State Assembly of the Free State of Coburg
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:
- Committee for the regulation of domain issues (Arnold, Kirchner, Mämpel, Schack, Stegner)
- Legal and Constitutional Committee (Artmann, Klingler, Külbel, Lauer, Schack)
- Finance and Audit Committee (Hess, Külbel, Mämpel, Stegner, Wendt)
- 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.