Bezirk Lothringen

Department of Lorraine
*Bezirk Lothringen* (German)
*Présidence de Lorraine* (French)
Department of Lorraine Bezirk Lothringen (German); Présidence de Lorraine (French)
Department of Alsace-Lorraine
1871–1918
	Flag Coat of arms
	; 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	564829
• 1910	655211
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
• Franco-Prussian War	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
• seized to France ; Versailles Tr. (effective)	; 10 January 1918
• reconstituted as; Moselle dept.	1920
Political subdivisions	8 rural districts (as of 1901); 1 urban district (Metz)
Preceded by	Succeeded by
	Moselle (old)
	Meurthe (department)
Moselle (department)
Today part of	France

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.

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