Municipal Parliament of Kassel

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Estates building in Kassel

The Kommunallandtag Kassel (further name: Kurhessischer Kommunallandtag ) was a representative body in the Prussian province of Hessen-Nassau . It was located below the level of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of Hessen-Nassau and existed between 1868 and 1933 in the Kassel administrative district . The electoral term lasted six years and the number of MPs was derived from the population.

While a provincial parliament was formed for each province in the Kingdom of Prussia , after the annexation of the Duchy of Nassau , the Electorate of Hesse and the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt , a municipal parliament was formed for each of the three areas in the province of Hesse-Nassau :

The municipal association of Frankfurt existed until the reorganization by the provincial order for the province of Hessen-Nassau on June 8, 1885 and was added to the administrative district of Wiesbaden.

composition

The first communal parliament consisted of 64 members and its composition was based on the representation of the Electorate of Hesse. The first meeting took place on October 25, 1868 in the Ständehaus in Kassel . The meeting place was retained until the communal assembly was dissolved in 1933. The size of the municipal parliament changed nothing until the reorganization through the provincial order for the province of Hesse-Nassau of June 8, 1885; but the districts in the administrative district now formed the "Bezirksverband Kassel", a higher municipal association that took over the tasks in the administrative district that the provincial association fulfilled in other Prussian provinces . Only in the following municipal parliament of 1886 did the number of MPs decrease to 55.

The MPs were elected indirectly until 1920 . Only after the passing of the law on the elections to the provincial parliaments and to the district parliaments of December 3, 1920, general, equal, secret and direct elections of the deputies took place.

With the incorporation of the Free State of Waldeck into the Province of Hessen-Nassau on April 1, 1929, additional elections to the municipal parliament were held in June 1929.

The 65th meeting of the municipal council on April 5, 1933 was the last. Thereafter, the communal parliament was dissolved with the law on the transfer of competences from the provincial (municipal) state parliaments, the association assembly of the Ruhr coal district and the district councils to the provincial (state) committees, the association committee and the district committees of July 17, 1933.

Election results

The first direct elections for the Kassel municipal council took place on February 21, 1921. The last election was on March 12, 1933.

Election results for the Kassel municipal parliament in percent
KPD USPD SPD DDP center DVP DNVP Citizen DR NSDAP voter turnout Invalid votes
02/21/1921 4.8 2.7 34.8 7.4 13.7 3.3 3.4 - 29.9 - - 1.8
11/29/1925 6.7 - 33.1 5.6 14.9 - - 6.2 33.5 - - -
11/17/1929 6.5 - 32.8 4.7 13.0 3.2 - 5.5 27.9 6.3 - -
03/12/1933 7.0 - 21.2 0.9 10.9 - 7.5 - - 52.6 - -

This resulted in the following allocation of seats:

Allocation of seats for the municipal parliament in Kassel
KPD USPD SPD DDP center DVP DNVP Citizen DR NSDAP All in all
05.10.1920 0 4th 19th 8th 9 0 12 - 11 - 63
02/21/1921 2 1 18th 4th 7th 2 2 - 16 - 52
11/29/1925 3 - 15th 3 7th - - 0 15th - 43
11/17/1929 3 - 15th 2 6th 2 - 3 11 3 45
03/12/1933 3 - 9 0 5 - 3 - - 23 43

Chairperson

While the municipal parliament in Kassel existed, nine people held the chair. Between 1918 and 1932, Alexander von Keudell was chairman of the municipal council three times.

literature

  • 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 .

Notes / individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 34-35.
  2. ↑ LWV (Ed.): The Ständehaus in Kassel . ( HTML [accessed February 27, 2011]). HTML ( Memento of the original from June 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lwv-hessen.de
  3. ^ A b Valentin Schröder: Elections in Germany . Prussian Provincial Diets 1919–1933. Berlin 2009 ( HTML [accessed February 13, 2011]).
  4. ↑ 1925 of which craft and trade (HauGe) 3.4%, WP 2.6%, civil justice association (BGV) 0.1%, general economic association for tax reduction and austerity measures (AWSS) 0.1%; 1929 WP
  5. ↑ 1921 Hessian Working Group (HAG); 1925 Hessen-Nassau Working Group City and Country (HNASL); 1929 of which Hessian Working Group City and Country (HASL) 23.7%, CVD 4.3%
  6. ↑ Turnout figures were not available.
  7. ^ Numbers on invalid votes after 1921 were not available.
  8. ↑ 1929 WP
  9. ↑ 1919 Free Working Group; 1921 HAG; 1925 HNASL; 1929 HASL
  10. ^ 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 , p. 437.