Łódz vs. Litzmannstadt??

[landsknechte]

I came across a reference for Łódz in Poland being referred to as Litzmannstadt. Can anyone shed any light on who referred to it as such, and when?

Thanks,
--Chris

[Michael Kuligowski]

hello !!!
I am very happy to help - science I was born in Zgierz - which is only 6 miles from Lodz !!!!!!

and yes... during 1939 - up to 1945 Lodz was called Litzmannstadt - coming from a name of general Litzmann who won battle of Lodz in 1914

Lodz has city rights for only 150 years... was just a village till woll/cotton industry become growing there.... after that it was a very dynamic industrial city.... and now has more than 900.000 people living there
during the war Lodz become a part of reich - not general goverment... it was also a huge producent of uniforms and equipment

[landsknechte]

hello !!!
I am very happy to help - science I was born in Zgierz - which is only 6 miles from Lodz !!!!!!

and yes... during 1939 - up to 1945 Lodz was called Litzmannstadt - coming from a name of general Litzmann who won battle of Lodz in 1914

Lodz has city rights for only 150 years... was just a village till woll/cotton industry become growing there.... after that it was a very dynamic industrial city.... and now has more than 900.000 people living there
during the war Lodz become a part of reich - not general goverment... it was also a huge producent of uniforms and equipment

Interesting... My Volksdeutsche father in law was born in Łódz in 1934, and I know his family was involved in the textile industry. I've never really been able to convince him to talk about his childhood very much.(Only once has he started to open up about it, and if I hadn't just finished a class at university in German history, I would have been completely lost.) I have never been able to find out precisely what his family's politics were, but he's the first Julius Lange in a few centuries not to be Julius Adolph Lange... They fled when the Soviets invaded, and ended up eventually missing the firebombing of Dresden by inches - they were on a train out of town at the time. Needless to say, he's more than a little traumatized by the whole thing.

Thanks for your help! Perhaps someday I'll actually make some headway on that side of the family tree.

--Chris