Rangsdorf

Rangsdorf is a municipality in the district of Teltow-Fläming in Brandenburg in Germany. It has an airfield [up to 1940 a genuine commercial airport] from where on 20 July 1944 Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg took off on his fateful attempt to assassinate German leader Adolf Hitler at his military headquarters in East Prussia, the Wolfsschanze.

Rangsdorf
Coat of arms
Location of Rangsdorf within Teltow-Fläming district
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Coordinates: 52°16′59″N 13°25′59″E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Teltow-Fläming
Subdivisions	3 Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor	Klaus Rocher (FDP)
Area
• Total	33.72 km^2 (13.02 sq mi)
Elevation	36 m (118 ft)
Population  (2019-12-31)[1]
• Total	11,369
• Density	340/km^2 (870/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	15834
Dialling codes	033708
Vehicle registration	TF
Website	www.rangsdorf.de

Reich Minister of Armaments and Ammunition Fritz Todt was killed in a Heinkel He 111 crash departing the airfield on 8 February 1942.

Demography

• 
  Development of Population since 1875 within Current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population Development of Brandenburg state; Grey Background: Time of National Socialist rule; Red Background: Time of Communist rule)
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  Recent Population Development and Projections (Population Development before Census 2011 (blue line); Recent Population Development according to the Census in Germany in 2011 (blue bordered line); Official projections for 2005-2030 (yellow line); for 2014-2030 (red line); for 2017-2030 (scarlet line)

Rangsdorf: Population development
within the current boundaries (2017)[2]

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1875 1,079 —     1890 1,084 +0.03% 1910 1,303 +0.92% 1925 1,400 +0.48% 1933 2,267 +6.21% 1939 4,986 +14.04% 1946 5,907 +2.45% 1950 6,166 +1.08% 1964 6,294 +0.15% 1971 6,846 +1.21% 1981 6,483 −0.54% 1985 6,220 −1.03% 1989 6,001 −0.89% 1990 5,905 −1.60% 1991 5,808 −1.64%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1992 5,863 +0.95% 1993 5,961 +1.67% 1994 6,050 +1.49% 1995 6,297 +4.08% 1996 6,532 +3.73% 1997 7,052 +7.96% 1998 7,480 +6.07% 1999 7,912 +5.78% 2000 8,303 +4.94% 2001 8,581 +3.35% 2002 8,818 +2.76% 2003 8,977 +1.80% 2004 9,236 +2.89% 2005 9,545 +3.35% 2006 9,745 +2.10%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 2007 10,002 +2.64% 2008 10,190 +1.88% 2009 10,372 +1.79% 2010 10,515 +1.38% 2011 10,444 −0.68% 2012 10,498 +0.52% 2013 10,609 +1.06% 2014 10,824 +2.03% 2015 10,848 +0.22% 2016 11,163 +2.90% 2017 11,279 +1.04% 2018 11,309 +0.27% 2019 11,369 +0.53%

References

1. "Bevölkerung im Land Brandenburg nach amtsfreien Gemeinden, Ämtern und Gemeinden 31. Dezember 2019". Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). July 2020.
2. Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons