Grønlands Landsråd

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Grønlands Landsråd ( German  Greenland Landsrat ) was the parliament of the colony parts of North Greenland and South Greenland from 1911 to 1950, as well as the Colony of Greenland from 1951 to 1952 and the part of the Empire of Greenland from 1953 to 1979. The North Greenland State Council had its seat in Qeqertarsuaq and South Greenland in today's capital Nuuk .

In 1979 it was dissolved and became the Inatsisartut, which still exists today .

history

Until 1950, the members of the regional council were elected indirectly by the council members. Most of the time, only men were eligible to vote. The women's suffrage was introduced 1948th From 1925 onwards, all male residents of Greenland, including resident Danes, were allowed to stand for election to the state council, whereas previously only Greenlanders could become members of the state council. A total of four Danes made use of this right. Despite the introduction of women's suffrage, only one woman, Elisabeth Johansen, was elected regional councilor until 1979 .

The elected state councils met once a year until 1962 and twice a year thereafter, with each legislative period comprising four to eight sessions. Votes were therefore initially usually held every six years, later every four years. Outside of the series, there were no meetings in 1935, 1942 and 1944, but two in 1959. The chairmanship of the regional council was incumbent on the two inspectors from 1911 to 1924 , then the two Landsfogedern and from 1950 the joint Landshøvding of Greenland, until the regional councilor was prompted by Landshøvding Niels Otto Christensen to elect a regional council chairman from its own ranks. The only two such regional council chairmen were the two cousins Erling Høegh (1967-1970) and Lars Chemnitz (1971-1978).

While the influence of the Provincial Council was still rather small at the beginning, it increased sharply later. Decisions on Greenland proposed by the National Council first had to be approved by the Danish government . In later times, for example after the decolonization , what was initiated by the government was only carried out if the Provincial Council had given its approval.

The candidates in the regional council elections were individual candidates until the first party-like electoral alliances were founded in the late 1960s, above all the hunters and fishermen's association KNAPK and Grønlands Arbejder Sammenslutning . It was not until the first election to Inatsisartut, which was introduced in 1979 as a result of the Hjemmestyre , that real parties entered.

District councils

Both state councils were divided into constituencies. The North Greenland Regional Council consisted of twelve constituencies and the South Greenland Regional Council of eleven constituencies. In 1918 the subdivision was as follows:

North Greenland Constituency South Greenland
Egedesminde Colony District
 1
Julianehåb Colony District
Egedesminde Colony District
 2
Julianehåb Colony District
Egedesminde Colony District
 3
Julianehåb Colony District
Christianshåb Colony District
 4th
Julianehåb Colony District
Jakobshavn Colony District
 5
Julianehåb Colony District
Jakobshavn Colony District
Ritenbenk Colony District
 6th
Frederikshåb Colony District
Godhavn Colony District
 7th
Frederikshåb Colony District
Godthåb Colony District
Mánaĸ colony district
 8th
Godthåb Colony District
Mánaĸ colony district
 9
Sukkertoppen Colony District
Mánaĸ colony district
 10
Sukkertoppen Colony District
Holsteinsborg Colony District
Upernavik Colony District
 11
Holsteinsborg Colony District
Upernavik Colony District
 12

Members of the National Councils

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Grønlands Landsråd in Den Store Danske Encyklopædi
  2. ↑ Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 234 ff .