Landtag Commissioner
As Parliament Commissioner or Landeskommissarius in were the Holy Roman Empire and in some cases until well into the 19th century, the representatives of the respective sovereigns in the assemblies of called.
In the old state parliaments, the state parliament commissioners solemnly opened the assembly on behalf of the sovereign and had his state parliament proposition (i.e. his goals, demands and intentions) read out. In the further course of the negotiations, the commissioners represented the interests of the sovereign to the assembly and negotiated the state parliament with them. In the end, they sent the state parliament's proposals to the prince. In the state parliament of the Duchy of Westphalia these were provided with a detailed report by the state parliament commissioners, who often pre-formulated the decision of the prince.
Also in the 19th century the representatives of the sovereign were often referred to as state parliament commissioners at the state assemblies and parliaments. This was e.g. This is the case, for example, in Kurhessen and the provincial parliaments in Prussia . From 1821 to 1846, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt had the peculiarity that the Prince's Landtag Commissioner was also the President of Parliament in the Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Landtag . In one function he represented the prince in parliament, in the other he represented the parliament's positions to the outside world and to the prince.
Such a position was also created in Bavaria in 1949. However, this was now the representation of the state government in relation to parliament.
The term had a different meaning at the state parliament in Austria ob der Enns . There, the members of the state parliament of the two upper classes were referred to as state parliament commissioners.
literature
- Landtag Commissioner . In: Former Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 8 , issue 5/6 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1988, ISBN 3-7400-0075-9 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).
- Community and state in ancient Europe . P. 162 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ to: Horst Conrad: The nobility in the Duchy of Westphalia . In: Ingrid Reissland (Hrsg.): From the electoral Cologne crook to the Hessian lion to the Prussian eagle. Secularization and its consequences in the Duchy of Westphalia. 1803-2003 . Arnsberg, 2003, p. 33 f.
- ^ Jochen Lengemann : The Presidents of the Schwarzburg-Rudolstädtischer Landtag . In: Journal of the Association for Thuringian History , Volume 46, 1992, pp. 161–186, ISSN 0943-9846 .
- ^ The minutes of the Bavarian Council of Ministers, 1945-1954 . P. 326