| Common Name: | Sprottau district |
| Subdivision: | District |
| Nation: | Prussia |
| Capital: | Sprottau (Szprotawa) |
| Coordinates: | 51.5667°N 15.5°W |
| Today: | Poland |
| Year Start: | 1816 |
| Year End: | 1945 |
| Image Map Caption: | Map from 1905 |
| Stat Year1: | 1910 |
| Stat Area1: | 0.730 |
| Stat Pop1: | 39,882 |
The Landkreis Sprottau was a district of the German state Prussia from 1816 to 1945. It was part of the Prussian Province of Lower Silesia, before 1919 the Prussian Province of Silesia. In 1932 it was merged with Landkreis Sagan. Its present-day successors are Powiat Żagański and Powiat Polkowicki. On 1 January 1945 it included:
The district had a majority German population, with a small Polish minority.[1]
| 1900 | |||||
| German | 36,337 | 98.85% | 38,175 | 97.78% | |
| Polish | 307 | 0.84% | 570 | 1.46% | |
| Bilingual | 84 | 0.23% | 124 | 0.32% | |
| Total | 36,759 | 39,042 | |||
Names of two communes were renamed in 1936:
Holders of these political positions were called "Landsrat".[2]
1811–1831: Kaspar von Knobelsdorff
1831–1857: Alexander Maximilian von Schkopp
1857–1869: Robert von Reder († 1869)
1869–1877: Hans Graf von Kanitz-Podangen (1813–1941)
1877–1890: Günther von Dallwitz (1838–1910)
1890–1910: Henning von Klitzing
1910–1919: Wilhelm Freiherr von Kottwitz
1919: Eichert (Commissar)
1920–1925: Dietrich
1925–1932: Hermann Kranold
1932–1933: Oskar von Bezold
1933: Pintzke
1933–: Hans-Walter Friderici