Civil Administration Area of Lorraine


The Civil Administration Area of Lorraine, also translated as the Territory of the Chief of Civil Administration of Lorraine, was an administrative division of Gau Westmark from 1940 to 1945.

History

After the outbreak of the Second World War and the defeat of France in 1940, the department of Moselle, renamed CdZ-Gebiet Lothringen, was added to Gau Westmark on 30 November 1940. In Nazi Germany, a CdZ-Gebiet was the name for a new German territory, under civil administration. This territory was under the authority of Josef Bürckel, Reichskommissar and Gauleiter.
CdZ-Gebiet Lothringen was located in the southern part of Gau Westmark. It corresponds exactly to the current department of Moselle in France. The capital of CdZ-Gebiet Lothringen was Metz. It comprised the subdistricts of:
  1. Boulay, ;
  2. Château-Salins, ;
  3. Forbach, ;
  4. Metz, ;
  5. Metz, ;
  6. Sarrebourg, ;
  7. Sarreguemines, ;
  8. Saint-Avold, ;
  9. Thionville, ;
  10. Thionville, ;