Department of Lorraine
| Department of Lorraine | |||||||||||
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| Department of Alsace-Lorraine | |||||||||||
| 1871–1918 | |||||||||||
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Coat of arms
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Lorraine department with its districts in different colours (1890) | |||||||||||
| Capital | Metz | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
• 1900 | 6,223 km2 (2,403 sq mi) | ||||||||||
• 1910 | 6,228 km2 (2,405 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
• 1900 | 564,829 | ||||||||||
• 1910 | 655,211 | ||||||||||
| Government | |||||||||||
| • Type | regional administration | ||||||||||
| Bezirkspräsident | |||||||||||
• 1871–1872 | G.H. von Donnersmarck | ||||||||||
• 1872–1873 | Botho zu Eulenburg | ||||||||||
• 1875–1876 | Robert von Puttkamer | ||||||||||
| Präsident des Bezirkstags (speaker of parl.) | |||||||||||
• 1874–1881 | Auguste-François Adam | ||||||||||
• 1881–1911 | Édouard Jaunez | ||||||||||
• 1911–1918 | Georges Ditsch | ||||||||||
| Legislature | Bezirkstag (parliament) | ||||||||||
| Historical era | 19th and 20th century | ||||||||||
| 1870–1871 | |||||||||||
• seized to Germany | 19 May 1871 | ||||||||||
• reorganisation acc. to German standards | 1871 | ||||||||||
• Bezirkstag est. | 1874 | ||||||||||
• reg. carsign VI C | 1906 | ||||||||||
• French occupation | 1918–1920 | ||||||||||
10 January 1918 | |||||||||||
• reconstituted as Moselle dept. | 1920 | ||||||||||
| Political subdivisions | 8 rural districts (as of 1901) 1 urban district (Metz) | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | France | ||||||||||
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| Lorraine |
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Bezirk Lothringen (today's French: Présidence de la Lorraine, at the time translated into French: Département de la Lorraine i.e. Department of Lorraine), also called German Lorraine (Deutsch Lothringen), was a government region ("Bezirk") in the western part of Alsace-Lorraine when it was part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918.