District of Diedenhofen

Basic data
State	Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine
district	Lorraine
Administrative headquarters	Diedenhofen
surface	945 km² (1900)
Residents	115,873 (1900)
Population density	123 inhabitants / km² (1900)
Communities	103 (1900)
Location of the Diedenhofen district

The district of Diedenhofen was from 1871 to 1901 a district in the Lorraine district of the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . From 1940 to 1944 he was under the name of the district Diedenhofen as part of the occupied France built CdZ-region Lorraine set up again. The area of ​​the district is today essentially in the Arrondissement Thionville of the French department of Moselle .

The Diedenhofen district in the German Empire

Administrative history

→ Main articles : District of Diedenhofen-Ost  and District of Diedenhofen-West

After Alsace-Lorraine fell to the German Empire through the Peace Treaty of Frankfurt, the district of Diedenhofen was formed in 1871 from the previously French arrondissements of Briey and Thionville . The district director had his seat in the city of Diedenhofen (Thionville) . The Diedenhofen district thus belonged to the Lorraine district in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine. On April 8, 1901, the Diedenhofen district was split up. Two new circles emerged from it:

• The district of Diedenhofen-Ost , consisting of the canton of Diedenhofen with the communities of Diedenhofen , Monhofen , Niederjeutz , Oberjeutz , Terwen and Weimeringen , the canton of Kattenhofen without the communities of Arsweiler , Öttingen and Ruxweiler and the cantons of Metzerwiese and Sierck
• The district of Diedenhofen-West , consisting of the canton of Diedenhofen without the communities of Diedenhofen , Monhofen , Niederjeutz , Oberjeutz , Terwen and Weimeringen and the canton of Kattenhofen with the communities of Arsweiler , Öttingen and Ruxweiler

For both districts, the district director continued to have his seat in Diedenhofen.

District Directors

1871 Ferdinand von Helldorff (1835–1893) ( acting )-999900

1871–1881 Julius Siegfried (1835–1901)00

1881–1887 Johann Spiecker00

1887–1898 German Killinger (1844–1940)00

1898–1899 Anton von Villers-Grignoncourt (1849–1911)00

1899–1901 Ernst Cordemann00

Local constitution

Initially, the French law of July 18, 1837 on municipal administration continued to apply during German times. On April 1, 1896, the previous municipal constitution was replaced and the new municipal code for Alsace-Lorraine of June 6, 1895 was introduced. It applied to all municipalities and made no distinction between those with a rural or urban constitution.

Population development

Residents	1890	1900
District of Diedenhofen	84.505	115,873

Municipalities with more than 2000 inhabitants (as of 1885/1890):

local community	Residents
Diedenhofen	8923
Grand Moyeuvre	5441
Hayingen	6163

Communities

In 1900 the Diedenhofen district comprised 103 communities:

Algringen Apach Arsweiler Aumetz Beers mountain Bertringen Bettsdorf Bidlingen Bollingen Breisdorf Büdingen Repentance Bust Deutschoth Diedenhofen Diesdorf Elsingen Endorf Sing out Escheringen Ewringen Fameck Fentsch Fixem Flasdorf

Flörchingen Gandringen Garsch Gauwies Grindorf Großhettingen Grand Moyeuvre Hagen Havingen Hayingen Homburg-Kedingen Huentingen Illingen Inglés Kanfen Kattenhofen Kemplich Kerlingen Church palate Kirsch near Sierck Kleinmoyeuvre Kneuttingen Kingmakers Laumesfeld Launsdorf Lommeringen

Lüttingen Mallingen Mandern Marsspich Merschweiler Metzeresch Metzerwiese Mondorf Monhofen Monneren Montenach Nine houses Niederginingen Niederham Niederjeutz Niederkontz Nieder-Rentgen Nilvingen Oberjeutz Oberkontz Oetringen Oettingen Püttlingen Rangwall Redingen Reichersberg

Reimelingen Rettel Ritzingen Harvesters Rörchingen Rosslingen Rüsdorf Rüssingen Rüttgen Ruxweiler Schremingen Sentzich Sierck Suftgen Terwen Tressingen Ückingen Udern Volkringen Waldweisdorf Forest meadow Wallingen Weimeringen Wollmeringen Wolsdorf

The district of Diedenhofen in the Second World War

Administrative history

During the Second World War , Alsace-Lorraine was under German occupation from 1940 to 1944 and was in fact treated like Reich territory again. Since August 2, 1940, the arrondissements of Thionville-Est and Thionville-Ouest, now renamed Landkreis Diedenhofen-Ost and Landkreis Diedenhofen-West , belonged to the district of the head of civil administration in the CdZ area of ​​Lorraine . German land commissioners were deployed in Diedenhofen to manage it. On December 1, 1940, the two districts were merged to form the new district of Diedenhofen . At the same time, the municipalities of the canton Großmövern and the municipality Mondelingen were reclassified from the district of Diedenhofen to the district of Metz .

On April 1, 1941, the district boundaries were changed slightly. The communities Kolmen (Westmark) , Neunkirchen bei Bolchen , Sankt Franzen and Schwerdorf were integrated from the district Sankt Avold into the district Diedenhofen and the community Bettsdorf b. Diedenhofen was reclassified from the district of Diedenhofen to the district of Metz . At the same time the county government chief was now as in the German Reich as a district administrator designated. The following district administrators were employed during the occupation:

Between November and December 1944, when the soldiers of the Wehrmacht withdrew, the district was occupied by the advancing Allied forces and returned to France.

Land Commissioner

1940 Becker ( acting )-999900

District administrators

1940–1941 Becker00

1942 Schmitt-999900

1942–1943 Karl Wilhelm Schäfer00

1943–1944 Friedrich Kipp00

Local constitution

From January 1, 1941, the German municipal code of January 30, 1935 applied to all municipalities in the district. For this purpose, an implementing regulation was issued on February 1, 1941, according to which joint mayor's offices could be formed from several municipalities . On April 1, 1941, the district regulations for Lorraine of March 25, 1941 were introduced, according to which, among other things, the previous cantons were dissolved. The district was last divided into the cities of Diedenhofen , Hayingen , Sierck and 61 other communities. Depending on their size, these communities formed their own local police districts or were grouped into communal mayor's offices.

Change of place names (1940–1944)

After August 2, 1940, the official German place names valid in 1918 initially continued to apply. On January 25, 1941, all place names were officially set in a German version, some of which differed from the one in 1918, e.g. B .:

• Distroff : 1918: Diesdorf, 1941: Diesdorf (Westmark)
• Guénange : 1918: Niederginingen, 1941: Niederganingen
• Metzervisse : 1918: Metzerwiese, 1941: Metzerwiesen
• Ottange : 1918: Öttingen, 1941: Ottingen (Westmark)
• Serémange-Erzange : 1918: Schremingen, 1941: Schremingen-Ersingen
• Forest knowledge : 1918: forest meadow, 1941: forest meadows (Westmark)

literature

• Georg Lang: The government district of Lorraine. Statistical-topographical manual, administrative schematic and address book , Metz 1874, pp. 103–117 ( online )
• Eugen H. Th. Huhn: German-Lorraine. Landes-, Volks- und Ortskunde , Stuttgart 1875, pp. 310-344 ( online ).
• 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)

Web links

• District of Diedenhofen administrative history and the district administrators on the website territorial.de (Rolf Jehke), as of October 4, 2013.

Individual evidence

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