State Assembly of the Free State of Coburg

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Ketschentor and State Ministry, seat of the state assembly

The state assembly of the Free State of Coburg was the state parliament of the Free State of Coburg in 1919 and 1920 .

Establishment of the state parliament

After the November Revolution , Duke Carl Eduard of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was overthrown and the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha was converted into a free state (i.e. a republic ). Power initially lay with the workers 'and soldiers' councils. On January 14, 1919, the Executive Committee of the Workers 'and Soldiers' Council and the provisional state government issued an ordinance on elections to a regional assembly for the state of Saxony-Coburg . Thereafter, the previous Coburg state parliament was to be replaced by a freely elected state parliament. The state assembly still had 11 members. However, these were now elected by proportional representation in free and equal elections. Even the women's suffrage was introduced for the first time. The minimum age for the active election was 21, for the passive election 26 years. The whole country formed one constituency.

February 9, 1919 was set as the election date.

The electoral alliance of the bourgeoisie received 41.4%, the SPD 58.6%. On March 10, 1919, the state assembly passed the “Provisional Law on Legislation and Administration in the Free State of Coburg”, the provisional Coburg constitution.

A joint state parliament Saxony-Coburg and Gotha was no longer formed. According to the state treaty on the administration of the common affairs of the Free States of Coburg and Gotha of April 12, 1919, the auditing of the joint institutions was entrusted to five-member committees of the Coburg State Assembly and the State Assembly of the Free State of Saxony-Gotha .

End of the state parliament

With the state treaty between the Free States of Bavaria and Coburg on the unification of Coburg with Bavaria, the state's independence and with it the state parliament ended in 1920. The Bavarian state parliament thus became the successor to the state assembly. Three MPs from Coburg temporarily became MPs in the Bavarian State Parliament until the next Bavarian state election. On March 18, 1920, the state assembly elected the MPs Hermann Mämpel (SPD), Johann Stegner (SPD) and Hans Schack ( German Democratic Party , civil unity list) to the Bavarian state parliament.

Member of the National Assembly

Surname Political party Life dates job place Remarks
Max Oscar Arnold Civil unit list 1854-1938 Doll manufacturer Neustadt near Coburg Age President, Vice President
Reinhold Artmann SPD 1870-1960 Carpenter Coburg
Gustav Hess Civil unit list 1874-1940 farmer Neuses near Coburg
Ehrhard Kirchner SPD 1866-1927 AOK managing director Neustadt near Coburg President of the National Assembly
Franz Klingler SPD 1875-1933 Editor of the Coburger Volksblatt Coburg
Ernst Külbel Civil unit list 1863-1938 Malt manufacturer Coburg
Bernhard Lauer SPD 1867-1927 AOK employee Neustadt near Coburg
Hermann Mämel SPD 1866-1944 AOK administrative inspector Coburg Secretary
Dr. Hans Schack Civil unit list 1878-1946 Judge at the District Court of Coburg Coburg
Johann Stegner SPD 1866-1954 Brewer and host Frohnlach
Carl Wendt SPD 1887-1936 Machinist Rodach deputy secretary

The state assembly formed the following committees:

  1. Committee for the regulation of domain issues (Arnold, Kirchner, Mämpel, Schack, Stegner)
  2. Legal and Constitutional Committee (Artmann, Klingler, Külbel, Lauer, Schack)
  3. Finance and Audit Committee (Hess, Külbel, Mämpel, Stegner, Wendt)
  4. Petitions Committee (Arnold, Artmann, Hess, Kirchner, Klingler)

Meeting place

The state assembly met in the building of the State Ministry at the Ketschentor. This building, which later housed the Coburg Regional Court , was destroyed in the Second World War.

literature

  • Harald Mitteldorf: The forgotten parliaments: state parliaments and regional representations in the Thuringian states and areas 1919 to 1923, 2002.
  • Harald Mitteldorf: 175 years of parliamentarism in Thuringia, 1992, ISBN 386160500X .
  • Negotiations of the state assembly for the Free State of Coburg, digitized .
  • Collection of laws for Saxony-Coburg, digitized .
  • Ordinance on the elections to a regional assembly for the state of Saxony-Coburg. January 14, 1919; in: Collection of Laws for Saxony-Coburg, No. 2, p. 8 ff., digitized .
  • State treaty on the administration of the common affairs of the Free States of Coburg and Gotha. April 12, 1919; in: Collection of Laws for Saxony-Coburg, No. 17, pp. 117 ff., digitized .
  • Announcement regarding the state treaty between the Free States of Bavaria and Coburg on the unification of Coburg with Bavaria of February 14, 1920, together with the final protocol on the same day, as well as the Reich law regarding the unification of Coburg with Bavaria, of April 30, 1920. May 12, 1920 ; in: Collection of laws for Saxony-Coburg, p. 93 ff., digitized .
  • Michael Kotulla: Thuringian constitutional documents: from the beginning of the 19th century until today.