Advisory State Assembly (Rhineland-Palatinate)
The advisory state assembly in Rhineland-Palatinate was a body set up after the Second World War to draft a state constitution . As the predecessor of the Rhineland-Palatinate Landtag , it corresponded to the Appointed Landtag of other countries in Germany.
history
The French military administration under the leadership of military governor General Marie-Pierre Kœnig (→ French zone of occupation ) ordered the creation of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate on August 30, 1946 and the establishment of a “consultative assembly” which, together with the provisional state government, drafted a constitution for the country should work out. For this purpose, a “mixed commission”, consisting of the members of the high presidencies of Rhineland-Hesse-Nassau and Hesse-Palatinate , was set up. The "Mixed Commission", which was decreed when the state was founded and which, as the highest state body, was tasked with preparing the state advisory assembly as well as securing the state administration, met for the first time on September 12, 1946 in Mainz during the festivities for the state's founding that took place there at the same time Marie-Pierre Kœnig's will in Mainz “as the capital of the new state” to underline the “importance attached to the creation of the new Rhineland-Palatinate state”.
After the local elections were held on September 15 and October 13, 1946, four electoral committees with a total of 1,655 members were formed. These were all district council members and all municipal council members of the communities with more than 7,000 inhabitants. On November 17, 1946, the electoral committees elected the members of the National Advisory Assembly according to the principles of proportional representation.
The Consultative State Assembly met for the first time on November 22, 1946 for its constituent meeting in the Koblenz City Theater . It saw itself as a parliamentary representative body and referred to itself in its deliberations as the "Landtag". Nevertheless, it could neither pass laws nor control the state government. On April 25, 1947, in the Hotel Rittersturz on the Rheinhöhen near Koblenz , she passed the draft of the state constitution and recommended that the population approve it in a referendum. In the roll call vote on the draft constitution, 70 of the 127 members of the National Consultative Assembly voted yes and 31 voted no. 26 MPs were not present at this meeting.
In the referendum on May 18, 1947, 53% of the population voted for and 47% against the draft constitution. The Consultative State Assembly then concluded its deliberations and dissolved. On the same day the election of the first Rhineland-Palatinate state parliament took place .
Members
After its election on November 17, 1946, the Consultative State Assembly consisted of a total of 127 members (→ Members of the Consultative State Assembly ). Of these, 70 belonged to the CDP / CDU (55.1%), 41 to the SPD (32.3%), nine to the KPD (7.1%), five to the SV (3.9%) and two to the LP (1, 6%), with the latter two forming a common fraction.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ulrich Springorum: Development and structure of the administration in Rhineland-Palatinate after the Second World War . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-05128-9 , pp. 185 .
literature
- Markus Schäfer: Data handbook on the history of the Landtag Rhineland-Palatinate 1947-2003 . Mainz 2005, ISBN 3-7758-1405-3