Kingdom of Prussia: ethnic and religious structure in the 1800s

[Peterski]

Georg Hassel has a lot of data about ethnic structure in his book from 1823:

Provinz (Grand Duchy) Posen: https://books.google.pl/books?id=31DMAJgQV28C&pg=PA43



West Prussia, Georg Hassel: https://books.google.pl/books?id=31DMAJgQV28C&pg=PA42



West Prussia, Karl Andree*: https://books.google.pl/books?id=xgUEAAAAYAAJ&pg=P212



Pommern: https://books.google.pl/books?id=31DMAJgQV28C&pg=PA31



Oppeln Silesia: https://books.google.pl/books?id=31DMAJgQV28C&pg=PA34



Breslau Silesia: https://books.google.pl/books?id=31DMAJgQV28C&pg=PA33



^^^
Other authors give similar numbers of Poles in Breslau Silesia (Kamusella, Ladenberger and Michałkiewicz for year 1840 give 80,000 Poles in Breslau Regency and 566,000 in Oppeln Regency; S. Plater gives 600,000 Poles in all of Silesia in 1824).

Liegnitz Silesia: https://books.google.pl/books?id=31DMAJgQV28C&pg=PA34



Brandenburg: https://books.google.pl/books?id=31DMAJgQV28C&pg=PA30



^^^
But according to T. Kamusella, in year 1815 there were still 200,000 Sorbian-speakers in Brandenburg (and 50,000 in Saxony):



In the link below August von Haxthausen in his 1839 book has data on East Prussia, by county:

https://books.google.pl/books?id=Gsj...UC&pg=RA1-PA78

County Allenstein (Olsztyn) for example:



Karl Andree* gives for East Prussia 480,000 Poles and Lithuanians (total population 1,080,000):

https://books.google.pl/books?id=xgUEAAAAYAAJ&pg=P218



*Karl Andree, "Polen: in geographischer, geschichtlicher und culturhistorischer Hinsicht", 1831.

Georg Hassel for some reason added East Prussian Poles to East Prussian Lithuanians. However, he also reported 20,000 Curonians and Latvians as well as 2,400 Jews in East Prussia (Andree's data for East Prussia is for year 1824, Hassel's data for year 1819).

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Religious structure by Regierungsbezirk, in year 1817:



And early 20th century:

Ethnic map by Ing. Jakob Spett (green: Poles), in 1910:

[Peterski]

More data from Encyclopedia Britannica 1842 (they used numbers published by Plater in 1825):

https://play.google.com/books/reader..._GB&pg=GBS.PP1



Ethnically German, Polish and Lithuanian areas in East Prussia:

"Ethnographische Karte von Europa", Heinrich Berghaus, Gotha, 1847:



There is also this book: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_CqpCAAAAIAAJ

Karl Weinhold, "Die Verbreitung und die Herkunft der Deutschen in Schlesien"
("The Origins and Distribution of Germans in Silesia", published in 1887)

He gives some data on ethnic groups in Silesia in the mid-19th century:

[Peterski]

Some data about Kashubians in Pommern here:

http://bazhum.muzhp.pl/media//files/...12-s93-122.pdf

Ethno-linguistic situation in year 1800:



Ethno-linguistic situation in year 1892:



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And ethnic groups of East Prussia, early 1800s:

[Peterski]

In 1893 the party of Polish minority in Germany won Reichstag elections in Olsztyn-Reszel constituency (part of East Prussia) with 55% of the vote:

https://www.porta-polonica.de/en/lex...zlegier-antoni

"Antoni Wolszlegier (Anton Johannes Nepomucenus von Wolszlegier), 1843-1922, Polish priest and publicist, 1893-98 member of the Reichstag of the German Empire, 1896-98 member of the Prussian Landtag. (...) In 1892 he was made the parish priest in Gilgenburg/Dąbrówno. He was active in cooperative movements and in the development of agricultural clubs. In June 1893 he was elected into the Polish parliamentary group in the German Reichstag for the constituency of Rößel-Allenstein/Reszel-Olsztyn with a majority of 54.94% in the second ballot. He served on special committees for tobacco tax, immigration, the right of assembly, jurisdiction, the committee of accounts and the civil law book, and was the first Polish member for Warmia (Ermland) in the Reichstag. From 1896 he was coeditor of the Gazeta Ludowa/Volkszeitung in Lyck/Ełk. He used his family inheritance to support Polish newspapers and printing presses that had sunk into financial difficulties, like the Gazeta Toruńska/Thorner Zeitung and the Gazeta Olsztyńska/Allensteiner Zeitung, and was an active supporter of the founding of the Gazeta Gdańska/Danziger Zeitung. Between 1914 and 1920 he was one of the main Polish activists working for the creation of Polish state in the Prussian sector. In 1918 he became a member of the Polski Sejm Dzielnicowy/Polish Provincial Parliament in Poznan. In 1918/19 he was a member of the Naczelna Rada Ludowa/National Peoples Council. (...)"