State election in the People's State of Hesse in 1924

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The state election in the People's State of Hesse in 1924 was the third in the People's State of Hesse to become the State Parliament of Hesse . It took place on December 7, 1924 and led to a confirmation of the governing coalition with only low votes by the parties compared to the previous state election in the People's State of Hesse in 1921 . The December 1924 Reichstag elections took place on the same day .

initial situation

While the Reichstag election in May 1924 had strengthened the radical parties, the state election took place six months later in a politically more relaxed phase. The end of hyperinflation had resulted in economic stabilization. The further background to the political situation is presented in the Reichstag election in December 1924 .

In the People's State of Hesse, Ulrich II's cabinet had ruled as a Weimar coalition since the first election in 1919 .

Election result

State election of December 7, 1924
Turnout: 75.3%
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
35.2%
16.1%
13.2%
11.8%
8.5%
7.0%
5.4%
1.4%
0.9%
HBB
NF
WP
Gains and losses
compared to 1921
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
+ 2.6  % p
-1.3  % p
-1.9  % p
-2.8  % p
+1.2  % p
+1.6  % p
+1.5  % p
+1.4  % p
+ 0.9  % p
HBB
NF
WP
Result of the state election of December 7, 1924
Subject of
evidence 		be right Seats ±
number in %
Eligible voters 846.196 100.0
Voters 637.264 75.3
Invalid votes 12,132 1.9
Valid votes 625.132 100.0 70 0
from that
Social Democratic Party of Germany 220.108 35.2 26th +2
center 100.384 16.1 11 −2
Hessian farmers' union and Rhenish Hessian country list 82,742 13.2 9 −2
German People's Party 73.930 11.8 8th −2
German Democratic Party 53,301 8.5 6th +1
German National People's Party 43,717 7.0 5 +2
Communist Party of Germany 33,689 5.4 4th +2
National Socialist Freedom Movement 8,478 1.4 1 +1
Economic party of the German middle class 5,851 0.9 - -
United working farmers in Hessen 2,932 0.5 - -

For the elected MPs see the list of members of the Landtag (Volksstaat Hessen) (3rd electoral term) .

The results of the provincial elections were as follows

province KPD SPD DDP center DVP DNVP HBB (*) Ver. sh agr. NSFB WP total
Absolutely
Starkenburg 24157 113928 21391 45418 36000 22162 27473 1474 4270 3973 300246
Province of Upper Hesse 4721 47151 10120 7740 14363 13551 44571 1246 2906 1463 147832
Rheinhessen 4811 59029 21790 47226 23567 8004 10698 212 1293 415 177045
Hesse 33689 220108 53301 100384 73930 43717 82742 2932 8478 5851 625123
percent
Starkenburg 8th 37.9 7.1 15.1 12 7.4 9.2 0.5 1.4 1.3 100
Upper Hesse 3.2 31.9 6.8 5.2 9.7 9.2 30.1 0.8 2 1 100
Rheinhessen 2.7 33.3 12.3 26.7 13.3 4.5 6th 0.1 0.7 0.2 100
Hesse 5.4 35.2 8.5 16.1 11.8 7th 13.2 0.5 1.4 0.9 100
  • Hessischer Bauernbund and Rheinhessische Landesliste

The results of the district elections were as follows

district KPD SPD DDP center DVP DNVP HBB (*) Ver. sh agr. NSFB WP total
Absolutely
Darmstadt district 2926 32161 6601 3834 18137 9395 3674 44 1387 561 78720
Bensheim district 2098 9434 1572 7680 3228 1885 3786 43 446 192 30364
Dieburg district 1342 9964 1326 5937 1712 2332 6421 96 503 93 29726
District of Erbach 744 8175 1525 894 1921 1649 3780 1130 699 152 20669
Groß-Gerau district 2601 13800 2951 2498 2563 784 4957 38 200 308 30700
Heppenheim district 1909 5520 1414 7895 1372 841 1852 65 208 144 21220
Offenbach district 12537 34874 6002 16680 7067 5276 3003 58 836 2523 88856
Pouring circle 1481 16796 3766 1060 6204 5781 10266 75 728 224 46381
Alsfeld district 148 3106 820 935 1179 1473 6738 529 397 107 15432
Büdingen district 740 5416 1157 299 1217 1416 6763 123 541 84 17756
Friedberg district 2100 16286 3100 4808 3429 2935 9092 69 628 871 43318
Lauterbach district 164 2975 641 574 1600 1287 4905 371 350 126 12993
Circle bulkheads 88 2572 636 64 734 659 6807 79 262 51 11952
Mainz district 3112 28740 8464 21780 4725 3075 1816 43 344 262 72361
Alzey district 95 4581 3949 3856 2567 1286 1769 36 213 34 18386
Bingen district 282 4766 3041 7710 1787 315 1642 30th 75 29 19677
Oppenheim district 110 5607 3252 5643 2710 1251 2531 55 169 24 21352
District of Worms 1212 15335 3084 8237 11778 2077 2940 48 492 66 45269
percent
Darmstadt district 3.7 40.9 8.4 4.9 23 11.9 4.7 0.1 0.7 100
Bensheim district 6.9 31.1 5.2 25.3 10.6 6.2 12.5 0.1 0.6 100
Dieburg district 4.5 33.5 4.5 20th 5.8 7.8 21.6 0.3 0.3 100
District of Erbach 3.6 39.6 7.4 4.3 9.3 8th 18.3 5.5 0.7 100
Groß-Gerau district 8.5 45 9.6 8.1 8.3 2.6 16.1 0.1 1 100
Heppenheim district 9 26th 6.7 37.2 6.5 4th 8.7 0.3 0.7 100
Offenbach district 14.1 39.2 6.8 18.8 8th 5.9 3.4 0.1 2.8 100
Pouring circle 3.2 36.2 8.1 2.3 13.4 12.5 22.1 0.2 0.5 100
Alsfeld district 1 20.1 5.3 6.1 7.6 9.5 43.7 3.4 0.7 100
Büdingen district 4.2 30.5 6.5 1.7 6.9 8th 38.1 0.7 0.5 100
Friedberg district 4.8 37.6 7.2 11.1 7.9 6.8 21st 0.2 2 100
Lauterbach district 1.3 22.9 4.9 4.4 12.3 9.9 37.8 2.9 1 100
Circle bulkheads 0.7 21.5 5.3 0.5 6.1 5.5 57 0.7 0.4 100
Mainz district 4.3 39.7 11.7 30.1 6.5 4.2 2.5 0.1 0.4 100
Alzey district 0.5 24.9 21.5 21st 14th 7th 9.6 0.2 0.2 100
Bingen district 1.4 24.2 15.5 39.2 9.1 1.6 8.3 0.2 0.1 100
Oppenheim district 0.5 26.3 15.2 26.4 12.7 5.9 11.9 0.3 0.1 100
District of Worms 2.7 33.9 6.8 18.2 26th 4.6 6.5 0.1 0.1 100

Due to the distribution of denominations, the center clearly had its party stronghold in Rheinhessen, in Upper Hesse the HBB dominated.

consequences

Otto by Brentano di Tremezzo

The newly elected state parliament met on January 29, 1925 to elect a Hessian Prime Minister. Otto von Brentano di Tremezzo tried to form a middle-class coalition of the center, the DDP, the DVP and the farmers' union. Since these four parties only had 34 seats in the state parliament, this coalition would have been dependent on votes from other parties. In the election for Prime Minister Otto von Brentano di Tremezzo only received the 34 votes of his supporter parties. In addition to the votes of the SPD, Carl Ulrich also received the support of DNVP and NSFB and received 32 votes. With its four mandates, the KPD supported neither of the two candidates, but Daniel Greiner . No candidate had received the required absolute majority. The second ballot also gave the same result.

After the attempt to form a government of the center failed, talks broke out about the continuation of the previous coalition. On March 24, 1925, the current President Ulrich (SPD) was re-elected under the pressure of a threatened dissolution of the state parliament. As a result, Ulrich II's cabinet remained in office.

literature

  • Eckhart G. Franz: Parliament in the struggle for democracy: The Landtag of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933. 1991, ISBN 3-88443-027-0 , pp. 43-44, 301-396.
  • Communications from the Hessian Central Office for State Statistics. No. 1, January 1925, p. 3.

Web links

  • State elections in the People's State of Hesse, December 7, 1924. In: Contemporary history in Hesse. online (as of March 29, 2019)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The People's State of Hesse: State election 1924 on www.gonschior.de
  2. ↑ III. State Parliament of the People's State of Hesse: Printed matter No. 4. Government proposal: State election 1924. Darmstadt December 29, 1924 ( PDF; 305 kB )
  3. ↑ The election of a Hessian Prime Minister fails. January 29, 1925. In: Contemporary history in Hessen. online (as of April 3, 2019)
  4. ^ Walter Mühlhausen: Carl Ulrich - from social democratic party leader to state president. 2003, ISBN 3-927127-50-7 , p. 12, (digitized version)
  5. ^ Eckhart G. Franz: People's State of Hesse 1918–1945. In: Handbook of Hessian History. 2nd volume, 3rd delivery, 2003, ISBN 3-7708-1237-9 , p. 899.