State election in Hamburg 1946
After the end of the Nazi era , on October 13, 1946, for the first time since 1932, an election for Hamburg's citizenship took place.
choice
There are 110 MPs in a majority vote by the British model selected. The SPD won 83 and thus three quarters of the seats.
Of the 958,454 eligible voters, 765,008 took part, i.e. H. 79.0%, in the election in which each voter had four votes.
Election result and distribution of seats
Official final result:
| Political party | be right | in percent | Seats | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPD | Social Democratic Party of Germany | 1.210.010 | 43.1% | 83 |
| CDU | Christian Democratic Union of Germany | 749.153 | 26.7% | 16 |
| PFD | Party of Free Democrats | 509.632 | 18.2% | 7th |
| KPD | Communist Party of Germany | 291,701 | 10.4% | 4th |
| RSF | Radical Social Freedom Party | 20,034 | 0.7% | - |
| DKP | German Conservative Party - German Right Party | 9,625 | 0.3% | - |
| RPD | Republican Party of Germany | 3,769 | 0.1% | - |
| Individual applicants | 13,881 | 0.5% | - | |
government
In the tradition of the Weimar Republic and with the idea of placing the new democracy on a broad foundation, a senate was formed from the SPD, PFD and KPD ( Senate Brauer I ), in which Max Brauer was elected First Mayor. Originally, the CDU should also be represented in the Senate. The reasons for the failure of the participation can no longer be determined today.
Demographics
| SPD parliamentary group | CDU parliamentary group | PFD group | KPD parliamentary group | total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proportion of women | 18% | 0% | 14% | 25% | 15% |
| First elected (in persons) | 30 (27%) |
Main issues during the 1st electoral term
The focus was on the reconstruction of the destroyed city and democracy.
The cold winters of 1946/47 and 1947/48 were dramatic. It had to be ensured that the energy production did not collapse and that the food situation of the population was ensured.
On the political level the main priority was the consolidation of the new democracy, the self-assertion of the citizens against the British occupying power and the drafting of a new electoral law.
See also
literature
- Peter Gabrielsson: Between surrender and the formation of a new Senate. The Hamburg administration in the first post-war years (1985) . In: Hamburg after the end of the Third Reich. Political rebuilding 1945/46 to 1949 . State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 2000.
- Hamburg citizenship: The Hamburg citizenship 1946–1971. Reconstruction and new construction . portrayed by Erich Lüth . Publisher Conrad Kayser, Hamburg 1971.
- Wilhelm Röhl : The immunity of the members of the Hamburg parliament according to the provisional constitution of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg of May 15, 1946 . Dissertation Univ. Hamburg, 1950.
- Tormin Walter: Hamburg after the end of the Third Reich political rebuilding in the immediate post-war period . In: Hamburg after the end of the Third Reich. Political rebuilding 1945/46 to 1949 . State Center for Political Education, Hamburg 2000.
Remarks
- ^ Elections in Hamburg. The general election from 1946 to 2001. Spiegel Online
- ↑ Each voter was allowed to cast up to four votes. The results and statistics are based on the information in: Die Hamburger Bürgerschaft 1946–1971, pp. 175–195 and: Helmut Bilstein (Ed.): State and parties in the city state of Hamburg or the “Ungovernability of Cities” , State Center for Civic Education Hamburg , 1996.
- ↑ The statistics are not very meaningful because the PFD and the KPD each had only one woman in their ranks, but the small number of absolute seats makes a very high quota of women appear.
- ↑ This refers to the parliamentarians who did not sit in the Appointed Citizenship of February 1946.
