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Administration of West Prussia before 1919

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1 Danzig district - Regierungsbezirk Danzig 1.1 Berent County 1.2 Danzig City County 1.3 Danzig-Land (Rural) County 1.4 Danziger Höhe County (created in 1887) 1.5 Danziger Niederung County (created in 1887) 1.6 Dirschau County (created in 1887) 1.7 Elbing-Land (Rural) County 1.8 Karthaus County 1.9 Marienburg County 1.10 Neustadt County

Danzig district - Regierungsbezirk Danzig

Governing Presidents of Danzig -Regierungspräsidenten of Danzig

• 1869–1876 — Paul Friedrich Heinrich Gustav von Diest
• 1876–1878 — Franz Otto Theodor von Hoffmann
• 1878–1879 — Heinrich Karl Julius von Achenbach
• 1879–1880 — Karl Adolf August Ernst von Ernsthausen
• 1881–1882 — Wilhelm A. Theodor von Wiendowski "von Saltzwedell"
• 1883–1887 — Konrad Anton Robert Rothe
• 1887–1890 — Adolf Eduard von Heppe
• 1890–1902 — Friedrich Heinrich Ehrenreich
• 1902–1902 — Hans von Holwede
• 1902–1908 — Jaroslaw von Jarotzky
• 1909–1918 — Lothar Foerster

Due to Treaty of Versailles in 1919 the Regierungsbezirk Danzig ceased to exist and was divided between the Allied Territory of Freistadt Danzig, Poland and the Prussian Province Ostpreussen

Berent County

Supervisors/Landräte:

• 1853–1896 — ... Engler
• 1896–1919 — ... Trüstedt

Danzig City County

Lord Mayors/Oberbürgermeister:

• 1862–1890 — Leopold von Winter
• 1891–1896 — Karl Adolf von Baumbach
• 1896–1903 — Clemens G. Ernst Delbruck
• 1903–1910 — Heinrich Otto Ehlers
• 1910–1918 — Heinrich Scholtz
• 1919–1920 — Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Martin Sahm

Danzig-Land (Rural) County

Supervisor/Landrat:

• 1867–1887 - Archibald August von Gramatzki

In 1887, Kreis Danzig Land was divided into Danziger Höhe, Danziger Niederung and Dirschau

Danziger Höhe County (created in 1887)

Supervisors/Landräte:

• 1887–1904 — ... Maurach
• 1904–1915 — Emil Venske
• 1916–1919 — ... von Unger

Danziger Niederung County (created in 1887)

Supervisors/Landräte:

• 1887–1895 — Archibald August von Gramatzki
• 1895–1919 — ... Brandt

Dirschau County (created in 1887)

Supervisors/Landräte:

• 1887–1908 — ... Döhn
• 1909–1919 — ... von Kries

Elbing-Land (Rural) County

Supervisors/Landräte:

• 1868–1879 — ... Bax
• 1879–1883 — ... Birkner
• 1883–1888 — Eugen Karl Hugo Dippe
• 1888–1907 — Rüdiger Etzdorf
• 1907–1925 — Arthur Adolph Graf von Posadowski-Wehner, after 1919 only for the part that remained German

Karthaus County

Supervisors/Landräte:

• 1851–1875 — Georg Kaspar Otto von Kleist
• 1875–1884 — Werner Freiherr von Schleinitz
• 1885 — Ernst Ferdinand Julius Bruno von Schwichow*
• 1885–1893 — ... von Krosigk
• 1893–1901 — ... Keller
• 1901–1910 — Gottfried Hagemann
• 1911–1914 — ... Römhild
• 1915–1919 — ... Simon

Marienburg County

Supervisors/Landräte:

• 1871–1877 — Gustav Gottfried Keil
• 1877–1890 — ... Doehring
• 1890–1895 — ... von Zander
• 1895–1901 — ... von Glasennapp
• 1901–1910 — ... Freiherr Senfft von Pilsach
• 1910–1918 — Gottfried Hagemann
• 1918–1920 — ... von Rönne*, since 1919 only for the part that remained German

Neustadt County

Supervisors/Landräte:

• 1868–1879 — Friedrich Eberhard Vormbaum
• 1879–1881 — ... Wenzel*
• 1881–1893 — ... Gumprecht
• 1893–1907 — Robert Graf von Keyserlingk-Cammerau
• 1907–1919 — Theodor Christian Traugott Graf von Baudissin

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