Committee of the Baltic German Parties

The Committee of the Baltic German Parties ( AP ) was an alliance of parties from the German minority in Latvia . This party alliance, previously known as the Baltic National Committee , entered the Saeima elections with a joint electoral list . Its members of parliament were listed under the Baltic German Party of Latvia , although there was no party of that name.

The committee included:

Political party	Abbr.	Alignment
German-Baltic Democratic Party	DbDP	Middle-Bourgeois
German-Baltic Progressive Party	DbFP	Middle-Bourgeois
German-Baltic Reform Party	DbRP	Middle-Bourgeois
German-Baltic People's Party	DbVP	Right
German-Baltic unification party	DbEP	Middle-civil / interest representation of Libau
Mitau voter association	Wvb Mitau	Middle-civil / representation of interests of Mitau

Election results

choice	be right	Mandates
1920 Satversmes Sapulce	32.25	6 (of 150)
1922 Saeima	42,088	6 (out of 100)
1925 Saeima	42,248	4 (out of 100)
1928 Saeima	43,352	6 (out of 100)
1931 Saeima	45,098	6 (out of 100)

On May 15, 1934, after a coup by Kārlis Ulmanis , the parties were banned and the Saeima dissolved.

MPs

Satversmes Sapulce 1920-1922

Surname	Political party	annotation
Wilhelm von Fircks	DbVP
Peter Kluge	DbFP
Egon Knopp	DbEP
Edwin Magnus	DbRP
Arthur Reusner	DbVP
Paul Schiemann	DbDP	Group leader

I. Saeima 1922-1925

Surname	Political party	annotation
Wilhelm von Fircks	DbVP
John Karl Hahn	DbEP
Karl Keller	DbDP
Egon Knopp	DbEP
Paul Schiemann	DbDP	Group leader
Manfred von Vegesack	DbRP

II. Saeima 1925-1928

Surname	Political party	annotation
Alfred Alsleben	Elected "International Homeowners" on the Latvian list
Wilhelm von Fircks	DbVP
John Karl Hahn	DbEP
Karl Keller	DbDP
Paul Schiemann	DbDP	Group leader

III. Saeima 1928-1931

Surname	Political party	annotation
Wilhelm von Fircks	DbVP	Group leader March 10, 1931 - July 23, 1931
John Karl Hahn	DbEP
Woldemar Pussoll	DbVP
Paul Schiemann	DbDP	Chairman of the parliamentary group / resignation of the mandate March 10, 1931
Lothar Schoeler	DbRP
Walter Sadowski	DbDP	from March 10, 1931
Werner Westermann	Wvb Mitau

IV. Saeima 1931-1934

Surname	Political party	annotation
Wilhelm von Fircks	DbVP	Waiver of mandate October 18, 1933
John Karl Hahn	DbEP
Karl Keller	DbDP	from October 18, 1933
Woldemar Pussoll	DbVP
Paul Schiemann	DbDP	Group chairman / resignation October 19, 1933
Lothar Schoeler	DbRP	Group leader from October 19, 1933
Helmuth Stegmann	DbLP	from October 19, 1933
Werner Westermann	Wvb Mitau

literature

• Mads Ole Balling: From Reval to Bucharest - Statistical-Biographical Handbook of the Parliamentarians of the German Minorities in East Central and Southeastern Europe 1919-1945, Volume 1, 2nd Edition . Copenhagen 1991, ISBN 87-983829-3-4 , pp. 133 .