Provincial Association of the Rhine Province
The Provincial Association of the Rhine Province was a provincial association based in Düsseldorf from 1887 to 1953 , which, as a special purpose association of the Rhenish districts, performed tasks of local self-government . The tasks included the construction and maintenance of state show lakes , social welfare facilities, regulation of housing and settlement, and the promotion of science and art.
The provincial order of June 1, 1887 (GS. 249) was enacted under Interior Minister Robert Viktor von Puttkamer as the legal basis for the provincial association of the Rhine Province . By law of 1953, the tasks and facilities of the Provincial Association in North Rhine were taken over by the Rhineland Regional Association. The tasks and facilities of the provincial association in parts of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland were transferred to other organizations from 1947 onwards.
organs
The organs of the provincial association were the provincial parliament , the provincial committee and the governor .
Provincial Parliament
As an expression of self-government, the provincial association had a provincial assembly . From 1887 to 1920 it consisted of representatives elected by the counties and cities of the province. The provincial parliament usually met once a year in the Ständehaus in Düsseldorf and met for three days. The Rhine Province, as the controlling body and executive body of the central Prussian prerogatives , had its seat in Koblenz .
Provincial estates as a predecessor
The first parliaments in the Kingdom of Prussia were initially ordered under the name "Provinzialstands" on June 5, 1823, and were set up in the eight provinces as provincial representative bodies on a corporate basis between 1824 and 1827. The provincial estates of the Rhine Province met between 1826 and 1875.
Only landowners had the right of representation there. The aristocratic landowners each made up half, the urban landowners a third and the large peasant landowners a sixth of the deputies. The provincial estates should advise governments on laws relating to personal and property rights and taxes. He had legislative powers only in provincial municipal matters.
The provincial estates gathered from 1826 to 1843 in the old chancellery on the market, today part of the Düsseldorf town hall, from 1843 to 1851 in the former governor's palace on Mühlenstrasse, from 1851 to 1872 in the formerly electoral Düsseldorf palace on Burgplatz and between 1872 and 1879 in the Auditorium of the municipal secondary school on Klosterstrasse.
Direct election of the Provincial Parliament
For the first time on February 20, 1921, the provincial parliament was directly elected by the citizens of the province. Elections to the provincial parliament were held again on November 29, 1925, November 17, 1929 and March 12, 1933.
Election results
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100% missing seats = nominations not represented in the provincial assembly
End of the provincial assembly
As an expression of the dictatorship, the provincial parliaments and provincial committees were dissolved throughout Prussia in the first year of Nazi rule by a law of the Prussian state government under Göring of December 15, 1933, and no longer re-established.
On December 15, 1933, the "Law to Dissolve the Provincial Diets" was promulgated. The provincial administration was attached to the Oberpräsident von Lüninck in Koblenz, who from then on took over the tasks and responsibilities of the dissolved provincial parliament and appointed the governor to be his permanent representative at the provincial administration. The office remained in Düsseldorf.
Provincial Committee
The provincial parliament elected the provincial committee from among its members. The Provincial Committee had the task of preparing and implementing the resolutions of the Provincial Parliament. Provincial Committee and Administration of the Provincial Association sat in the Düsseldorf State House .
Governor
In the province, the governor (until 1897: "Landesdirektor") was an official elected by the Rhenish Prussian provincial parliament and a member of the provincial committee since 1875. He headed the provincial self-government, so from 1887 the provincial association, and was elected for a minimum of six and a maximum of twelve years. The regional council and technical officials, especially for the construction industry, stood by his side as auxiliary bodies. The provincial self-government had its seat in Düsseldorf since July 1, 1873. There, located directly on the knee of the Rhine , the official residence of the Rhenish governor from 1911 was Villa Horion next to the state house , in which the central administration of the Rhenish provincial association was housed.
The governors were:
- 1875–1883: Hugo von Landsberg-Velen and Steinfurt (1832–1901)
- 1883–1903: Friedrich Wilhelm Klein (1834–1908)
- 1903–1921: Ludwig von Renvers
- 1922–1933: Johannes Horion , center
- 1933–1945: Heinrich Haake , NSDAP
- 1945–1953: Wilhelm Kitz
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Schaffer / Landschaftsverband Rheinland: Archive of the provincial estates of the Rhine Province 1826–1888 ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . PDF file in the portal afz.lvr.de , Pulheim-Brauweiler 2007.
- ^ Ewald Grothe : From Catholic Day to the Festival of Generations. The history of the Landeshaus and Villa Horion 1909 to 2009. Düsseldorf 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-027862-4 .
