Global InformationBezirk Lothringen information
| Department of Lorraine Bezirk Lothringen (German) Présidence de Lorraine (French) | |||||||||||
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| Department of Alsace-Lorraine | |||||||||||
| 1871–1918 | |||||||||||
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 Lorraine department with its districts in different colours (1890) | |||||||||||
| Capital | Metz | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
• 1900 | 6,223 km2 (2,403 sq mi) | ||||||||||
• 1910 | 6,228 km2 (2,405 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
• 1900 | 564,829 | ||||||||||
• 1910 | 655,211 | ||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||
| • Type | regional administration | ||||||||||
| Bezirkspräsident | |||||||||||
• 1871–1872 | G.H. von Donnersmarck | ||||||||||
• 1872–1873 | Botho zu Eulenburg | ||||||||||
• 1875–1876 | Robert von Puttkamer | ||||||||||
| Präsident des Bezirkstags (speaker of parl.) | |||||||||||
• 1874–1881 | Auguste-François Adam | ||||||||||
• 1881–1911 | Édouard Jaunez | ||||||||||
• 1911–1918 | Georges Ditsch | ||||||||||
| Legislature | Bezirkstag (parliament) | ||||||||||
| Historical era | 19th and 20th century | ||||||||||
• Franco-Prussian War | 1870–1871 | ||||||||||
• seized to Germany | 19 May 1871 | ||||||||||
• reorganisation acc. to German standards | 1871 | ||||||||||
• Bezirkstag est. | 1874 | ||||||||||
• reg. carsign VI C | 1906 | ||||||||||
• French occupation | 1918–1920 | ||||||||||
• seized to France Versailles Tr. (effective) | 10 January 1918 | ||||||||||
• reconstituted as Moselle dept. | 1920 | ||||||||||
| Political subdivisions | 8 rural districts (as of 1901) 1 urban district (Metz) | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | France | ||||||||||
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Bezirk Lothringen (today's French: Présidence [1] de la Lorraine, at the time translated into French: Département de la Lorraine[2] i.e. Department of Lorraine), also called German Lorraine (Deutsch Lothringen), was a government region ("Bezirk") in the western part of Alsace-Lorraine when it was part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918.
- ^ F. ROTH La Présidence de Lorraine dans l’Empire allemand de 1871 à 1918, Annales de l’Est, Mémoire n° 50, Nancy, 1976, Moulin-les-Metz, 720 pages
- ^ In official bilingual publications at the time the Bezirk Lothringen is translated as Département de la Lorraine. German was the official language and its promotion was furthered, but bearing the strong proportion of Francophone Lorrainese in mind several bilingual publications appeared especially referring to the area of their settlement in the west and south of the Department or referring to department-wide events and organisations. Cf. the title of the department's legal gazette: Amtsblatt für den Bezirk Lothringen / Recueil officiel des actes administratifs du Département de la Lorraine.