State election in Hamburg 1957
On November 10, 1957, the election for the 4th electoral term of the citizenship of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg (state election ) took place. There were 120 members to vote. The turnout of the citizens of Hamburg was 77.3%.
choice
After the Hamburg bloc, as an association of bourgeois parties, succeeded in replacing the Social Democrats in the 1953 election, the SPD was able to win back the majority in the 1957 election. A continuation of the bloc was not possible due to the fact that the parties were divided. The election was held for the first time as a pure proportional representation with bound lists and the city provided a single constituency. For this reason, too, electoral alliances in the individual districts or former constituencies had become dispensable.
The German Party (DP), which had moved into parliament with the Hamburg block in 1953, failed to move back into the parliament. Until the Greens (GAL) first moved in in 1982, it was left to the parties of the SPD, CDU and FDP alone to provide the MPs. No other party made the leap over the five percent hurdle in those years. The KPD (still 3.2% of the vote in the 1953 election) was no longer represented in this and subsequent elections because of the party ban in 1956.
Election result and distribution of seats
The result of the election for citizenship in 1957 was:
| Political party | be right | in percent | Seats |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPD | 553,390 | 53.9% | 69 |
| CDU | 330.991 | 32.2% | 41 |
| FDP | 88.201 | 8.6% | 10 |
| DP | 42,285 | 4.1% | - |
| DRP | 4,109 | 0.4% | - |
| UDM | 3,594 | 0.4% | - |
| BdD | 3469 | 0.3% | - |
| DG | 485 | 0.1% | - |
See also: List of members of the Hamburg Parliament (4th electoral term)
government
The SPD-led government provided a well-known mayor , Max Brauer (1946–1953). Despite the absolute majority, the post of second mayor ( Edgar Engelhard ) and three senatorial seats were given to the FDP. Shortly after the election it became known that Max Brauer would not head the government for the entire electoral term. The year 1960 was planned for the resignation and handover of the post of mayor to Paul Nevermann ; this was done a little later on January 1, 1961.
From this election on, the SPD provided the first mayor for over four decades and was only replaced by the CDU in 2001 with Ole von Beust .
See: Senate Brauer III
Election campaign
Early in the election campaign, all parties, especially those in the collapsed Hamburg bloc, prepared to fight for the votes alone. The SPD campaigned to form a coalition, even if it would have an absolute majority in parliament.
Main issues during the 4th legislature
Two topics that directly revolved around the citizenship were the 100th anniversary of the elected citizenship (1859–1959) and the farewell to Adolph Schönfelder , the long-standing mayor who went into “retirement” in 1960.
Another topic was closely related to federal and world politics. The citizens opposed a decision of the Bundestag from March 25, 1958 to equip the Bundeswehr with "tactical nuclear weapons". After one of the largest post-war demonstrations in Hamburg with an estimated 100,000 people on April 17th of the same year, the citizens passed a law on May 9th for a referendum on this issue. This vote, which was scheduled for June 8th, was overturned on May 27th with an interim order and on July 30th with a final ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court.
swell
- Hamburg election results
- The Hamburg citizenship 1946–1971. Reconstruction and new construction (illustrated by Erich Lüth on behalf of the Hamburg citizenship ), Hamburg 1971 (especially pages 72–82.)
Individual evidence
- ^ Elections in Hamburg. The general election from 1946 to 2001 Spiegel Online
- ^ Citizenship elections Hamburg state votes elections in Germany
- ↑ Absolute majority for the SPD in Hamburger Abendblatt of November 10, 1957. Printed in Erik Verg : Forty Years of Hamburger Abendblatt , Axel Springer Verlag, Hamburg 1988, p. 96.
- ↑ More than hundreds of thousands at the protest rally "Kampf dem Atomtod" in Hamburger Abendblatt from April 1957. Printed in Erik Verg : Forty Years of Hamburger Abendblatt , Axel Springer Verlag, Hamburg 1988, p. 101. As well as explanatory text on this article in ibid.
