State Parliament of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt

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Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt in Thuringia

The Landtag Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt was the Landtag of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . It existed for a good 100 years, from 1821 to 1923.

history

Article XIII of the German Federal Act obliged the members of the German Confederation to adopt state-owned constitutions . Friedrich Günther was the first prince in Thuringia to introduce one on January 8, 1816. The first state parliament was not convened until April 8, 1821. It consisted of five manorial landowners , five residents of the cities and five subjects who had landed property . A plenary session was usually held at the beginning of a six-year electoral term . It appointed a three-person committee that performed the tasks assigned to it by the plenary in the following years .

1848

At the time of the German Revolution , an extraordinary Landtag was convened by expanding the existing Landtag, which drafted a new electoral law. Parliament met in public for the first time. Verbatim minutes of his meetings have been handed down since then. According to the electoral law of June 9, 1848, 19 members were to be elected in equal but indirect elections. The state parliament elected on August 14, 1848 accompanied the administrative reform of July 1, 1850.

Constitution of 1854

The landscape constitution of 1816 and the amended state election law of 1848 were repealed by the Basic Law for Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt of March 21, 1854. It restricted the right of the monarch to legislate through the participation of the state parliament. This was initially elected for six years, from 1871 for three years by all male subjects over 25 years of age. The 16 MPs were elected in three constituencies . The large landowners elected three, the larger towns five, and the smaller towns and rural communities eight members by direct elections , who came out of equal and indirect elections. In addition to participating in the legislative process, Parliament was responsible for setting the state budget .

North German Confederation

After the principality had joined the North German Confederation in 1866 , the state parliament was composed of four representatives elected by the highest taxpayers in three constituencies and twelve members who came from general, direct and secret elections. This electoral system lasted until 1918.

free State

The electoral law for the Landtag of the Free State of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt stipulated the number of 17 members. They were determined in two constituencies through general, equal, secret and direct elections - also for women - according to proportional representation . In the Thuringian Landtag (Weimar Republic) , the Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Landtag existed as a regional representative until March 24, 1923; however, since 1921 the number of MPs had been reduced to ten.

president

From 1821 to 1846, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt had the special feature that the Prince's Landtag Commissioner was also the President of Parliament. From 1848, the parliamentary president was elected by parliament. From 1854, parliament chose a list of three candidates, of which the prince appointed one. This was always first on the list with one exception (the runner-up was named in January 1855). The following persons were speakers of parliament:

Members

literature

  • Jochen Lengemann: State Parliament and regional representation of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 1821-1923. Biographical manual . G. Fischer, Jena Stuttgart 1994.
  • Jochen Lengemann : The Presidents of the Schwarzburg-Rudolstädtischer Landtag; in: Journal of the Association for Thuringian History, Volume 46 (1992), ISSN 0943-9846, pp. 161-186

Web links

Individual evidence

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