General Council (Palatinate)
The General Council was a political level of representation in the Kingdom of Bavaria , which existed from 1816 to 1820 in the Rhine district ( Palatinate ) with its seat in Speyer .
history
The General Council had existed since the French period (from 1802 as conseil général des Département du Mont-Tonnerre ) and was retained as an organ after the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1816. On September 24, 1816, the Bavarian King Maximilian I Joseph re-convened the General Council, whose 20 members, each nominated by the King for three years, came from the upper classes. It developed into an effective representative body of the Palatinate in the entire Bavarian state. From 1820 the district administrator (not to be confused with today's political office) was created as the successor body . District administrators were introduced to Bavaria on the right bank of the Rhine from 1828 on the initiative of King Ludwig I. From 1852 to 1919 there were district communities with the elected district administrator as the representative body, whose resolutions came into force after being recognized by the king. The respective district government was responsible for managing the district administration.
See also
literature
- Hermann Rumschöttel , Michael Unger: The Bavarian districts in the 19th and 20th centuries - basic lines of historical development. in: Christoph Becker: The higher municipal associations in Germany - model of the future. , LiT Verlag, Berlin, 2017.