Bezirk Lothringen, also called German Lorraine, was a government region in the western part of Alsace-Lorraine when it was part of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918.

Robert Viktor von Puttkamer was a Prussian statesman, most prominent in his roles as Prussian minister of public education and worship in 1879 and as interior minister in 1881, under his brother-in-la