District of Lower Alsace
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
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
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
- ↑ Municipal directory 1910 (accessed on July 6, 2018)
- ^ 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).