State election in Lippe 1933

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State election 1933
(in %)
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
39.5
30.1
11.2
6.1
4.6
4.4
4.1
EVD
Otherwise.
Gains and losses
compared to 1929
 % p
 40
 35
 30th
 25th
 20th
 15th
 10
   5
   0
  -5
-10
-15
-20
-25
+36.1
-8.9
+5.0
-5.7
+4.6
-8.0
-23.1
EVD
Otherwise.

The state election in Lippe on January 15, 1933 was the election for the 5th state parliament in Lippe , a small state of the Weimar Republic . The NSDAP emerged from the election as the strongest force.

prehistory

The held state election in Lippe election campaign was the last free before the seizure of power of the NSDAP. After the much-noticed decline in the National Socialists' votes in the Reichstag elections on November 6, 1932 , Adolf Hitler issued the requirement at the end of December 1932 to use the first election in the new year as a signal to support the claim to power for propaganda purposes. The state election in Lippe was supposed to be the turning point for the German decision or, as the Nazis said, for a “breakthrough election campaign”.

Under other circumstances the choice in Lippe would have been completely insignificant; the omens, however, gave it special weight. In the last phase of the election campaign from January 3 to 14, 1933, all of the NSDAP leaders were sent to the election campaign. Göring , Goebbels , Frick and Prince August Wilhelm appeared as speakers . Hitler himself made 17 speeches in 11 days. The final rally took place on January 14, 1933 in front of 15,000 people in Bad Salzuflen . In addition, the circulation of the Nazi newspaper Lippischer Kurier was increased from 3,000 to 30,000 during the election campaign. More than 48,000 NSDAP brochures were distributed. There was also poster advertising and loudspeaker trucks with house visitors driving through the towns. Some of the campaign slogans had local references. Using the Arminius or Hermann monument theme , the National Socialist election campaign was entirely under the slogan "Make the Hermannsland free!"

Election result

On January 15, 1933, the NSDAP finally succeeded in increasing the number of votes by 36,000 to around 39,000 compared to the previous state election four years earlier; it thus became the strongest force. The election victory in Lippe indirectly paved Hitler's way into the Reich Chancellery. After the pressure on Chancellor Kurt von Schleicher increased due to the regional success and he resigned, Hitler was appointed Chancellor on January 30, 1933.

The Lippe state government was established on February 7, 1933 by the two NSDAP party members Ernst Krappe and Adolf Wedderwille and the non-party Heinrich Klöpper . This went under throughout Germany after Hitler was appointed Reich Chancellor . The master painter Adolf Wedderwille from Lage was the party's top candidate and played the decisive role in Lippe as district leader of the NSDAP in the following years.

      
A total of 21 seats
State election January 15, 1933
Political party be right Seats +/-
NSDAP 39.5% 9 +9
SPD lip 30.1% 7th −2
KPD 11.2% 2 +1
DNVP 06.1% 1 −2
EVD 04.6% 1 +1
DVP 04.4% 1 −2
Others 04.1% 0 −5

For the elected representatives, see the list of members of the Landtag (Free State of Lippe) (5th electoral term) .

Socio-economic structure of the MPs

The proportion of women in MPs was 0%. For the first time since 1919, no women were represented in a Lippe state parliament. The vast majority of MPs, namely 16 out of 26, came from the cities, only 38.5% of the MPs came from rural communities. With 7 MPs or 26.9%, a disproportionately large number of MPs came from Detmold. The distribution according to occupational groups was as follows:

Occupational group Number of MPs
Self-employed 7th
Officer 4th
Employees 7th
Workers 6th
Pensioners and retirees 1
Others 1

literature

  • Andreas Ruppert, Hansjörg Riechert: Rule and Acceptance - National Socialism in Lippe during the war years. Analysis and documentation . Ed .: Nordrhein-Westfälisches Staatsarchiv Detmold (=  publications of the state archives of North Rhine-Westphalia, Series C: Sources and Research . Volume 41 ). Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89918-020-6 , p. 337 .
  • Jutta Ciolek-Kümper: Election campaign in Lippe. The NSDAP's election campaign propaganda for the state elections on January 15, 1933 . Verlag Documentation, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-7940-4024-4 .
  • Reinhard Wulfmeyer: Lippe 1933 The fascist seizure of power in a small German state. Bielefeld, 1987.
  • Hans Hüls: Voters and voting behavior in the state of Lippe during the Weimar Republic. (= Special publications of the natural science and historical association for the state of Lippe. 22). Detmold 1974, p. 111.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Weimar Republic 1918-1933. State elections. Free State of Lippe Valentin Schröder

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Coordinates: 51 ° 56 ′ 11.9 "  N , 8 ° 52 ′ 23.9"  E