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1871–1918/1920
  
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1872–1873
  
Botho zu Eulenburg

1874–1881
  
Auguste-François Adam

1871–1872
  
G.H. von Donnersmarck

1875–1876
  
Robert von Puttkamer

Capital
  
Metz

Bezirk Lothringen

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regional administration

Bezirk lothringen


Bezirk Lothringen (French: Présidence de la Lorraine; i.e. Department of Lorraine), also called German Lorraine (deutsches Lothringen), was the name for a Department ("Bezirk") in the western part of Alsace-Lorraine when it was part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918.

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History

The District of Lorraine was unlike Prussian government regions no simple governorate but a corporation of self-rule of the pertaining rural and urbans subdistricts and cantons, similar to regions in the then neighbouring Bavaria (Palatinate). Thus the district parliaments delegated deputies to the General Council (parliament), the Bezirkstag von Lothringen (French: Conseil Général de la Lorraine). The capital of the District of Lorraine was Metz.

Territorial composition

The department comprised the districts ("Kreise") of :

  1. Metz, independent city (Stadtkreis)
  2. "Kreis Bolchen", seated in Bolchen (Boulay)
  3. "Kreis Château-Salins", seated in Château-Salins
  4. "Lreis Diedenhofen-Ost", seated in Thionville
  5. "Kreis Diedenhofen-West", seated in Thionville
  6. "Kreis Forbach", seated in Forbach
  7. "Kreis Metz-Land", seated in Metz
  8. "Kreis Saarburg", seated in Sarrebourg
  9. "Kreis Saargemünd", seated in Sarreguemines

The district of Lorraine corresponds exactly to the current département of Moselle. After the outbreak of the Second World War and the defeat of France in 1940, the département of Moselle, renamed CdZ-Gebiet Lothringen, was added to the Gau Westmark on 30 November 1940.

District Presidents

(German: Bezirkspräsident/French: Président de district)

  • 1871-1872 : Guido Henckel von Donnersmarck, as préfet/Präfekt
  • 1872-1873 : Botho zu Eulenburg, as department president
  • 1873-1874 : Adolf von Arnim-Boitzenburg
  • 1875-1876 : Robert von Puttkamer
  • 1877-1880 : Friedrich Albrecht Karl Johann von Reitzenstein
  • 1881-1882 : Adalbert von Flottwell
  • 1883-1900 : Hans von Hammerstein-Loxten
  • 1901-1912 : Johann Friedrich Alexander von Zeppelin-Aschhausen
  • 1913-1918 : Karl von Gemmingen-Hornberg

    • Biography

  • Amtsblatt für den Bezirk Lothringen / Recueil officiel des actes administratifs du Département de la Lorraine (departmental legal gazette; appeared December 1870 to 1918)
  • Ernst Bruck, Das Verfassungs- und Verwaltungsrecht von Elsaß-Lothringen: 3 vols., Straßburg im Elsass: Trübner, 1908–1910.
  • Stefan Fisch, „Das Elsaß im deutschen Kaiserreich (1870/71–1918)“, in: Das Elsass: Historische Landschaft im Wandel der Zeit, Michael Erbe (ed.), Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2003, pp. 123–146. ISBN 3-17-015771-X.
  • Georg Lang, Der Regierungs-Bezirk Lothringen: statistisch-topographisches Handbuch, Verwaltung-Schematismus und Adressbuch, Metz: Lang, 1874
  • Verhandlungen des Bezirkstages von Lothringen / Procès-verbaux des délibérations du Conseil Général de la Lorraine, Metz (proceedings of the departmental parliament sessions, appeared from 1874 to 1918)

    • References

    Bezirk Lothringen Wikipedia
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