After the plebiscite (see adjacent panel) and the separation of the Duchy of Schleswig into North and South Schleswig, which took effect on 15 June 1920, the new state border had not yet been defined in all sections. The location of the border crossings was also not clear everywhere.
This task was now taken over by a border regulation commission in which German, Danish, English, French, Italian and Japanese authority were represented. The overseers would inspect the border by car and finetune the demarcations. Their directional papers were a short description of the basic course of the new border in French (see heading).
They were as unclear as they were short. Every detail of the future frontier had to be clarified: uncertain points were visited, discussed and determined. The course was then marked with a total of 279 boundary stones. On 25 November 1920, the commission decided that the now precisely marked border would finally come into force on 1 January 1921 at 8 am.
This task was now taken over by a border regulation commission in which German, Danish, English, French, Italian and Japanese authority were represented. The overseers would inspect the border by car and finetune the demarcations. Their directional papers were a short description of the basic course of the new border in French (see heading).
They were as unclear as they were short. Every detail of the future frontier had to be clarified: uncertain points were visited, discussed and determined. The course was then marked with a total of 279 boundary stones. On 25 November 1920, the commission decided that the now precisely marked border would finally come into force on 1 January 1921 at 8 am.
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