siblings: Mathilda Bertha Emilie Schneid (born Abraham), Edith (Ida) Augusta Kurz (born Abraham) and 4 other siblings. This led to tensions between Brandenburg-Prussia and Sweden in Pomerania until Sweden lost her Western Pomeranian possessions in 1720 (Stettin government region) and 1815 (Stralsund government region). The Pomeranian Nazi party was founded by students of the University of Greifswald in 1922, when the NSDAP was officially forbidden. A subordinate Kommunallandtag only existed for Regierungsbezirk Stralsund, until it was abolished in 1881. The settlers originated in Pomerania itself, Saxony, and Thuringia, also refugees from the former Province of Posen settled in the province. The other two thirds were living all over the province, Jewish communities numbering more than 200 people were in Stettin, Kolberg, Lauenburg in Pomerania, and Stolp. By the terms of the Potsdam Agreement, Western Pomerania east of the Oder–Neisse line became part of Poland. The number was declining due to Germanisation. [77], According to Kozłowski & Krzywicki (1988), around 56,000 Polish POWs were located in Pomerania after the invasion, and soon Germany stripped them of their status (against international law) turning them into forced labourers;in April 1940 they were 82.417 of them in Pomerania, with the number reaching 116.330 Polish forced labourers in 1944 September[78]. Plants were built since 1898. The number declined to between 35,000 and 23,000 (Zygmunt Szultka, Leszek Belzyt) in the years 1827–1831. This law made way for the establishment of Rentenbank credit houses and Rentengut farms. The provincial Landtag (Provinziallandtag) was elected by the county representative assemblies (Kreistag for counties, Stadtverordnetenversammlung for town districts) for a six years' term. 1919: On October 8, 1919, the province had 1,787,179 inhabitants. In 1848, 126.8 Prussian miles of new streets had been built. Your support helps us continue producing free content. Between 1871 and 1895, 242,505 people emigrated from the province, primarily from 1880 to 1885 (95,000 emigrants). [49], Pommerscher Landbund units participated in the nationalist Kapp Putsch in Berlin, 1920. Search your ancestors in the #1 genealogy database in Continental Europe. Gross Pallubin (Palubin), Kreis Berent, West Prussia . Despite low temperatures, the carriages were not heated. Genealogical Department (Main Author) Format: Manuscript/Manuscript on Film Language: English Publication: Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1975 Physical: on 1 microfilm reel ; 16 mm. By the terms of the Potsdam Agreement, the Grenzmark became part of Poland. Decrees were issued that shifted all issues formerly in responsibility of the parliament to the Provinzialausschuß commission, and furthermore, shifted the power to decide on these issues from the Provinzialausschuß to the Oberpräsident official, although he had to hear the Provinzialrat commission before. [18] From 1815, the Stettin government region comprised only the southern parts of Western Pomerania (Old Western Pomerania, i.e. On the one hand, 130,858 hectares (1,308.58 km2; 505.25 sq mi) of farmland were settled with 8,734 new-build settlements[55] until 1933. The part of the province of Pomerania which had become Polish was re-organized as Szczecin Voivodeship after the war, from which the eastern part was split off as Koszalin Voivodeship in 1950. The other traditional waterways and ports of the province, however, declined. The Regierungsbezirk is a government district that is in hierarchy between the State and Kreis level. Thus on Wednesday, February 21, 1940 – merely one week after the Stettin deportations – one hundred and sixty Jews were arrested in Schneidemühl, while mass arrests of Jews took place concurrently within an 80 km (50 mi) radius of Schneidemühl, in the surrounding administrative districts of Köslin, Stettin and the former Grenzmark Posen-Westpreussen, whereby three hundred and eighty-four Jews were seized by the Gestapo. 483, Bundesarchiv Berlin, and USHMM Archives: RG-14.003M; Acc. They had 8 children: Caroline Wilhelmine Henriette Janke, Johann Friedrich Janke and 6 other children. The latter two are known to have planned a Schneidemühl-Aktion as a revenge for the earlier interference by the Reichsvereinigung in the Stettin deportations. [72], Repressions intensified after Adolf Hitler came to power and led to closing of the school. In 1936, four members of the DNVP were tried for founding a monarchist organization. Add to Print List Remove from Print List Notes. After the war, ethnic Germans were expelled from Poland and the area was re-settled with Poles]. Under th… [14], Oberpräsident von Halfern retired in 1933, and with him one third of the Landrat and Oberbürgermeister (mayor) officials. file 75 C Re1, No. [17] Currently, most of the territory of the province lies within the West Pomeranian Voivodeship, which share the same city—now Szczecin—as its capital. [85], Between 1871 and 1914, the prime characteristic of the province's demography was migration from the rural areas, first to urban centers (Landflucht), then to destinations in other German provinces and overseas (Ostflucht). [39], From 1891 to 1910, 4,731 Rentengut farms were set up, most (2,690) with a size of 10 to 25 hectares (0.10 to 0.25 km2; 0.039 to 0.097 sq mi). The reason for creating a Regierungsbezirk as small as Stralsund was that Neuvorpommern had a somewhat different history than the rest of Pomerania. From 1867 to 1874, he bought and expanded the Varzin estates. Based on two laws of June 5[22] and July,[23] 1823, the Landtag was constituted by 25 lords and knights, 16 representatives of the towns, and eight from the rural communities. The Stapo, the State police in Schneidemühl, however, played its own part in the planned round-up of the city's Jews by giving in to the local Nazi Party cadre and to the orders of the city's fanatic Mayor Friedrich Rogausch, in concert with the Gauleiter. In 1938, this province was dissolved and partitioned between Pomerania, Brandenburg and Silesia. [61], Besides the repressions Jews had to endure in all Nazi Germany, including the destruction of the Pomeranian synagogues on November 9, 1938 (Reichskristallnacht), all male Stettin Jews were deported to Oranienburg concentration camp after this event and kept there for several weeks. [18] The Stralsund region was merged into the Stettin region in 1932. Until 1872, the area kept its territorial integrity, before it was dissolved into smaller administrative units. Peter Simonstein Cullman in "History of the Jewish Community of Schneidemühl: 1641 to the Holocaust" and jewishgen.org say that the Jews of Schneidemühl were not "deported together with the more than 1,000 Jews of Stettin [Region] (who were subsequently sent to Piaski, near Lublin in Poland)", based on lack of evidence in the archives of Reichsvereinigung der Juden in Deutschland (cf. Architektura Sakralna Pomorza Zachodniego - Pictures of former Pommern churches in Poland. [21], The new parliament (Landtag) assembled first on October 3, 1824. (titled "Ablösung der Reallasten und die Regulierung der gutsherrlichen und bäuerlichen Verhältnisse"), "Landgemeindeordnung" for the eastern provinces of Prussia, Yad Vashem Studies, Yad ṿa-shem, rashut ha-zikaron la-Shoʼah ṿela-gevurah, Yad Vashem Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, 1996 In the Lublin area under Kurt Engel's regime, the people were subjected to inhumane treatment, starvation and outright murder. Gross Podel (Podole Wielkie), Kreis Stolp, Pommern The largest group among new inhabitants were Poles expelled from areas of Eastern Poland annexed by the Soviet Union. Only a few survived the war.[63][64]. [8] As in the previous Kingdom of Prussia, Pomerania was a stronghold of the nationalist conservatives[9] who continued in the Weimar Republic. Those rounded up ranged from two-year-old children to ninety-year-old men. [18] The provincial capital was Stettin (now Szczecin), the Regierungsbezirk capitals were Köslin (now Koszalin), Stettin, Stralsund and Schneidemühl (now Piła), respectively. Other railways followed: Stettin–Köslin (1859), Angermünde–Stralsund and Züssow–Wolgast (1863), Stettin–Stolp (1869), and a connection with Danzig (1870). No food had been allowed to be taken along. In March 1935, 55 priests were arrested. The Köslin government region (Regierungsbezirk Köslin) was the administrative name for the region of Farther Pomerania (Hinterpommern) along with the smaller region of Lauenburg and Bütow Land (easternmost part).[18]. [49], On May 15, 1919, street fights and plunder occurred following Communist assemblies in Stettin. Evangelische Kirche Klaushagen (Kr. It was in 1846 dissolved into smaller administrative units. Vorpommern was soon dropped from the federal state's name, and after the GDR states were abolished, the coastal Western Pomeranian Landkreis districts became part of Bezirk Rostock whereas the mainland Landkreis districts became part of Bezirk Neubrandenburg. The newspaper Pommersche Tagespost was banned in 1935 after printing an article of monarchist Hans Joachim von Rohr (1888–1971). [79], The Pomeranian Wall was renovated in the summer of 1944, and in the fall all men between sixteen and sixty years of age who had not yet been drafted were enrolled into Volkssturm units. [24], Subordinate to the provincial Landtag were two Kommunallandtag assemblies, one for former Swedish Pomerania (Western Pomerania north of the Peene River) and one for the former Prussian part. These documents are not "mine" or "yours." Köslin government region comprised nine counties, Stettin government region thirteen, and Stralsund government region four (identical with the former Swedish Ämter (districts)). Of those, Ewald von Kleist-Schmenzin had contacted Winston Churchill in 1938 to inform about the work of the German opposition to the Nazis, and was executed in April 1945. Since 1943, the province became a target of allied air raids. The name Pomerania comes from Slavic po more, which means "Land at the Sea". Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Mein Neustettin – eine Perle Hinterpommerns, Szczecinecki Portal Historyczny (Neustettin History Portal), How to Easily Translate Anything for Genealogy Research with These Digital Tools, 6 Tips for Organizing and Preserving Your Research, Fundraising Campaign for Upgrading Our Infrastructure, Hackenwalde, Naugard – Photos from June 2019. Description . 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