Pewsum [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Pewsum
Pewsum is a village in the municipality of Krummhörn (Aurich district) in western East Frisia. Pewsum is both the administrative seat as well as the trade and craft centre for the municipality. The number of inhabitants is 3,352 (as at: 31 December 2006) and the village lies at a height of .
History.
Pewsum was first mentioned in 945 as the castle of the Manning family of chieftains. From 1565 Pewsum belonged to the Cirksena. 
Well-known people who resided in Pewsum included the
Reichskommissariat
Reichskommissariat () is the German designation for a type of administrative entity headed by a government official known as a "Reichskommissar" (). Although many different such offices existed primarily throughout the Imperial German and Nazi periods in a number of different fields (ranging from public infrastructure and spatial planning to ethnic cleansing) it is most commonly used to refer to the quasi-colonial administrative territorial entity established by Nazi Germany in several occupied countries during World War II. While officially located outside the German Reich in a legal sense