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:

• 3 cities, Primkenau (Przemków), Sagan (Żagań) and Sprottau (Szprotawa).
• 102 municipalities,
• 4 Gutsbezirke (forests and the military training area Neuhammer am Queis).

The district had a majority German population, with a small Polish minority.

Ethnolinguistic structure in the district

	1890		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

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Names of two communes were renamed in 1936:

• Puschkau → Hirtenau (does not exist)
• Tschirndorf → Hammerfeld

• Oskar von Bezold (1932–1933)

Holders of these political positions were called "Landsrat".

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

1919–9999: Eichert (Commissar)

1920–1925: Dietrich

1925–1932: Hermann Kranold

1932–1933: Oskar von Bezold

1933–9999: Pintzke

1933–0000: Hans-Walter Friderici

• http://www.geschichte-on-demand.de/sprottau.html