District Council (Hessen-Homburg)
The district council was the representative of the people in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Homburg in the reaction era .
background
After the March Revolution , the Landtag of Hesse-Homburg was created in Homburg to represent the people. With the victory of the reaction, it was abolished on April 20, 1852 by landgrave decree of Landgrave Ferdinand , which suspended the constitution.
The so-called state committee acted as successor. This included 4 representatives of the district councils of the two Homburg offices, Amt Homburg and Oberamt Meisenheim . However, the competencies of the state committee were limited. He was only entitled to an advisory role.
The district councils
From 1853 onwards, the district councils were partly appointed by the landgrave and partly elected by the local councils of the individual communities. 5 members were appointed, 11 were elected in the Homburg Office (4 of them by the City of Homburg), and 13 in the Meisenheim Office. The election was made by the community boards of the communities in the respective offices. The electoral term was 6 years. The landgrave had the right to shorten this period. The regular meetings of the district councils took place in December in Homburg vor der Höhe and Meisenheim . The Landgrave was allowed to convene extraordinary meetings.
The district councils had the right to choose their own chairman.
The skills were low. The district councils were merely an advisory body. Laws that only affected the respective office had to be discussed with him (in urgent cases they could also be passed without consultation). The state budget and state-wide laws were discussed in the state committee. The district councils had the right to petition the landgrave to propose legislation.
With the end of the landgraviate in 1866, the time of the district councils ended. The district councils in the Obertaunuskreis and the Meisenheim district were their successors .
people
District Council Homburg
- Heinrich Will , temporarily chairman of the Homburg district council, was appointed by the landgrave
- Official Assessor Ludwig Stumpff , appointed by the Landgrave
- Tax Commissioner and Official Geometer Weigel from Gonzenheim , appointed by the Landgrave
- Protestant pastor Dröscher, appointed by the landgrave
- Catholic Pastor Weber from Kirdorf, appointed by the Landgrave
- Georg Deininger , elected member from Homburg
- Jakob Bieber , elected member from Homburg
- Georg Schudt , elected member from Homburg
- Ernst Menges , elected member from Homburg
literature
- Hugo Franz von Brachelli : North German Federal States, Volume 1, 1856, pp. 684–685, online
- Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , pp. 32-33.
Individual evidence
- ^ Members from Homburg in 1865, according to: Friedrich Lotz, Heinz Grosche: History of the city of Bad Homburg before the height: Die Kaiserzeit, 1964, ISBN 9783782903349 , pp. 35–36