District of Erstein

Basic data
State	Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine
district	Lower Alsace
Administrative headquarters	First stone
surface	498 km² (1910)
Residents	65,159 (1910)
Population density	131 inhabitants / km² (1910)
Communities	50 (1910)
Location of the district of Erstein

The county Erstein was from 11 January 1871 to 1920, a German district in the district of Lower Alsace of the Empire State Alsace-Lorraine . The area of ​​the district is today essentially in the arrondissement of Sélestat-Erstein in the French department of Bas-Rhin .

history

After Alsace-Lorraine fell to the German Empire as a result of the Frankfurt Peace Treaty , the Erstein district was formed in 1871 from the then French arrondissement of Erstein. 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, belonged to the French state again as the Arrondissement of Erstein .

During the Second World War , Alsace-Lorraine was under German occupation from 1940 to 1944. During this time, the area of ​​the Erstein district initially formed the district of Erstein . In 1941 the district was dissolved and its area was divided into the neighboring districts of Molsheim , Strasbourg and Schlettstadt . The district 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 recaptured by Allied forces and returned to France.

politics

District Directors

The district administrators carried the official title of district director.

1872–1873 Albert Halley00

1874–1882 Carl Boehm00

1882–1884 Bernhard Hartenstein (1840–1889)00

1884–1885 Karl Wilhelm Mandel (* 1851)00

1886–1888 Otto Pöhlmann (1848–1927) (Jehke states from 1885)00

1892–1895 Peucer (Jehke states from 1889)00

1898–1901 Bernhard Baumbach00

1901–1910 Wilhelm Lautz00

1911–1912 Walther Kleemann00

1913–1916 Otto Biffé00

1917–1918 Georg Lang von Langen (Jehke states from 1916)00

State Committee

From 1879 to 1911 the district elected a representative to the regional committee of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . These were

1879–1890 François Zorn von Bulach (1828–1890)00

1890–1895 Hugo Zorn von Bulach (1851–1921)00

1895–1911 Alphonse Gilliot (1849–1927)00

Land Commissioner

1940 Werner Cyprian ( acting )-999900

District administrators

1940–1941 Werner Cyprian00

Population development

Residents	1890	1900	1910
District of Erstein	61,711	62,962	65,159

Municipalities with more than 2000 inhabitants (as of 1910):

local community	Residents
Benfeld	2,640
First stone	6,061
Geispolsheim	2.233
Illkirch-Grafenstaden	6,522
Lingolsheim	2,298
Oberehnheim	3,915

Communities

In 1910 the Erstein district comprised 50 communities:

Benfeld Bernhardsweiler Bläsheim Bolsenheim Boofzheim Burgheim Stave sand Düppigheim Düttlenheim Enzheim First stone Eschau Fegersheim

Friesenheim Geispolsheim Gerstheim Goxweiler Herbsheim Hindisheim Hipsheim Holzheim Huettenheim Ichtratzheim Illkirch-Grafenstaden Inner home Kerzfeld

Kogenheim Krautergersheim Limersheim Lingolsheim Lipsheim Matzenheim Meistratzheim Niederehnheim Nordhausen Up home Oberehnheim Osthausen Ostwald

Plobsheim Rheinau Rossfeld sand Schaffersheim Sermersheim Uttenheim Whale Westhausen Witternheim Zellweiler

literature

• M. Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006) <

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. ^ Francois J. Himly: Chronologie de la Basse Alsace , 1972, p. 244.
4. ^ Rolf Jehke: Territorial changes in Germany and German administered areas 1874-1945
5. ^ Francois J. Himly: Chronologie de la Basse Alsace , 1972, p. 253.
6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. els_erstein.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).