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The Free City of Danzig (German: Freie Stadt Danzig; Polish: Wolne Miasto Gdańsk) was a city-state under the protection and oversight of the League of Nations between 1920 and 1939, consisting of the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) and nearly 200 other small localities in the surrounding areas. [4]
The archive was created in the years 1899 to 1901. The archives of the city of Danzig had been taken over. Records concerning West Prussia had been transferred from the state archives in Königsberg, East Prussia. The archives opened on April 1, 1901 and on February 14, 1903 in an own building.
As a part of Prussia Danzig was a member of the Zollverein and elected its representatives to the German National Assembly of 1848, [64] but lay outside of the borders of the 1815–1866 German Confederation. In the second half of the 19th century the growth of the German population in the city was being slowly reversed, with more Poles ...
The Schwarzwald (or von Schwarzwald) family was a wealthy, patrician, merchant family living in the Hanseatic city of Danzig from the 15th to the 18th century. The family, which had its origins in the Black Forest in south-west Germany, can be traced back to Georg von Schwarzwald, who settled in Danzig in the early 1400s.
As a result of World War I, the Treaty of Versailles allocated most of West Prussia to the Second Polish Republic, and the Danzig Region was dissolved in 1920. The city of Danzig and its environs became the Free City of Danzig. A few eastern areas of the Danzig Region remained in the Free State of Prussia in Weimar Germany, however.
After World War I, due to the provisions of the Versailles Treaty, almost the entire Neustadt district had to be ceded by the German Reich on January 10, 1920. Most of the district was assigned to Poland. The city of Zoppot became part of the Free City of Danzig.
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