Lwów Voivodeship (1944–1945)

The Lwów Voivodeship[lower-alpha 1] was a short-lived voivodeship (province) of Poland, with capital in Rzeszów, that existed from 1944 to 1945. It was established on 22 August 1944,[1] and until 28 June 1945, remained under the administration of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland,[2] which then was replaced by the Provisional Government of National Unity.[3] It existed until 18 August 1945, when it was incorporated into then-established Rzeszów Voivodeship.[4]

For the voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic, existing from 1920 to 1939, see Lwów Voivodeship.
Lwów Voivodeship
Voivodeship of Poland
1944–1945

The subdivisions of Poland in July 1945, including the Lwów Voivodeship.
CapitalRzeszów
History
Government
 • TypeVoivodeship
Voivode 
• 1944 (first)
Wiktor Jedliński
• 1945 (last)
Jan Mirek
History 
• Established
22 August 1944
• Disestablished
18 August 1945
Contained within
 • Country Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland (1944–1945)
Provisional Government of National Unity (1945)
Preceded by		Succeeded by
General Government
Rzeszów Voivodeship
Lublin Voivodeship

History
The subdivisions of Poland in August 1945, including the Lwów Voivodeship shortly before its disestablishment, following the transfer of several of the northern-east municipalities to the Lublin Voivodeship.

The Lwów Voivodeship was established on 22 August 1944, by the Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland, within the borders of the Lwów Voivodeship of the Second Polish Republic, that existed from 1919 to 1939, with the exceptions of the territories that by-then belonged to the Soviet Union. It replaced the subdivisions of the General Government.[1] Its capital was located in the city of Rzeszów.[5] Until 28 June 1945, it remained under the administration of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Poland,[2] which then was replaced by the Provisional Government of National Unity.[3]

At the time, the final border between Poland and the Soviet Union, was still being uncertain, which included the affiliation of the namesake of the voivodeship, the city of Lviv, known in Polish, as Lwów, which was located within the territory of the Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.[6][7] As such, the Polish government refrained from officially referring to the region by the name of the city, instead usually referring to it as the voivodeship with the capital in Rzeszów.[5]

On 7 July 1945, it was decided that the voivodeship would be disestablished and replaced by the Rzeszów Voivodeship, which happened on 18 August 1945.[4]

Shortly before the disestablishment of the voivodeship, several gminas (municipalities) of the counties of Rawa and Sokal, were ceded to the Lublin Voivodeship. Those were the municipalities of Lubycza Królewska, Uhnów, and Tarnoszyn, of the Rawa County, and the municipalities of Krystynopol, Chorobrów, Waręż, and Bełz, of the Sokal County.[8] It remains unknown when exactly all of them were transferred, however it is known that the municipality of Tarnoszyn was transferred on 9 August 1945.[9]

The Polish–Soviet border agreement had been signed on 16 August 1945, finalizing the border, and confirming the alliance of the city of Lviv to the Soviet Union.[10]

Subdivisions

The voivodeship was divided into counties.[4][8] Those were:

Leaders

The leader of the voivodeship was the voivode. The people in that office were:

  • 22 August 1944 – 22 September 1944: Wiktor Jedliński
  • 22 September 1944 – 22 October 1944: Stanisław Janusz
  • 22 October 1944 – 30 June 1945: Stanisław Tkaczow
  • 1 July 1945 – 31 July 1945: Edward Kluk
  • 1 August 1945 – 18 August 1945 Jan Mirek

Citations

Notes
  1. Polish: Województwo lwowskie

References
  1. Ustawa z dnia 28 maja 1975 r. o dwustopniowym podziale administracyjnym Państwa oraz o zmianie ustawy o radach narodowych.
  2. Paweł Wieczorkiewicz: Historia polityczna Polski 1935–1945, Warsaw: Książka i Wiedza publishing house, 2005. ISBN 83-05-13441-5, p. 459.
  3. Aleksander Gella: Zagłada Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej 1945–1947, Warsaw, 1998.
  4. Dekret z dnia 7 lipca 1945 r. o utworzeniu województwa rzeszowskiego.
  5. "JAK RZESZÓW ZOSTAŁ STOLICĄ WOJEWÓDZTWA… LWOWSKIEGO". nowastrategia.org.pl (in Polish). 19 August 2014.
  6. Sylwester Fertacz (2005), "Krojenie mapy Polski: Bolesna granica" (Carving of Poland's map). Magazyn Społeczno-Kulturalny Śląsk. Retrieved from the Internet Archive on 5 June 2016.
  7. Simon Berthon; Joanna Potts (2007). Warlords: An Extraordinary Re-Creation of World War II. Da Capo Press. p. 285. ISBN 978-0-306-81650-5.
  8. J. Feduszka (2001). "Zmiany przebiegu granicy". Archived from the original on 20 December 2016.
  9. Rozporządzenie Rady Ministrów z dnia 7 lipca 1945 r. o przyłączeniu gminy wiejskiej Tarnoszyn do powiatu tomaszewskiego w województwie lubelskim.
  10. Lachenmann, Frauke; Wolfrum, Rudiger, eds. (2017). The Law of Armed Conflict and the Use of Force: The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law. Oxford University Press. p. 1427. ISBN 978-0198784623.

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