District Day (Alsace-Lorraine)

The County Council was in Alsace-Lorraine , a regional parliament, similar to a municipal parliament .

Districts in the Reichsland

After the Franco-Prussian War , Alsace-Lorraine was directly assigned to the Reich as a state and had no statehood of its own. In essence, the French administrative structure was adopted: the Haut-Rhin department became the Upper Rhine district, the Bas-Rhin region became the Lower Alsace region and the areas with a predominantly German-speaking population in parts of the Meurthe and Moselle departments in northeast Lorraine and Metz came to the new district Lorraine , continued territorially unchanged after 1919 as the new Moselle department .

District days

District days were regularly elected for the districts. These consisted of one member from each district of the district. The election was made by direct vote by those eligible to vote in the district. The active and passive right to vote had - as in the district and community elections - every Reich member residing in the district who has reached the age of 25 and paid a direct tax. When the Reichsland was founded, around 160,000 French-speaking residents had opted for French citizenship (and around 110,000 of these people had stayed in the Reichsland). This (relatively small) group therefore had no right to vote. In return, immigrants from the Reich (the so-called Old Germans) immediately acquired the right to vote when they moved.

The seat of the district assembly was that of the district presidium. Among other things, the district days had to decide on the budget of the districts (forming independent legal entities with their own assets). Each 10 members of the regional committee of the Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine were elected by the district assembly. From 1879 there were 34 members elected by the district assembly (Lothringen 11, Oberelsass 10, Unterelsass 13).

Lorraine District Day

Presidents of the District Assembly of Lorraine ( French Conseil Général de la Lorraine ) were:

1874–1881: Auguste-François Adam
1881–1911: Eduard Jaunez
1911–1918: Georg Ditsch

photos

Coat of arms of the district of Lower Alsace
Coat of arms of the district of Upper Alsace
Map of the district of Lower Alsace (1890)
Map of the district of Upper Alsace (1890)
Map of the district of Lorraine (1890)

Remarks

↑ See negotiations of the District Assembly of Lorraine / Procès-verbaux des délibérations du Conseil Général de la Lorraine (most speeches in French), Metz: 1874–1918.

[1] See negotiations of the District Assembly of Lorraine / Procès-verbaux des délibérations du Conseil Général de la Lorraine (most speeches in French), Metz: 1874–1918.