Bavarian State Parliament (Weimar Republic)

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Bavarian State Parliament
(1919–1933)
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Basic data
Seat: Munich
Elective system : Proportional representation
Number of votes: 1
Calculation method: Hagenbach-Bischoff method
Number of constituencies : 8th
Legislative period : 4 years
First session: February 21, 1919

The Bavarian Parliament was during the time of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), the state parliament of the Free State of Bavaria . Its predecessors were the Chamber of Deputies in the Bavarian State Assembly of the Kingdom of Bavaria , as well as the Provisional National Council after the fall of the monarchy in 1918.

Legal basis and structure

According to the constitution of the Free State of Bavaria, the state parliament was formed by general, equal, secret and direct elections according to the principle of proportional representation and set for a four-year legislative period. However, according to the constitution, the state parliament could resolve its dissolution at any time if at least two thirds of the deputies were present. The active right to vote was held by men and women aged 20 and over in possession of civil rights. Holders of the passive right to vote were eligible. Only Bavarian citizens entitled to vote, men and women, who had reached the age of twenty-fifth, had the right to vote.

The state parliament's negotiations were usually public. The drafts of the laws and the budget were to be made generally accessible before the first reading.

The state parliament elected a board from among its members, which consisted of a president, his representatives and the secretaries. The state parliament elected the Bavarian Prime Minister and confirmed the ministers. Individual ministers or the entire ministry could be forced to resign by means of a vote of no confidence (with a majority of the legal membership).

President of the Provisional National Council

Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the State Parliament

President

Surname Political party Term of office (beginning) Term of office (end)
Franz Schmitt SPD March 17, 1919 March 20, 1920
Heinrich Königbauer BVP March 19, 1920 July 31, 1929
Georg Stang BVP November 20, 1929 April 27, 1933
Hermann Esser NSDAP April 28, 1933 October 14, 1933


I. Vice-Presidents

Surname Political party Term of office (beginning) Term of office (end)
Heinrich Königbauer BVP March 17, 1919 March 18, 1920
Sigmund von Haller SPD March 18, 1920 July 14, 1920
Erhard Auer SPD July 15, 1920 June 2, 1924
Theodor Doerfler VB June 3, 1924 November 18, 1924
Erhard Auer SPD November 18, 1924 May 30, 1932
Franz Swede NSDAP May 31, 1932 April 27, 1933
Alfons Maria Probst BVP April 28, 1933 October 14, 1933

II. Vice-Presidents

Surname Political party Term of office (beginning) Term of office (end)
Karl Hammerschmidt DDP March 17, 1919 July 14, 1920
Fritz Goßler USPD July 15, 1920 December 1, 1920
Karl Ferdinand Prieger BMP December 1, 1920 November 18, 1924
Theodor Doerfler VB November 18, 1924 December 9, 1925
Karl Ferdinand Prieger DNVP December 9, 1925 June 20, 1928
Hans Hartmann DDP June 21, 1928 May 30, 1932
Erhard Auer SPD May 31, 1932 March 27, 1933
Franz Swede NSDAP April 28, 1933 October 14, 1933

State elections

The Bavarian state parliament met initially as a provisional national council from November 1918 to January 1919 and then regularly from 1919 to April 29, 1933. Bavarian state elections took place on January 12, 1919 (Palatinate February 2) , June 6, 1920 and April 6 and May 4, 1924 , May 20, 1928 and April 24, 1932 .

The state parliament, like the other state parliaments of the German Reich , was reformed and brought into line with the “ Law on the conformity of the states with the Reich ” of March 31, 1933, in accordance with the results of the Reichstag election of March 5, 1933. The Bavarian State Parliament, which had been brought into line, met for the last time on April 28 and 29, 1933 and passed the law "to remedy the plight of the Bavarian people and state", an enabling law in favor of the cabinet, with which the state parliament made itself superfluous. He was subsequently not called up again. On January 30, 1934, it was repealed by the law on the rebuilding of the Reich of January 30, 1934 ( RGBl.  I p. 75).

Seat

The Bavarian state parliament had the address Prannerstraße 16-23 in Munich . The building was on 24./25. April 1944 in a bombing of Royal Air Force destroyed in Munich. The building at Prannerstraße 8 is located on the property today.

Because of the civil war-like unrest during the Munich Soviet Republic in April 1919, the Landtag moved to Bamberg in 1919 to draw up the constitution of the Free State of Bavaria .

Succession

The successor parliament since 1946 with its seat in the Maximilianeum is also called the Bavarian State Parliament .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Constitutional document of the Free State of Bavaria
  2. ↑ With the dissolution of the Reichstag (RGBl. No. 113, p. 729), the Bavarian State Parliament was also dissolved in accordance with Section 11 of the Provisional Harmonization Act (RGBl. No. 29, p. 153).

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Coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 29 "  N , 11 ° 34 ′ 21.9"  E