Municipal Parliament of the Hohenzollern Lands

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The state house in Sigmaringen was the seat of the municipal parliament
Municipal parliament of the Hohenzollern Lands in the year 1896. The picture shows from left to right: State Secretary Steidle, Mayor Fischer, Teacher Mayer, Oberamtmann Longart, Kammerrat Kettner, Hofkammerrat Hülsemann, Oberamtmann von Meer, Oberamtmann Bahlmann, Oberamtmann Sauerland, Magistrate Kraus, Former Mayor , Mayor Kerle and Vogt Kaus. Sitting: Mayor Leuze, Government Commissioner Saint Pierre, District President von Schwarz, District Court President Evelt, District Court Counselor Graf, Regional Building Officer Leibbrand and City Mayor Liehner.

The communal parliament of the Hohenzollern Lands was from 1875 to 1973 communal parliament, that is, parliament of the Hohenzollern regional association .

prehistory

Historically, there were no estates in the Hohenzollern Principalities. The constitution of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen in 1831 first introduced a state parliament for Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , the state estates of the Principality of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen . In Hohenzollern-Hechingen , the Hechingen State Deputation was created in 1798 as a state representative.

With the takeover by Prussia in 1850, the work of these assemblies ended without a successor organization being created.

General

The Hohenzollern Lands were formally part of the Prussian Rhine Province . Due to the spatial separation, there was an organizational independence in most areas, so that the area sometimes had the character of its own province. This also applied to the parliament, which did not take place within the framework of the provincial parliament of the Rhine Province , but in a separate municipal parliament.

The municipal parliament from 1875

In 1853 all the mayors and bailiffs of the Hohenzollern Lands petitioned the Prussian king to set up a representative body. In 1867, the chief bailiff Emele started a new initiative. With the official and state regulations of April 2, 1873, the municipal parliament was created. It consisted of 16 members. A Virilstimme had the Prince of Hohenzollern, the princes of Fürstenberg (because of the rule and the rule Jungnau Trochtelfingen) and Thurn und Taxis (because of the domination Ostrach) had in common a voice. You could be represented in the state parliament. The cities of Hechingen and Sigmaringen each elected one member. Each of the four senior offices elected three MPs. The elections take place indirectly through the official meetings of the higher offices (without the virilists, who also had voting rights there). The election was for 6 years. Half of the MPs resigned every three years and the seats were filled by supplementary elections.

According to the Prussian constitution of 1920, the communal parliament elected a member to the Prussian State Council (from 1919 to 1930 Emil Belzer and from 1930 to 1933 Clemens Moser ).

The tasks of the municipal association were laid down in the Endowment Act of July 8, 1875. Maintenance and new construction of chaussed paths, support of district and municipal road construction, promotion of land improvement, poor people and corrigents, insane, deaf-mute and blind beings, support of benevolent foundations, landscape cultural preservation, monument preservation, state research and state libraries. Welfare, health and youth welfare were added later. The municipal parliament elected the state committee, which was responsible for the implementation of these tasks, and had the budget right over the budget of the municipal association.

MPs

Noblemen

The noblemen were each represented in the municipal assembly.

Hohenzollern Furstenberg Thurn and Taxis
Karl Anton von Hohenzollern (Virilstimme 1875 to 1885) Karl Egon III. zu Fürstenberg 1854-1892 Maximilian Maria von Thurn and Taxis 1862–1885
Leopold von Hohenzollern (Virilstimme 1885 to 1905) Karl Egon IV. Zu Fürstenberg 1892-1896 Albert von Thurn and Taxis (1867–1952) 1885–1918
Wilhelm von Hohenzollern (Virilstimme 1905 to 1918) Max Egon II zu Fürstenberg 1896–1918

For the MPs, see the following lists of MPs:

In the Weimar Republic

With the law on the reshuffle of the municipal parliament of the Hohenzollern Lands of July 16, 1919, the electoral procedure for the municipal parliament was redrafted in a democratic sense. The state parliament now consisted of 24 members who were chosen in free and equal elections. The term of office was three years. The first time was women's suffrage introduced.

The first election took place on September 30, 1919.

Results of the municipal state elections

The distribution of votes in the 1922 election is not available.

Share of votes of the parties in percent

election day center DDP SPD HZBB NSDAP
2December 3rd, 1922
11/29/1925 68.4 16.7 9.3 5.7
11/17/1929 61.3 15.4 10.7 8.3 4.2
303/12/1933 50.2 3.2 38.1

Distribution of seats

year total center DDP SPD DNVP KPD HZBB NSDAP
1919 24 19th 3 2
1922 23 16 4th 1 1 1
1925 24 17th 3 4th
1929 24 15th 3 2 4th
1933 23 12 2 9

For the elected MPs, see the following lists of MPs:

Prussian State Council

The municipal parliament of the Hohenzollern Lands elected a member of the Prussian State Council in the Weimar Republic . These were:

No. MP Political party Term of office Representative Political party Term of office
1 Hermann Eger center May 1921 to December 11, 1922 Dr. Emil Belzer center May 1921 to December 11, 1922
1 Dr. Emil Belzer center December 11, 1922 to September 18, 1930 † Paul Schaaff
Albert Vogel
Clemens Moser		 Center
center
center		 December 11, 1922 to October 24, 1924
January 2, 1925 to February 1926
February 1926 to September 30, 1930
1 Clemens Moser center September 30, 1930 to April 1933 Simon Hausch center June 1, 1932 to April 1933
1 Carl Lutterbeck NSDAP April to July 10, 1933 Heinrich Rinklef NSDAP April to July 10, 1933

Synchronization and dissolution

A municipal parliament was elected for the last time on March 12, 1933. Similar to the Reichstag elections that had taken place a week earlier , the election campaign was not free from interference. Nevertheless, the center again received a majority in the municipal parliament. With the Prussian law on the extension of the powers of the Oberpräsident (Oberpräsidentsgesetz) of December 15, 1933, the municipal parliament was dissolved on December 31, 1933.

After 1945

After the Second World War and the dissolution of the State of Prussia, the entire area became part of the State of Württemberg-Hohenzollern , which was founded in 1947 . The regional association of the Hohenzollern Lands continued to exist due to the partial right of self-government for Hohenzollern residents guaranteed under Article 2 of the Constitution. This meant that the districts of Sigmaringen and Hechingen were still granted a special parliament with the state communal parliament, which met in Sigmaringen parallel to the Bebenhauser state parliament . The state communal parliament now consisted of 20 members (plus the two district councilors, who were advisory members) who were elected by the district assemblies of the Hechingen and Sigmaringen districts, each district assembly elected ten members.

literature

  • Josef Mühlebach: The regional association of the Hohenzollerische Land. Historical development, legal basis and areas of responsibility, Sigmaringen 1972 (= work on regional studies of Hohenzollern, issue 10).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.verfassungen.de/bw/hohenzollern/verf33.htm Constitution of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen
  2. ^ Karl Heinrich Ludwig Pölitz: The European constitutions since 1789 up to the most recent time, 2nd edition 1847, p. 332 ff., Online
  3. ↑ http://www.verfassungen.de/bw/hohenzollern/vergleich98-i.htm State comparison for the Principality of Hohenzollern-Hechingen from June 26, 1798
  4. ↑ GS 1873, pp. 145 ff .; New version of October 9, 1900, GS 1900, p. 323
  5. ^ Official Journal of the Prussian Government in Sigmaringen: 1873, p. 191, online
  6. ↑ Georg Strutz: The municipal associations in Prussia: A representation of the cities, rural communities, districts and provincial constitutions applicable in the Prussian state, 2013, ISBN 9783662261811 , pp. 274 ff, partial digitization
  7. ^ Prussian Constitution, Article 32 (3), online
  8. ↑ GS 1875, p. 497
  9. ↑ Law on the reshuffle of the Hohenzollern Lands' communal parliament of July 16, 1919
  10. ↑ That was the Hohenzollern Farmers' Union - from 1929 - emerged from the citizens' party and farmers' union - in the 1925 election.
  11. ↑ The result for 1922 is not available.
  12. ↑ In 1933, the KFSWR gained 6.0% and the KPD 2.5% of the votes.
  13. ↑ a b The mandates of the KFSWR are entered in the column of the DNVP for the distribution of seats in 1933.
  14. ^ Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921-1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the State Councilors appointed in the “Third Reich” (= manuals on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 13). Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 3-7700-5271-4 , p. 280.
  15. ^ Constitution for Württemberg-Hohenzollern
  16. ↑ Law on the self-administration of the Hohenzollern Lands