District of Schlettstadt

Basic data
State	Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine
district	District of Lower Alsace
Administrative headquarters	Schlettstadt
surface	636 km² (1910)
Residents	67,581 (1910)
Population density	106 inhabitants / km² (1910)
Communities	63 (1910)
Location of the district of Schlettstadt

The county Schlettstadt was from 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 district of Schlettstadt was formed from the previously French arrondissement of Schlettstadt. 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 Schlettstadt . During the Second World War , Alsace-Lorraine was under German occupation from 1940 to 1944. During this time, the area of ​​the arrondissement of Schlettstadt formed the district of 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 liberated by Allied forces and then returned to France.

Population development

Residents	1890	1900	1910
District of Schlettstadt	70,719	68,541	67,581

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

local community	Residents
Barr	4,934
Dambach	2,355
Epfig	2,208
Kestenholz	2,533
Markolsheim	2.113
Scherweiler	2.411
Schlettstadt	10,604

politics

District Director

1871–1872 Emil Bechert00

1872–1882 Ernst zu Solms-Laubach00

1882–1889 Gustav Pfarrius00

1889–1897 Otto Pöhlmann (1848–1927)00

1897–1908 Albert Dieckmann00

1908–1918 Heitmann00

1918 Emil Petri (1852-1918)-999900

State Committee

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

1879–1891 Anselm Ruhlmann00

1891–1903 Edmond Roth00

1903–1911 Alphonse Schott00

Land Commissioner

1940 Alois Wunsch ( acting )-999900

District administrators

1940–1942 Alois Wunsch00

1942 Erich Stuible ( acting )-999900

1942–1944 August Bossert00

Communities

In 1910 the Schlettstadt district comprised 63 communities:

Andlau Artolsheim Baldenheim Barr Bassenberg Bernhardsweiler Bindernheim Blienschweiler Boozheim Evil tucks Breitenau Breitenbach Dambach Diebolsheim Diefenbach Diefenthal

Ebersheim Ebersmünster Eichhofen Elsenheim Epfig Erlenbach Gereuth Gertweiler pit Heidolsheim Heiligenstein Hessenheim Hilsenheim Hohwald Ittersweiler Kestenholz

Kinzheim Laugh Mackenheim Markolsheim Tit god Mittelbergheim Idle Müttersholz Neukirch Emergency stop Ohnenheim Orschweiler Reichsfeld Richtolsheim Saasenheim Saint Martin

Saint Moritz Saint Peter Saint Peter's Wood Scherweiler Schlettstadt Schönau Schwobsheim Rise Stotzheim Sundhausen Thannweiler Triembach Urbeis hamlet Wittisheim

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_schlettstadt.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
4. ^ Francois J. Himly: Chronologie de la Basse Alsace , 1972, p. 254.