Kreis Samter (Polish:Powiatszamotulski) was a district inRegierungsbezirk Posen, in thePrussianProvince of Posen from 1818 to 1918. Its territory presently lies in the north-western part of Polish region ofGreater Poland Voivodeship.
The Samter district was formed on 1 January 1818, with its capital atSamter. As part of theProvince of Posen, the Samter district became part of the newly foundedGerman Empire on 18 January 1871.
On 27 December 1918 theGreater Poland uprising began in the province of Posen, and on the same day the district town of Samter came under Polish control. On 16 February 1919 an armistice ended the Polish-German fighting, and on 28 June 1919 theGerman government officially ceded the Samter district to the newly foundedPoland with the signing of theTreaty of Versailles.
In theGerman Empire, the district of Samter, together with the districts ofBirnbaum,Obornik andSchwerin belonged to thePosen 2Reichstag constituency. The constituency was won by the following candidates in the Reichstag elections:
The district had a majority Polish population, with a significant German minority.
| 1831 | 1860 | |||
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| German | 10,823 | 32.2% | 16,695 | 37.1% |
| Polish | 22,760 | 67.8% | 28,312 | 62.9% |
| Total | 33,583 | 45,007 | ||
The five towns in the district wereObersitzko,Pinne,Samter,Scharfenort andWronke.[2]
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