Civil Administration Area of Luxembourg
Civil Administration Area of Luxembourg CdZ-Gebiet Luxemburg Zivill Administratiouns Gebitt vu Lëtzebuerg Territoire du chef de l'administration civile en Luxembourg | |||||||||
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| 1940–1944 | |||||||||
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| Status | Civil administration under German occupation | ||||||||
| Capital | Luxembourg City | ||||||||
| Common languages | German (official language from 6 August 1940 onwards) Luxembourgish French (banned from 6 August 1940 onwards) | ||||||||
| Chief of the Civil Administration | |||||||||
• 1940–1944 | Gustav Simon | ||||||||
| Deputy Chief of the Civil Administration | |||||||||
• 1940 - 1944 | Heinrich Christian Siekmeier | ||||||||
| Establishment | 1945 | ||||||||
| Historical era | World War II | ||||||||
• Established | 1940 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1944 | ||||||||
| Population | |||||||||
• 1940 | 290,000 | ||||||||
| Currency | Reichsmark (declared legal currency on 26 August 1940 and declared the only legal currency on 20 January 1941) Luxembourgish franc (no longer legal currency on 20 January 1941 and after) | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Luxembourg | ||||||||
The Civil Administration Area of Luxembourg (German: CdZ-Gebiet Luxemburg), also translated as the Territory of the Chief of Civil Administration of Luxembourg, was an administrative division of Gau Moselland from 1940 to 1944.