Altkirch district
Basic data | |
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State | Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine |
district | Upper Alsace |
Administrative headquarters | Altkirch |
surface | 654 km² (1910) |
Residents | 51,748 (1910) |
Population density | 79 inhabitants / km² (1910) |
Communities | 116 (1910) |
Location of the Altkirch district | |
The circle Altkirch was from 1871 to 1920, a German district in the district of Upper Alsace the Empire State Alsace-Lorraine . The area of the district is now essentially in the Altkirch arrondissement of the French department of Haut-Rhin .
history
After Alsace-Lorraine fell to the German Empire as a result of the Frankfurt Peace Treaty , the Altkirch district was formed in 1871 from parts of the previously French arrondissements of Mulhouse and Belfort . After the end of the First World War , the district was occupied by France in 1918 and, with the entry into force of the Versailles Treaty on January 10, 1920, again belonged to the French state as the Arrondissement Altkirch . During the Second World War , Alsace-Lorraine was under German occupation from 1940 to 1944. During this time, the area of the Altkirch arrondissement was referred to by the German side as the Altkirch district . It was not annexed in the sense of international law , but was subordinate to the Gauleiter for the Gau Baden in Karlsruhe . Between November 1944 and February 1945, the district was retaken by Allied forces and returned to France.
Population development
Residents | 1890 | 1900 | 1910 |
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Altkirch district | 50,840 | 49,863 | 51,748 |
Municipalities with more than 1000 inhabitants (as of 1910):
Altkirch | 3,491 |
Carspach | 1,518 |
Dammerkirch | 1,175 |
Hirsingen | 1,444 |
Hirtzbach | 1,045 |
Hochstatt | 1,207 |
Illfurt | 1,395 |
Pfetterhausen | 1,210 |
politics
District Director
The district administrators in the Reichsland carried the official title of district director.
- 1871–1874 Karl Boehm
- 1874-1882 Albert Halley
- 1882 Emil von Maillot de la Treille
- 1882–1899 Wilhelm Illing
- 1899–1903 Heitmann
- 1903–1908 Ottomar Weber
- 1908–1916 Georg Lang von Langen
Land Commissioner
The following district administrators were in office during the German occupation:
- 1940 Rudolf Ritter ( acting )
District administrators
- 1940–1942 Rudolf Ritter
- 1942–1943 Alois Wunsch
Communities
In 1910 the Altkirch district comprised 116 communities:
literature
- Johannes Schäfer: The vascular plants of the Altkirch district: a contribution to the flora of the Reichslande . Masson, Altkirch 1895 ( digitized version )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 22, 2009 .
- ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. Retrieved May 22, 2009 .
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. els_altkirch.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).