Citizenship Board
Citizens' leadership council was the name for the municipal parliament in the cities in the Kingdom of Hanover and later in the Prussian province of Hanover .
In the Kingdom of Hanover there were initially individual municipal regulations for the individual cities, which included the constitutional charter for the royal residence city of Hanover , in which a council of citizens was already regulated as a municipal parliament. After the March Revolution, the municipal constitution in the Kingdom of Hanover was uniformly and newly regulated with the city regulations for the Kingdom of Hanover of May 1, 1851. $$ 82 ff. Regulated the mayor (the city council) and the mayor council. The citizen council was composed of 8 to 24 citizens. The city was able to determine the size of the council of citizens by statutes. There was compulsory voting . Eligible to vote were men from the age of 25 who had their place of residence in the respective city and who paid there through property or taxes of at least 2 Reichstalers and 16 Groschen ( census right to vote ). The term of office was 6 years. A third of the members were newly elected every two years. The election was made by secret, direct vote.
The board of directors of citizens had the right to budget with regard to city funds and the task of supervising the magistrate with regard to financial transactions. He was to be used in borrowing and real estate transactions. If the magistrate submitted other proposals to the council of citizens, these had to be decided by the council of citizens. The citizen council elected the chairman (spokesman) and his deputy from among its members. Even after the annexation of the kingdom by Prussia, the traditional name of Citizens' Board of Directors was continued for the city council.
For the Citizenship Board in Hanover see Citizenship Board (Hannover) .