Until 1919 Garnsee had belonged to Kreis Marienwerder in the administrative district of Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder in the province of West Prussia, from 1919 to 1939 in Regierungsbezirk Westpreußen of the province of East Prussia and from October 26, 1939, to 1945 in Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder of the province of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia.
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The two most important cessions of territory were the loss of Alsace-Lorraine to France and of a large stretch of territory in West Prussia, Posen, and Upper Silesia to Poland.
The Przechówko church in West Prussia, the mother church of Alexanderwohl, was composed of Mennonites who settled near Schwetz and Culm on the Vistula River.
Schultz married Hella Fanny Gertrude Suhr (born 24 April 1893 Grünfelde; died 2 September 1952 in Düsseldorf-Benrath) on 4 April 1914 at Green Field at Stuhm in West Prussia.
Domański was a fighter for the rights of the Polish minority in Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia, at the time a Prussian province on the border of Germany and Poland, as well as for the rights of Polish emigrants in the Ruhr area.
Ottwalt was born Ernst Gottwalt Nicolas in Zippnow, today Sypniewo, in the district of Deutsch Krone in the former West Prussia.
It was named by its early German settlers for their old home town of Friedheim, Germany, a small town in the Posen region of West Prussia.
Theodor Georg Knorr (born November 13, 1859 in Ruda, West Prussia; died April 15, 1911 in Davos, Switzerland), was an engineer and entrepreneur on the field of railroad technology and founder of the company Knorr-Bremse.
She was ordered on 8 June 1942, laid down on 7 August 1943 in Danzig, West Prussia.
Krause was born in Bönhof, West Prussia, (Benowo, Poland), the youngest of five children.
Marwitz was born in Tuchlin, West Prussia to Alexander von der Marwitz and Marianne née Wysocki.
In 1850 he leased lands in Artas to the Mennonite Peter Claaßen (1809–1865) and his brother Isaac (1815–1850) from Tiegen in West Prussia (a part of today's Nowy Dwór Gdański), whose families moved to Artas but left again between 1851 and 1853 for Jaffa.
Born the son of a Prussian officer in Radmannsdorf, West Prussia (present-day Trzebiełuch, Poland), Strecker in 1905 joined the infantry regiment No. 152 of the German Army at Marienburg in the rank of a Leutnant, promoted to Hauptmann (captain) in World War I.
In 1848 von Eichhorn, the Prussian minister of worship and education, called Lorenz to Marienwerder in West Prussia as member of the government district council and of the school-board.
The Ostflucht (flight from the East) was a movement by residents of the former eastern territories of Germany, such as East Prussia, West Prussia, Silesia and Province of Posen beginning around 1850, to the more industrialized western German Rhine and Ruhr provinces.
Paul Boldt (1885, Christfelde, West Prussia - 1921, Freiburg im Breisgau) was one of the poets of German Expressionism.
People's Libraries Society (Polish: Towarzystwo Czytelni Ludowych, TCL) was an educational society established in 1880 for the Prussian partition of Poland (active in the regions of Greater Poland or the Grand Duchy of Poznan, Pomerania, West Prussia, and Silesia).
Of the territories annexed, some were attached to the already existing Gaue East Prussia and Silesia (later Upper Silesia), while from others new Reichsgaue Danzig-West Prussia and Wartheland were constituted.
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Some smaller territories were incorporated directly into the already existing Gaue East Prussia and Silesia, while the bulk of the land was used to create new Reichsgaue Danzig-West Prussia and Wartheland.
The forces of the Polish Military Organisation were able to oust the German administration from the bulk of the Greater Polish lands, whereafter the Posen governor (Landeshauptmann) Ernst von Heyking was forced to retire to Meseritz (Międzyrzecz) and de facto only ruled over the far western, predominantly German settled districts at the border with the adjacent Prussian provinces of Pomerania, Brandenburg and Silesia.
In 1938 the districts of Arnswalde and Friedeberg (Neumark) were merged into a new district called Posen-West Prussia frontier district, which was transferred from Brandenburg to the adjacent more northerly Province of Pomerania.
After Poland was overrun, such militias were involved in war crimes perpetrated on Polish civilians in West Prussia.
Altenburg was born in Schneidemühl, Posen-West Prussia (today Piła, Poland) and was conscripted as a Marinehelfer (Navy aide) in 1944 serving at Heligoland.
Before 1945 the area was part of Grenzmark Posen-West Prussia Germany, although Zakrzewo had a very strong and active Polish minority, headed by the parson of a local parish, Bolesław Domański.