State election in Hamburg 1953

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(in %)
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
50.0
45.2
3.2
1.6
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 1949
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
+2.2
+2.4
-4.2
-0.4
Otherwise.
Template: election chart / maintenance / notes
Remarks:
a 1949 VBH 34.5%, DP 13.3%
  
A total of 120 seats

On November 1, 1953, the election for the third electoral term of the citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg ( citizenship election ) took place. This article deals with the election, the distribution of seats and the main topics of the electoral term.

choice

After the Father City Association of Hamburg, a block of bourgeois parties, failed to replace the Social Democrats in the 1949 election , the newly formed Hamburg block was able to implement this project with 50% of the votes cast. The four parties CDU , FDP , DP and BHE had come together to form this civic bloc before the election in the summer of 1953 and created a joint list. The idea of including the DKP was dropped because the party was insignificant.

The SPD failed not least because of a very emotional and sometimes tough election campaign. This should not break the social democratic dominance in the Hanseatic city. In the next election in 1957, the SPD was brought back to the government bank with an absolute majority.

Election result and distribution of seats

The official final result of the election for citizenship was:

Political party be right in percent Seats
Hamburg block 504.084 50.0% 62
SPD 455.402 45.2% 58
KPD 32,433 3.2% -
DRP 7,466 0.7% -
FSU 5,915 0.6% -
NSD 2,741 0.3% -
Individual applicants 31 0.0% -
total 1,008,072 100% 120

See also: List of members of the Hamburg Parliament (3rd electoral term)

government

Since the First Mayor Max Brauer did not want to resign after the election and the existing SPD Senate continued to exist as a minority government, it was voted out by a constructive vote of no confidence . The civic block now provided a senate made up of the CDU, FDP and DP, in which Kurt Sieveking was elected First Mayor. The government only had a slim majority in the citizenry, but for the first time after the end of the war it was able to appoint a non-social democratic first mayor. Until the election of Ole von Beust in 2001, it was to be the last election in which a bourgeois coalition could provide the head of government.

Election campaign

In the election campaign, the school reform that the SPD Senate had implemented in the second electoral term was one of the central themes. One of the main points of the reform was 6 years of primary school. Mainly this fact has been denounced by the opposition, parents and the press. The reform from 1949/50 was already controversial at this time, but it never really got out of the mind of the people of Hamburg . The SPD hoped that "the emotional resistance to the extended primary school years" would subside, but had to face the issue again in the 1953 election campaign.

One innovation in the election campaign was a free newspaper that was distributed to all households in Hamburg. “ Der Hanseat ” had a circulation of well over 500,000 and was “disguised” as a non-partisan newspaper. Otto Link was named as the publisher in the first newspapers and the printing was done by Gruner-Verlag . On the one hand, the politics of social democracy were attacked excessively and, on the other hand, articles about politicians of the opposition were published. In response to the "Hanseatic League", the citizenship had the organ "The Answer - Message to the Population of Hamburg" printed. This press product, which was only printed once, deals in detail with the attacks against the government. The CDU politician Erik Blumenfeld (MdHB 1946–1955) was involved in the publication of the “Hanseatic” .

Main issues during the 3rd electoral term

There was a government crisis in 1956. The SPD and the DP , which was involved in the government , agreed to put a constructive vote of no confidence in Mayor Kurt Sieveking and to reinstate the former mayor Max Brauer . Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer sent the DP MP Hans-Joachim von Merkatz , who was involved in the federal government , to Hamburg. He was supposed to persuade his Hamburg regional association to remain loyal to the incumbent mayor. Adenauer's action was successful and the agreements between the SPD and the DP were not kept. The vote of no confidence was rejected by 57 (out of 120) votes against Sieveking.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elections in Hamburg. The general election from 1946 to 2001 Spiegel Online
  2. ^ Citizenship elections Hamburg state votes elections in Germany
  3. ↑ The results and statistics are based on the information from: 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 Political Education Hamburg, 1996.
  4. ↑ The Hamburg block as an amalgamation of CDU , FDP , DP and BHE .
  5. ↑ https://www.wahlen-in-deutschland.de/blHamburg.htm
  6. Jumped up in the 1946 and 1949 elections as Radical Social Freedom Party (RSF).
  7. ↑ Own calculation.
  8. ↑ The Hamburg Citizenship, pp. 55–64.
  9. ↑ 1956 Adenauer saved the bourgeois senate in Die Welt (September 4, 2003)

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