Category:Regierungsbezirk Westpreußen

**West Prussia Government Region**
	1920-1939
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Instance of	government region of Prussia;
Location	East Prussia; Free State of Prussia; Prussia;
Capital	Kwidzyn;
Inception	1920;
Dissolved, abolished or demolished date	1939;
Replaces	Marienwerder Government Region;
Replaced by	Marienwerder Government Region;
Different from	West Prussia;
Said to be the same as	Powiśle
	53° 44′ 09″ N, 18° 55′ 51″ E
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Deutsch: Der Regierungsbezirk Westpreußen mit Sitz in Marienwerder (Westpreußen) entstand 1920 durch Reorganisation des westpreußischen Regierungsbezirks Marienwerder, der 1922 zudem umbenannt wurde. 1920 reduziert auf die bei Deutschland Gebiete der Kreise Marienwerder, Rosenburg in Westpreußen und Stuhm wurde die Zuständigkeit auf die ebenfalls westpreußischen Kreise Elbing Land, Elbing Stadt und Marienburg in Westpreußen ausgeweitet, die vorher zum Regierungsbezirk Danzig gehörten. Aus Gründen der Tradition wurde der seit 1920 aus fünf Landkreisen und einem Stadtkreis bestehende Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder in Regierungsbezirk Westpreußen um benannt. 1939, nach Kriegsbeginn gab der Regierungsbezirk Elbing Land und Elbing Stadt wieder ab, wurde dafür aber um besatzungsmatlich gebildete Kreise im besetzten Polen erweitert. Wieder eingeführt wurde der alte Name, Regierungsbezirk Marienwerder. Er zählte zum Reichsgau Danzig-Westpreußen, worin die Kreise Marienwerder, Rosenberg in Westpreußen und Stuhm die einziigen deutschen Gebiete, neben sonst besetzten polnischen Gebiet darstellten.

English: The Region of West Prussia, capital: Marienwerder in West Prussia [not to be confused with other Marienwerders, such as the one in the Barnim or in Hanover], emerged from the 1815-founded Marienwerder Region, which gained a much reduced and altered territorial form in 1920, when 7 of its 13 rural districts and both urban districts were annexed by Poland. The remaining 6 rural districts were separated by the Polish Corridor, three west of it, three east of it, including the seat of the regional government. The three districts of Elbing (rural and city) and Marienburg in West Prussia [not to be confused with the Prussian district of Marienburg in Hanover], prior part of the Danzig Region (else no part of Germany any more), were added to the Region, which itself -- after the dissolution of the Province of West Prussia -- was annexed to the Province of East Prussia. After ceding the three western districts to the new Schneidemühl Region, in 1922 the Marienwerder Region was renamed as West Prussia Region for reasons of tradition, comprising the districts Elbing City and the rural districts of Elbing, Marienburg in W.Pr., Marienwerder, Rosenberg in West Prussia [not to be confused with the Prussian district of Rosenburg in Upper Silesia] and Stuhm. 1939, after occupying and unilaterally annexing Polish territory the West Prussia Region left East Prussia again and beecame part of the not fully integrated hybrid area Danzig-West Prussia. West Prussia Region ceded the three districts of Elbing (city and rural) and Marienburg to the newly established Danzig Region, and was renamed again as Marienwerder Region, now also administering newly established occupational districts in annexed Polish areas. Thus the Region became a hybrid, comprising genuine German area with German citizens and annexed Polish territory with non-naturalised subjected occupied population, whereas the new Danzig Region was similar, comprising genuine German area with German citizens, annexed Danzig territory, whose citizens were mostly granted German citizenship (except of Danzigers who had immigrated from other areas than Germany) and non-naturalised occupied subjected population in previously Polish areas. The Marienwerder Region disappeared with the conquest by the Soviet Red Army.