the Saar Basin

Elections to the Consultative Council were held in the territory of the Saar Basin on 13 November 1932.

After World War I, the Saar Basin was administrated by the League of Nations.

Born in Saarbrücken, The Territory of the Saar Basin, he emigrated to Canada in 1948.

With the return of the Saar Basin to Germany in 1935, the two regions were merged and formed the new Gau Pfalz-Saar.

Following the war, he became President of the High Court of the Territory of the Saar Basin in Saarlouis in 1921.

The term thus encompasses the German state as specified in the Versailles Treaty and the Territory of the Saar Basin, which was re-integrated into Germany in 1935.

Schmidt was born on April 24, 1927, in Völklingen, a town in the then League of Nations mandate of the Saar Basin between Germany and France.

And it was from the Saar basin then that the Prussian forces counterattacked invading France, supported by North Germany and southern German states defeating France in 1871.

Born in the Saargebiet (Territory of the Saar Basin), Schuck volunteered for service in the Luftwaffe of the Third Reich in 1936 and was accepted in 1937.

There were 98 Gaue for Germany and an additional seven for Austria, the Sudetenland (in Czechoslovakia), Danzig and the Territory of the Saar Basin (then under French occupation).

Shifted operations from the Saar basin to the Ardennes and assisted the beleaguered garrison at Bastogne after the Germans had launched the counteroffensive that precipitated the Battle of the Bulge.

The inhabitants of the Saar basin were to be offered a plebiscite after 15 years to establish whether they wished to return to Germany, join France or remain under the supervision of the League of Nations.

From 1923 to 1926, he was a member of an International Commission to the Chinese Salt Trade before he was in 1927 appointed President of the Commission for the Government of the Saar Basin.

He was told, in addition, by Maurice Gamelin, that if the plebiscite in the Territory of the Saar Basin went for Germany it would be a serious military error for the French Army to intervene.

The situation was aggravated in early 1935 when the Territory of the Saar Basin was legally reunited with Germany and Hitler repudiated the Treaty of Versailles, accelerated his rearmament programme and introduced conscription.

Schellenberg was born in Saarbrücken, Germany, but moved with his family to Luxembourg when the French occupation of the Saar Basin after the First World War triggered an economic crisis in the Weimar Republic.

In April it took part in the reduction of the Saar Basin, and after VE-day was engaged in occupational duties, with Command Posts at Otterberg, Bad Kreuznach, Frankfurt, and Oranienstein.

The Territory of the Saar Basin was to be under the control of the League of Nations for 15 years, after which a plebiscite between France and Germany was to decide to which country it would belong.

Prior to its creation as the Territory of the Saar Basin by the League of Nations after World War I, the Saarland (or simply "the Saar", as is frequently referred to) did not exist as a unified entity.

Unlike mandated territories, which were entrusted to member countries, Danzig like the Territory of the Saar Basin remained under the authority of the League of Nations itself, with representatives of various countries taking on the role of High Commissioner:

As part of this policy, German factories were disassembled and moved to France, and the coal-rich industrial Saar Protectorate was occupied by France, as had been done post-World War I, in the Territory of the Saar Basin.

Its designation as a Restkreis arose from its being what was left of the Sankt Wendel district on the Prussian side of the border once the Territory of the Saar Basin had been formed under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles.

With the formation of the Territory of the Saar Basin in 1919, Baumholder was split from the district seat of Sankt Wendel by the newly drawn border and thereafter became the seat of the Restkreis (roughly "remnant district") of St. Wendel-Baumholder.

Justice left Britain again to become a policeman for the League of Nations in the Territory of the Saar Basin (a region of Germany occupied and governed by France and Germany under a League of Nations mandate originating in the Treaty of Versailles).