District of Lower Alsace

District of Lower Alsace 1890

The district of Unterelsaß ( French department Bas-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 Strasbourg . The area of ​​the district corresponds to that of the present Bas-Rhin department . The district covered 4,786 km² in 1910 and had 700,938 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

Seal of the District President of Lower Alsace

A district president was at the head of the district.

1870–1871: Friedrich von Luxburg (1829–1905)

1871–1875: Adolf Ernst von Ernsthausen (1827–1894)

1875–1880: Carl Ledderhose

1880–1886: Otto Back (1834–1917)

1886–1889: Joseph Philipp von Stichaner (1838–1889)

1889–1898: Julius von Freyberg-Eisenberg (1832–1912)

1898–1907: Alexander Halm (1840–1913)

1907–1918: Otto Pöhlmann (1848–1927)

Administrative division

The district was divided into the following eight districts.

Urban district

Strasbourg urban district

Counties

District of Erstein

Hagenau district

Molsheim district

District of Schlettstadt

Strasbourg district

Weissenburg District

Zabern district

Web links

• District Unterelsaß 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_unt.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).