District of Upper Alsace

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District of Upper Alsace 1890
Seal of the imperial district president of Upper Alsace

The district of Upper Alsace ( French department Haut-Rhin ) was from 1871 to 1918 one of the three districts of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine in the German Empire . The district town was Colmar . The area of ​​the district corresponds to that of today's Haut-Rhin . In 1910 the district covered 3,508 km² and had 517,865 inhabitants (1885: 462,549 inhabitants)

history

From May 10, 1871 ( Peace of Frankfurt ) to June 28, 1919 ( Peace Treaty of Versailles ) the district was part of the German Empire .

District Presidents

At the head of the district was a district president:

1871–1875: Robert von der Heydt (1837–1877)
1875–1879: Adolf Ernst von Ernsthausen (1827–1894)
1880–1888: Ludwig Ferdinand Timme (1830–1888)
1888–1898: Gustav von Jordan
1898–1906: Alexander zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1862–1924)
1906–1918: Albert August Wilhelm von Puttkamer (1861–1931)

District day

The Oberelsass district assembly existed as a representative body . This consisted of one member from each district of the district, i.e. six members. The election was made by direct vote by those eligible to vote in the district. The district days elected the members of the state committee .

Administrative division

The district was divided into the following six districts. The former arrondissement of Belfort with its French-speaking population remained as Territoire de Belfort in France.

Web links

  • District Oberelsaß administrative history and the district presidents on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of September 26, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Municipal directory 1910 (accessed on July 6, 2018)
  2. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. elsass_ob.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).