Conservative state association in Saxony

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The Conservative State Association in Saxony was a conservative political grouping in the Kingdom of Saxony and also in the Weimar Republic. It was founded in 1875 and existed until the late 1920s. It belonged to the German Conservative Party at the Reich level , but retained a certain autonomy from the Prussian-dominated party. Further names are Conservative State Association for the Kingdom of Saxony , Conservative State Association in the Kingdom of Saxony , Conservative State Association in the Kingdom of Saxony and Conservative State Association .

history

A forerunner of the Conservative State Association was the Saxon Association founded on March 3, 1849 on the initiative of the then President of the First Chamber Friedrich von Friesen , to which exclusively aristocrats belonged. The Conservative State Association for the Kingdom of Saxony , founded in 1875, received an annual grant of 3,000 marks from the Saxon Association until around 1880 .

In 1878, the Conservative State Association joined the German Conservative Party , which had been founded in Prussia two years earlier, as a Saxon state association. In return, one or two representatives of the state association became members of the Eleven and Twelve Committees (narrower party executive), thereby helping to determine the policy of the German conservatives throughout the Reich. Before the First World War, these representatives were Paul Mehnert and Dresden's Lord Mayor Otto Beutler . The Conservative State Association for the Kingdom of Saxony “was not only one of the oldest, but also the most important organization of the Conservatives outside Prussia.” There was also a conservative association for Lusatia, which consciously saw itself as independent of the Saxon State Association.

Karl Gustav Ackermann

Many of his deputies sat in the Saxon parliaments during the imperial era, from 1877/78 to 1917/18 , especially for the rural constituencies. In parliament in 1907/09, for example, they represented 35 of the 45 rural constituencies, plus 11 seats in the urban constituencies. With Ludwig Haberkorn (1877–90), Karl Gustav Ackermann (1891–98) and Paul Mehnert (1899–1909), the Conservative State Association provided the presidents of the Second Chamber for a long time. Several leading members of the state association also represented their policy at the national level. B. Karl Gustav Ackermann as representative of the constituency of Dresden-Land left of the Elbe and Dippoldiswalde (1877–1893), Heinrich von Friesen-Rötha as a member of the Meißen – Großenhain – Riesa (1887–1893) and Paul Mehnert for Döbeln – Nossen – Leisnig (1890–1893) Member of the Reichstag in Berlin, where they sat in the German conservative parliamentary group.

After the abolition of the three-class suffrage in Saxony, the conservatives fell from 46 to 28 seats in the second chamber in the 1909 state elections. They lost the presidency to the national liberal Paul Vogel . The regional association then cooperated with the anti-Semitic "Saxon SME Association" under Theodor Fritsch . Saxon conservatives such as Dresden's Lord Mayor Beutler took part in the Reichsdeutscher Mittelstandsverband in 1911 . In 1913 the national association had around 20,000 members. In the final phase of the First World War, leading members of the state association, including chairman Mehnert, joined the German Fatherland Party . A large part of the members participated in the founding of the German National People's Party (DNVP) after the November Revolution of 1918 . This provided 13 of the 96 seats in the first post-revolutionary parliament, the Saxon People's Chamber .

In the estate of Heinrich von Friesen-Rötha, chairman of the regional association from 1880, there is a large inventory of archival material relating to the regional association. Friesen-Rötha's correspondence with the association begins in 1875.

Chairperson

Heinrich von Friesen-Rötha

Fonts (selection)

  • The fatherland. Conservative magazine for the Saxon people. Organ for communications from the Conservative National Association and all conservative local associations. (Party newspaper)
  • The conservatives in the struggle against the overwhelming power of Judaism and for the preservation of the middle class. Edited by the Conservative State Association in the Kingdom of Saxony. Leipzig 1892.

literature

  • Wolfgang Schröder : The genesis of the “Conservative State Association for the Kingdom of Saxony”. In: Simone Lässig , Karl Heinrich Pohl (Hrsg.): Saxony in the Empire. Politics, economy and society in upheaval. Saxon State Center for Political Education, 1997, pp. 149–176.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Schröder: The genesis of the "Conservative State Association for the Kingdom of Saxony". In: Simone Lässig, Karl Heinrich Pohl: Saxony in the Empire. Politics, economy and society in upheaval. Saxon State Center for Political Education, 1997, pp. 149–176, here p. 164.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Schröder: The genesis of the "Conservative State Association for the Kingdom of Saxony". In: Simone Lässig, Karl Heinrich Pohl: Saxony in the Empire. Politics, economy and society in upheaval. Saxon State Center for Political Education, 1997, pp. 149–176, here p. 150.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Schröder: The genesis of the "Conservative State Association for the Kingdom of Saxony". In: Simone Lässig, Karl Heinrich Pohl: Saxony in the Empire. Politics, economy and society in upheaval. Saxon State Center for Political Education, 1997, pp. 149–176, here p. 152.
  4. ^ A b Joachim Bohlmann: The German Conservative Party at the End of the Empire: Standstill and Change of a Declining Organization. Diss. Uni Greifswald, 2011 (PDF), pp. 171–173.
  5. ^ Joachim Bohlmann: The German Conservative Party at the end of the Empire: Standstill and change in a declining organization . Diss. Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, 2011, pp. 172–173.
  6. ^ Joachim Bohlmann: The German Conservative Party at the end of the Empire: Standstill and change in a declining organization . Diss. Ernst Moritz Arndt University Greifswald, 2011, p. 240.
  7. ^ Joachim Bohlmann: The German Conservative Party at the end of the Empire: Standstill and change in a declining organization . Dissertation Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, 2011. (Chapter 10: The German Conservative Party in the Weimar Republic, pp. 250–260)
  8. ↑ Holdings: 20532 Rittergut Rötha with Trachenau;…;…;…; 3.2.13.6 Conservative State Association in the Kingdom of Saxony.
  9. ↑ a b c On the history of the conservative state association in the Kingdom of Saxony . In: The Fatherland. Conservative weekly paper for the Saxon people. Organ of the Conservative State Association and all conservative associations in the Kingdom of Saxony . Anniversary number, December 9, 1900, pp. 1–4, here p. 2.
  10. ↑ On the history of the Conservative State Association in the Kingdom of Saxony . In: The Fatherland. Conservative weekly paper for the Saxon people. Organ of the Conservative State Association and all conservative associations in the Kingdom of Saxony . Jubilee number, December 9, 1900, pp. 1–4, here p. 4.
  11. ^ Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder: Saxon Parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , p. 462.
  12. ^ Address book Dresden 1907
  13. ^ Address book Dresden 1908 and 1909
  14. ^ Elvira Döscher, Wolfgang Schröder: Saxon Parliamentarians 1869–1918. The deputies of the Second Chamber of the Kingdom of Saxony in the mirror of historical photographs. A biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 2001, ISBN 3-7700-5236-6 , p. 426.
  15. ↑ The Fatherland. Conservative magazine for the Saxon people. Organ for communications from the Conservative National Association and all conservative local associations
  16. ^ Hilmar Schmuck, Willi Gorzny, Peter Geils: Complete directory of German-language literature (GV); 1700-1910. Volume 78: Kod-Kon. de Gruyter, 2019, p. 401.