Colmar district

Basic data
State	Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine
district	Upper Alsace
Administrative headquarters	Colmar
surface	660 km² (1910)
Residents	97,736 (1910)
Population density	148 inhabitants / km² (1910)
Communities	63 (1910)
Location of the district of Colmar

The county Colmar 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 in the arrondissement of Colmar-Ribeauvillé in the French department of Haut-Rhin .

history

After Alsace-Lorraine fell to the German Empire as a result of the Peace Treaty of Frankfurt , the district of Colmar was formed in 1871 from the previously French arrondissement of Mulhouse . 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 of Colmar . During the Second World War , Alsace-Lorraine was under German occupation from 1940 to 1944. During this time the area of ​​the arrondissement of Colmar formed the district of Kolmar . It was not annexed in the sense of international law , but was subordinate to the Gauleiter for the Gau Baden in Strasbourg . Between November 1944 and February 1945, the district was retaken by Allied forces and returned to France.

Population development

Residents	1890	1900	1910
Colmar district	85,489	91,428	97,736

Municipalities with more than 3000 inhabitants (as of 1910):

Colmar	43,808
Muenster	5,974
Neubreisach	2,809
Türkheim	2,522
Winzenheim	3,576

politics

District Directors

Seal of the Imperial District Director of Colmar

The district administrators in the Reichsland carried the official title of district director.

1871–1878 Hans von Hammerstein-Loxten (1843–1905)00

1878–1880 Carl Bergmann00

1880–1882 Christian Feichter00

1882–1889 Karl Boehm00

1889–1897 Karl Ott († 1923)00

1897–1901 Friedrich Curtius (1851–1933)00

1901–1909 Max Menny († 1921)00

1909–1910 Baron von Türcke00

1910–1913 Richard Schlössingk00

1913–1918 Curt Cronau (* 1870)00

Land Commissioner

1940 Heinrich Groß ( acting )-999900

District administrators

The following district administrators were in office during the German occupation:

1940 Heinrich Groß-999900

1940–1943 Arnold Köpfler00

Communities

In 1910, the Colmar district comprised 63 municipalities:

Algolsheim Andolsheim Appenweier Arzenheim Balgau Balzenheim Biesheim Bischweier Breitenbach Colmar Dessenheim Drought limits Egisheim Eschbach Progress Geiswasser

Griesbach Grussenheim Gunsbach Hausen Houses Holy Cross Serene Herlisheim Hettenschlag Hohrod Holzweier Horburg Jebsheim Künheim Logelnheim Luttenbach

Metzeral Mittlach Mühlbach Muenster Munzenheim Nambsheim Neubreisach Obermorschweier Obersaasheim Riedweier But after Shockweier Sulzbach Sulzern Sundhofen Türkheim

Urschenheim Bird green Vöklinshofen Volgelsheim Walbach Moated castle Weckolsheim Weier in the country Weier im Thal Wettolsheim Wickerschweier Widensolen Winzenheim Wolf whole Zimmerbach

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on May 22, 2009 . 
2. ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany. Retrieved May 22, 2009 . 
3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. els_colmar.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).