From the 

Napoleonic Wars to World War

I, Pomerania was administered by
the Kingdom of Prussia as the Province of
Pomerania (Western and Farther
Pomerania) and West Prussia (Pomerelia).
The Province of Pomerania was created
from the Province of Pomerania (1653–
1815) (Farther Pomerania and southern
Vorpommern) and Swedish
Pomerania (northern Vorpommern), and the
districts of Schivelbein and Dramburg,
formerly belonging to the Neumark.[31] While
in the Kingdom of Prussia, the province was
heavily influenced by the reforms of Karl
August von Hardenberg[154] and Otto von
Bismarck.[155] The industrial revolution had
an impact primarily on the Stettin area and
the infrastructure, while most of the
province retained a rural and agricultural
character.[156] Since 1850, the net migration
rate was negative, Pomeranians emigrated
primarily to Berlin, the West German
industrial regions and overseas.[157] Also,
more than 100,000 Kashubian Poles
emigrated from Pomerania between 1855
and 1900, for economic and social reasons,
in what is called the Kashubian diaspora.
[158]
 In areas where ethnically Polish
population lived along with ethnic Germans
a virtual apartheid existed (in Prussian
Pomerania this was mostly the Lauenburg
and Bütow Land), with bans on Kashubian
or Polish language and religious
discrimination, besides attempts to colonize
areas of prevailingly ethnically Polish
population with ethnic
Germans[159] the Prussian Settlement
Commission, established in 1886 and
restricted to act in Posen and West Prussia
provinces only, parcelled acquired
noble latifundia into 21,727 homesteads of
an average of 13 to 15 hectares,
introducing 154,000 ethnic German
colonists before World War I, which were all
outside of Prusssian Pomerania, but are
also located in areas today denominated as
Pomerania in Polish geography.[160] This was
surpassed after 1892 by efforts of new
private initiatives by minority of ethnically
Polish Germans, but a majority in wide
parts of Posen and West Prussia province,
who founded the Prussian banks Bank
Ziemski, Bank Społek
Zarobkowych (cooperative central clearing
bank) and land acquisition cooperatives
(spółki ziemskie)[161] which collected private
funds and succeeded to buy more latifundia
from defaulted owners and settle more
ethnically Polish Germans as farmers on
the parcelled land than their governmentally
funded counter-party. A big success of the
Prussian activists for the Polish nation.
After the First World War, the Pomeranian
Voivodeship of the Second Polish
Republic was established from the bulk
of West Prussia. Poland became a
democracy and introduced women's right to
vote already in 1918.[162]
The German minority in Poland moved in
large numbers to Germany, mostly of free
will and due to their economic situation.
[163]
 Poland build a large Baltic port at the
site of the former village Gdynia.
The Danzig (Gdańsk) area became the city
state Free City of Danzig.