Łódź Voivodeship (Polish: Wojewodztwo Łódzkie) was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland from 1919 to 1939. At the time, it covered a large portion of the mid-western part of the country, including such cities as Łódź, Piotrków Trybunalski, Sieradz and Radomsko. The capital of the Łódź Voivodeship was always Łódź, but the land that comprised it changed several times.
In early 1939, the Voivodeship's area was 20,446 square kilometers. It was located in middle Poland, bordering Poznań Voivodeship to the west, Pomorze Voivodeship to the north, Warsaw Voivodeship to the east Kielce Voivodeship to the south and Germany to the southwest. Landscape was flat, forests covered only 14.7%, with the national average 22.2% (as of January 1, 1937).
The most populous cities of the Voivodeship were (population according to the 1931 Polish census):
Łódź (pop. 604,600),
Piotrków Trybunalski (pop. 51,300),
Pabianice (pop. 45,700),
Tomaszów Mazowiecki (pop. 38,000),
Zgierz (pop. 26,600),
Kutno (pop. 23,400),
Radomsko (pop. 23,000).
Populationedit
According to the 1931 Polish census, the population was 2,650,100. Poles made up 81% of the population, Jews 13.8% and Germans 4.9%. The Jews and the Germans preferred to live in the cities and towns (especially Łódź itself). In 1931 these two ethnic groups made up 37.6% of the Voivodeship's cities’ inhabitants. The illiteracy rate (in 1931) was 22.7%, slightly lower than the national average of 23.1%.
Industryedit
The Voivodeship's biggest industrial center was the city of Łódź with its suburbs. Apart from this, it lacked other industrial cities. The construction of a huge public works program, called Centralny Okręg Przemysłowy, which started in the second half of the 1930s, missed this part of Poland. Railroad density was 4.8 per 100 km², while the national average was 5.2. The biggest rail hubs were Koluszki, Kutno, Łowicz, Skierniewice, Zduńska Wola and Łódź.
Voivodesedit
Antoni Kamieński 19 November 1919 – 1 March 1922
Paweł Garapich 1 March 1922 – 14 February 1923 (p.o.)
Marian Rembowski 9 March 1923 – 12 August 1924
Paweł Garapich 12 August 1924 – 30 December 1924
Ludwik Darowski 1925 – 22 June 1926
Jan Ossoliński June 1926 – July 1926 (p.o.)
Władysław Jaszczołt June 1926 – 31 January 1933
Aleksander Hauke-Nowak 31 January 1933 – 13 April 1938
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